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Sundari Morgan: Expressing yourself can help build self-esteem

March is Women’s Month, and the topic of “female empowerment” is all the rage, but how do we ...

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Mike Wilson: A story about namesakes

I was once told that I was named Michael after my mother’s favorite great uncle Mike Omar, who ...

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Letter to the Editor: A return to Mt. Trashmore

Dear Editor, A Buckingham County concerned citizen did a spot viewing on Google Earth of the growing environmental ...

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Letter to the Editor: Think small, not big

Dear Editor, I read with interest your recent article on Farmville’s population and its relationship to attracting big ...

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Letter to the Editor: Rights based ordinance is viable

Dear Editor, After learning about the many communities that have been prevented from protecting themselves through zoning law ...

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Frank Ruff: Horse before the cart

There is an old expression, “don’t put the cart before the horse.” Sadly, if one does, either the ...

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Chambers: Seven things the Lord hates

This is taken from Proverbs 6:16-19. There are seven things that the Lord hates and cannot tolerate. A ...

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Letter to the Editor: Green Ridge landfill still not needed

Dear Editor, “Where does the Green Ridge landfill project stand?” was front page news in the February 22 ...

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Mike Wilson: Scouting days

I loved Scouting. I “went the distance” from Cub Scout on the first day I was eligible to ...

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Letter to the Editor: County continues to waste taxpayer money

Dear Editor, In its continued mindless management of taxpayer money, Doug Stanley and county officials have decided to ...

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Crystal’s Clear View: A time to celebrate women

Editor’s note: International Women’s Day was Wednesday, March 8. It’s a beautiful spring day, and women worldwide are ...

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Tommy Wright: Remember this November

When Republicans were given the majority in 2021, Virginians did so with the expectation that we would keep ...

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Frank Ruff Jr.: Understanding science and pressure science

I have written in the past that things would go much better in the General Assembly if every ...

Columns

Mike Wilson: Lick Creek days: The bream rock

As a sexagenarian, I have lost almost all of my enthusiasm for baking outdoors in the summer midday ...

Letter to the Editor

Opinion

Letter to the Editor: What do we want our town to be?

Dear Editor, I attended the “PUD” meeting 2/13/23 at the Moton Museum building, and came away with these ...

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Tommy Wright: When session ends, the campaign begins

The 2023 regular session of the Virginia General Assembly adjourned sine die on Saturday, February 25. Saturday’s adjournment of ...

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Mike Wilson: Vehicles I have known and not necessarily loved

There is an arresting and memorable image in “Sensation of Velocity,” a Vanguardist poem from the 1920’s by ...

Letter to the Editor

Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Why I endorse John McGuire

Editor’s note: Prince Edward , Buckingham and Cumberland counties are all in the new 10th District for the ...

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Letter to the Editor: Buckingham needs to take another step

Dear Editor,  On Feb. 13, the Buckingham Supervisors voted to send to the Planning Commission a request to ...

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Frank Ruff: The good and the ugly

We are now in the closing days of the 2023 session. This is the time in the session ...

buck fever

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Mike Wilson: Here’s some variations on buck fever

I shot my first deer as an adult in Virginia about 35 years ago. Here’s a story of ...

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Letter to the Editor: It’s time to end the legal battle

Dear Editor, Your Feb. 16 article about the Prince Edward County Confederate flag issue was quite revealing. “This ...

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Letter to the Editor: We need some answers, not silence

Dear Editor, At the Jan. 17 meeting, the new GOP dominated electoral board in Buckingham County promised an ...

Farmville Downtown Partnership

News

From the Editor’s Desk: What should the future of Farmville be?

Aldi said no. It wasn’t a maybe. It wasn’t a ‘we’ll see’ or ‘I’ll let you know’. When ...

Prince Edward schools

Education

From the Editor’s Desk: Virginia schools need answers, not delays

You can always tell when something’s not a priority. People give big speeches, we hear how much they ...

Opinion

Mike Wilson: Lick Creek days: My river family

After I recently lectured to a Hispanic culture class about the profound importance of “fictive kinship” (social bonds ...

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Letter to the Editor: Incompetency and hypocrisy in Buckingham

Dear Editor, The Buckingham Board of Supervisors were recently forced to buy back the Knight Valley property for ...

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