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Column – Smithfield’s back door is much busier than IW officials imagined

Most country folks tend to use their back doors as their front doors. That’s the entrance nearest the ...

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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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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. ...

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Column – New highway marker brings overdue recognition

Virginia’s African American history has all too often been overlooked, misinterpreted or just plain ignored. That made the ...

Opinion

Leaner hogs led to big growth for Smithfield Foods

I have always found the pork industry fascinating. Partly, I suppose, because we raised a few hogs as ...

Opinion

Column – Protect and strengthen Virginia’s sunshine law

This is Sunshine Week, a little-known observance of our right to know what government is doing. It’s been ...

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Column – Statue preserves an immigrant family’s beautiful story

It has been said until it has become our most overused cliche that we are a nation of ...

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Column – Military service is declining, and America is worse for it

A rather humorous encounter with Medicare a week or so ago reminded me of the growing absence of ...

Opinion

Amid the snow drought, memories of the Circus Blizzard

Snow has rarely been a significant problem in Isle of Wight and Surry, though Surry is a bit ...

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Column – Amy Palmer was a happy, and effective, warrior

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was led nationally by some amazing people, men and women who ...

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