Grateful Boomers
Boomers head to Three Ridges
BY KATHERINE BROOKS Special to The Farmville Herald Staying on their toes at all times, the Grateful Boomers exercised their minds and bodies on two ...
Guest Columnist, Author at Farmville
DEVOTIONAL
Devotional: Walk worthy of Christ
If you had a choice, what would you want your last words on earth to be? Jesus actually got that opportunity twice! Before both His ...
by Guest Columnist, Friday, April 5, 2024 4:28 pm
OPINION
Dove Standley: Being seen on a ‘Day of Visibility’
March 31, the International Transgender Day of Visibility since 2009, uplifts the lives of Transgender people. As that was this past weekend, I’d like to ...
by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, April 3, 2024 12:30 pm
Columns
Farmville Pride: Let’s consider trans voices in music
The International Transgender Day of Visibility is observed on March 31st, and this article intends to celebrate that by expressing gratitude for the increasing trans ...
by Guest Columnist, Friday, March 29, 2024 5:32 am
TAMMY MULCHI
Tammy Mulchi: Looking back and ahead
Getting back home after the General Assembly has been quite an adjustment. I am trying to catch up on my business duties, my non-profit, and ...
by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, March 20, 2024 12:30 pm
TAMMY MULCHI
Tammy Mulchi: We came, we voted and left ‘Sine Die’
The 2024 General Assembly Session is a wrap! After sixty days of proposing, debating, and pushing through legislation, on Saturday, we went into “Sine Die,” ...
by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 12:30 pm
OPINION
How do you manage a pond in spring? Here’s some help
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of monthly columns by Cooperative Extension agents in our area, offering help for different projects and ...
by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 12:15 pm
DEVOTIONAL
Devotional: What are you looking at?
What are you looking at? I’d like you to think with me not so much about our physical eyes, but about what we look at ...
by Guest Columnist, Thursday, March 7, 2024 5:10 pm
Guest Column
Moton Museum: There are awards and events to mention
We enter Women’s History Month on the back of a very busy Black History Month at Moton. From K-12 schools and the Girl Scouts of ...
by Guest Columnist, Thursday, March 7, 2024 5:01 pm
OPINION
Edward Strickler: ‘The sayings of the sepulchral sage’
Through daily walks in 2023, my husband and I picked up 17 cubic yards of litter in Farmville, enough to overfill 4 standard ‘4 cubic ...
by Guest Columnist, Thursday, February 29, 2024 12:00 pm
TAMMY MULCHI
Tammy Mulchi: Let’s talk about the budget
Wow! What a week. I had the opportunity to vote on the budget and work on bills passed by the House this past week. This ...
by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, February 28, 2024 12:26 pm
Farmville
Review: Waterworks audiences see Hursey’s vision in ‘The Vagrant’
The Waterworks Players Community Theatre production of The Vagrant, a full-length play written by Longwood University’s Dr. Brett Hursey, is marvelous from start to finish. ...
by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, February 28, 2024 12:53 am
Cumberland
Every exhibit in Cumberland has a story to tell
By Barbara Gamage Special to The Farmville Herald Every exhibit tells a story. And that’s especially true at the Cumberland County Historical Society, where the ...
by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 16, 2024 12:39 pm
Columns
Dr. Witherspoon: Get it right
One must remain on the cutting edge. There was a new technique available for removing the gallbladder. They could now remove it using a thin ...
by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 16, 2024 10:17 am
TAMMY MULCHI
Tammy Mulchi: Crossover is finally here
After weeks of hard work, we have finally crossed the halfway point in the General Assembly. But make no mistake, we are about to get ...
by Guest Columnist, Thursday, February 15, 2024 12:00 pm
OPINION
Edward Strickler: ‘The mystery of the forlorn photos’
In my earlier column, you might remember I mentioned trash that my husband and I found around the area. Let’s talk some more about litter. ...
by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, February 14, 2024 12:00 pm
MOTON MUSEUM
Moton Museum: Barbara Johns had something to say…and so do we
Happy Black History Month from the Moton Museum. We anticipate a very busy month here at Moton. Make sure you schedule your visit soon! On ...
by Guest Columnist, Sunday, February 11, 2024 7:01 pm
WATERWORKS PLAYERS
Director Tsigaridas, I presume?
By Craig Challender Special to The Farmville Herald For The Waterworks Players, 2023-24 is becoming a season of “firsts.” Last October, “Godspell” was both Waterworks’ ...
by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 9, 2024 6:21 pm
DEVOTIONAL
Devotional — Christianity: Rules within relationship
Today I want to talk about how rules connect with relationship in Christianity. What is your view of Christianity? “Christianity is just another religion full ...
by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 9, 2024 7:45 am
TAMMY MULCHI
Tammy Mulchi: I want everyone to get a world-class education
The General Assembly continues to move along. Bills are passing out of the Senate and moving to the House. Some bills moving through the process ...
by Guest Columnist, Thursday, February 8, 2024 12:30 pm
Dr. Witherspoon
Diagnostic dilemma
A gentleman had suffered for years with right leg pain. An MRI of his lumbar spine demonstrated spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal canal. ...
by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, February 7, 2024 2:43 pm
Guest Column
Tammy Mulchi: Things are moving fast in Richmond
The General Assembly is now in high gear. Committees are meeting and hundreds of bills are being considered. Full sessions of the Senate are getting ...
by Guest Columnist, Sunday, February 4, 2024 10:24 am
BUSINESS
STEPS moves forward with plan for supportive housing project
People all over the region can testify to the need for the latest project from STEPS. Take 64-year-old Gregory Greene, who said he’d been in ...
by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 2, 2024 2:36 am
Buckingham
Letter to the Editor: HB636 needs to be dismantled
Let’s talk about HB636. Not long ago, the government tried to pass laws in Virginia to take control of private land if that land had ...
by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 2, 2024 12:12 am
Buckingham
Letter to the Editor: Renovations are needed in Prince Edward
In your Dec. 22 edition of The Farmville Herald, I read two letters to the editor criticizing the Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors for ...
by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 2, 2024 12:04 am
Columns
Edward Strickler: Farmville deals with ‘the case of the telltale litter’
There is a lot of litter around Farmville. Maybe most people don’t ‘see’ it. But once my husband and I started ‘seeing’ it everywhere, we ...
by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, January 31, 2024 7:37 am
Guest Column
Farmville Pride: Here’s why we need this in Central Virginia
Let’s talk about Farmville Pride. My life consists of eighteen years growing up and coming of age in the sun and shadows of Farmville, eighteen ...