Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Column – Reflections on Elvis and church music’s finest hour
A delightful performance by the Flatland Bluegrass Band at a recent installment of the Downtown Smithfield Summer Concert Series took me back to the church ...
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Column – Reflections on a father’s enduring influences
I’ve got an important obituary to write — on deadline, of course — but first, some quick reflections on the Rev. Ed Stewart, preacher, veteran, ...
by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 6:20 pm
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Column – Getting around is getting harder in IW
Spoiled by my three-block pedestrian commute to the office, I depend on Better Half for local traffic reports. She’d been telling me for months that ...
by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, April 26, 2022 7:46 pm
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Times, Municipal Mailer team up to inform citizens
If you live in the Smithfield town limits and subscribe to our newspaper, be sure to check out the spring edition of the Municipal Mailer ...
by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, April 12, 2022 5:47 pm
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Summer Concert Series marches into new era
John Edwards’ much-deserved retreat from professional and civic life takes another big step this year with the passing of the baton for the Summer Concert ...
by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, April 5, 2022 6:31 pm
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Little Theatre is perfect cure for date night indecision
Date nights test the creativity of married couples who’ve been at it a while. At our house, where both spouses spend the workday making decisions ...
by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, March 8, 2022 5:56 pm
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Unlikely Longwood has hoops world buzzing
With the Hokies and ’Hoos scrambling just to get on the bubble for next month’s NCAA Tournament, we hoops fans should begin thinking about our ...
by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, February 15, 2022 6:34 pm
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Tipline enables the divisiveness it aims to defeat
The thorny path to level-headed consensus about what Virginia’s schoolchildren should be taught about race and sexuality mustn’t go down rabbit holes. That’s where Gov. ...
by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, February 8, 2022 4:46 pm
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Groupspeak is ill-advised ‘protocol’
Perhaps the most overrated goal in governance is unity. That’s not to endorse the partisan toxicity that grips today’s Washington, D.C., where Democrats and Republicans ...
by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, January 18, 2022 5:05 pm
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Could blue wave hit red Isle of Wight?
Wouldn’t it be something if Isle of Wight County, perhaps the reddest of Tidewater localities, was represented entirely by Democrats in Richmond and Washington, D.C.? ...