Dispatches from Wharf Hill
IWCS critics might get more help from guv than board
An overhauled Isle of Wight County School Board, which will have seen four of its five seats change ...
Latest Opinion
In The Short Rows
Parade, other Smithfield Christmas traditions evolve
Traditions die hard, but some do die. Those traditions that survive are usually ones that can evolve and ...
Editorial
Ease regulation of medical marketplace
The die might well be cast on the rejection of Riverside Health System’s current plan to build a ...
Letters To The Editor
Jericho Road smoother, safer
Editor, The Smithfield Times: The recent well executed paving of Jericho Road is a very welcome development. One ...
Letters To The Editor
Pleased with Riverside stay
Editor, The Smithfield Times: I would like to take this opportunity to share my recent experience at Riverside ...
Editorial
Internet, cellular lagging in IW
A few months back in this space we heaped praise on Surry County officials for showing Virginia the ...
In The Short Rows
Obits are longer — and better — than in the old days
There have been huge changes in journalism since I first walked into a newsroom in the mid-1960s — ...
Letters To The Editor
Be heard on IW hospital
Editor, The Smithfield Times: We understand that on Dec. 10 Dr. Norm Oliver, commissioner of the Virginia Department ...
Letters To The Editor
Too soon for ‘burnout’ days
Editor, The Smithfield Times: My wife and I don’t have children in the Isle of Wight school system, ...
Letters To The Editor
Transparency still lacking
Editor, The Smithfield Times: On Sept. 22, I received an email from the Isle of Wight County administrator ...