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Column – Trailways once would pick you up at your house
One of my earliest recollections is of a Trailways bus stopping in front of our house on a ...
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Letter – Much worse off four years later
Editor, The Smithfield Times: Some people seem to think that repeating a lie makes it somehow true. From ...
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Letter – Age isn’t the real issue
Editor, The Smithfield Times: Many octogenarians are competent and sharp mentally. That’s a fact. To say you would ...
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Letter – Don’t widen Nike Road
Editor, The Smithfield Times: I read the letter to the editor in the April 3 edition (“Infrastructure realities”) ...
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Editorial – Merchants need your support
Once or twice a year in this space, we remind our readers of the importance of supporting locally ...
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Letter – Infrastructure realities
Editor, The Smithfield Times: The March 20th edition of The Smithfield Times offers many proposals about what infrastructure ...
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Letter – Classical education’s value
Editor, The Smithfield Times: Of all the forms of education available today, classical education stands apart from the ...
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Letter – He agrees with Mary
Editor, The Smithfield Times: Hurray for Mary Batten! In her March 27th letter to the editor, titled “Let’s ...
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Editorial – IW Planning Commission makes right decision on warehouse project
Chalk one up for the people. The Isle of Wight County Planning Commission sent a strong message that ...
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Column – Early Times publisher had an entrepreneurial spirit
Community newspaper publishers during much of the 19th and early 20th centuries were printers as well as journalists. ...