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Letter – Wild West in Surry

Editor, The Smithfield Times: On July 18, I attended the Surry County Board of Supervisors working session.  Supervisor ...

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Letter – Solar math is lacking

Editor, The Smithfield Times: According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Form 923 as of July, seven of ...

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Editorial – Big blow for IW’s economy

Devastating news of the loss of one of the community’s major employers — Keurig Dr. Pepper, formerly Green ...

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Column – Morgart’s Beach Hotel was the place to be

The old photographs published on this page during the past three weeks have depicted scenes from Isle of ...

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Letter – About infrastructure

Editor, The Smithfield Times:    Watching the video of the Smithfield Planning Commission’s July 9 meeting demonstrates a disturbing ...

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Letter – ‘Total waste of the land’

Editor, The Smithfield Times:    Peter K. Acker was spot on with his letter (“Opposed to solar farms,” July ...

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Letter – Long white elephant

Editor, The Smithfield Times:    The fence by the new Royal Farms in Bartlett is unappealing and needs a ...

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Column – Summer dam building was child’s play in simpler times

Children raised on farms in the 1950s, and probably many decades earlier, were much like beavers. If they ...

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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 ...

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Editorial – Smart move by Foods owners

Smithfield Foods’ planned return to a publicly traded company makes sense for a lot of reasons, but an ...

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