Opinion

Column – Local agriculture got a lot of ink during its heyday

During much of this newspaper’s life, Smithfield was the center of a prosperous agricultural community, and week after ...

Opinion

Column – Iconic farm images faded with Smithfield’s transition

Smithfield has become something new and decidedly different during the past several decades. As both the town and ...

News

Column – Halloween is a special night on Main Street

One of the most popular public events ever staged at what the public popularly calls Times Square is ...

Opinion

Column – Tidewater dialect, like others, slowly fades in wired world 

Modern communications as well as the mobility of Americans since the mid-20th century has brought us prosperity as ...

Opinion

Column – Some country truisms never get old

I miss a number of things about farm living in the 1950s, but none more so than listening ...

Opinion

Column – Gambling’s many forms have common thread: addiction

If gambling’s your thing, Virginia’s determined to scratch your itch. It took a half century of evolving General ...

Opinion

Column – Patient, gentle Charlie Horse was farm kid’s delight

I guess every country boy wanted a pony. What farm kid didn’t back then?  Santa Claus never saw ...

Opinion

Column – Town Council has history of keeping tradition alive

Smithfield has some wonderful eateries, several of which are on Main Street, but there will never be another ...

Opinion

Column – Hard work remains to form a ‘more perfect union’

The chair in which George Washington sat as he presided over what would become the Constitutional Convention of ...

Opinion

Column – Much to ponder in latest statistics on hate crimes

Some state as well as local officials have contended, during the past couple of years, that racism is ...

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