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Downtown concert canceled due to Tornado Watch
Friday night’s installment of the Downtown Smithfield Summer Concert Series was canceled after the National Weather Service placed Isle of Wight County under a Tornado ...
Steve Stewart, Author at Smithfield Times
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
From the inbox: an inspirational cat story
Regular readers of Dispatches know I’m a sucker for a good cat story. On my list of retirement projects one day is to fictionalize “The ...
by Steve Stewart, Wednesday, January 15, 2025 3:58 pm
Editorial
Editorial: On Christmas Eve, a classic poem
With publication of this week’s edition falling on Christmas Eve, we can’t resist reprinting the classic poem by Clement Clarke Moore. We wish all of ...
by Steve Stewart, Monday, December 23, 2024 10:33 am
Isle of Wight County
Federal officers descend on Foursquare Road home; property owner arrested on weapons charge
An Isle of Wight County man faces a federal weapons charge after authorities swarmed his home on Foursquare Road following a nearly two-year investigation by ...
by Steve Stewart, Wednesday, December 18, 2024 5:35 pm
Isle of Wight County
Town returns $6 million to Luter III; son says new council’s support vital for Grange to be built
The Town of Smithfield has returned $6 million to former Smithfield Foods Chairman and philanthropist Joseph Luter III at his son’s request. Joseph Luter IV, ...
by Steve Stewart, Monday, December 2, 2024 2:33 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Column – What to watch in aftermath of Town Council election
Five things we’re watching after last week’s Smithfield Town Council election: Whether Bill Riddick continues as town attorney. Riddick may step aside gracefully with the ...
by Steve Stewart, Friday, November 15, 2024 5:24 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Column – What we know — and don’t — about Times building
Countless emails and phone calls in support of keeping The Smithfield Times on the iconic Main Street site it has occupied for a century are ...
by Steve Stewart, Wednesday, September 18, 2024 6:58 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Column – Again with emphasis: Infrastructure is inadequate
Steve Bowman nailed it in October 2022 when he declared the 800-plus-home Mallory Pointe residential development a worthy project that was ill-timed. Bowman, speaking at ...
by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, July 30, 2024 6:59 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Column – At least one safe space from national politics
The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump over the weekend makes easy a decision I’ve been contemplating for a year or more: to make ...
by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, July 16, 2024 5:01 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Column – To accept $6M or not: a question with lots of nuance
Even in our current world of absolutes, with little room allowed to ponder shades of gray, the following can all be simultaneously true: Joe Luter ...