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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...