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Frank Ruff: Looking at employment 17 years later

Seventeen years ago, Delegates Kathy Byron and Clark Hogan and I, after extensive research, concluded that Virginia’s training ...

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Mike Wilson: Let me tell you about my father

My good father died of mesothelioma in 1992 at the age of 57 — much too young — ...

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Letter to the Editor: We need to pick up our trash

A Styrofoam carry-out box labeled B.L.T. sounded good after a couple of hours of hard labor. Salivation commenced ...

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Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Metallic mining in the comprehensive plan

I want Buckingham County residents to know that on Thursday, May 15, the Buckingham County attorney, EM Wright, ...

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Letter to the Editor: The allegations don’t make sense

Dear Editor, I would like to respond to the article entitled “What Triggered the Issues” from the May ...

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Tommy Wright: Let’s honor our veterans

The Virginia General Assembly passed legislation in the 2023 session that will provide relief for Virginia Veterans. While ...

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Thomas Jordan Miles III: Let’s talk about elections in Buckingham County

Free and fair elections are one of the prime pillars to the democratic experiment that began in 1776. ...

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Frank Ruff: We need to rethink energy

Recent polling shows that, when asked, most people are in favor of green energy if the question is ...

Farmville

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Mike Wilson: Well, Farmville, let’s talk about words we need

Sometimes, Farmville, there are certain words you need in a conversation. As a linguist and foreign language teacher, ...

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Letter to the Editor: Why focus only on fire departments?

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part letter to the editor from the Buckingham County Firefighters ...

Letter to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Providing answers to a few questions

Editor’s note: Tom Garrett won the Republican nomination for the Virginia House District 56 seat during the party’s ...

Letter to the Editor

Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Buckingham Republicans, reclaim your party

What has transpired over the last several months with regards to the Board of Electors in Buckingham County ...

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Frank Ruff: Dealing with debt

Much attention has been given to the national debt lately. Sadly, it is an issue that should have ...

Farmville

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Mike Wilson: Here we go, Farmville, another Gar in the boat

Well, Farmville, I guess you could say I had a way of getting myself into unusual predicaments when ...

President Reveley

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Michael Evans: First decade of President Reveley drives momentum

Longwood is concluding its 184th year. Virginia’s third-oldest public university has much to celebrate, here in America’s first ...

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Frank Ruff: Let’s talk about right and wrong

Most of us were taught at an early age the difference between right and wrong. Sometimes that lesson ...

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Letter to the Editor: Let’s talk about priorities

Dear Editor, Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you know two inmates escaped from Piedmont and ...

fire departments

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Firefighters Association sets the record straight

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part letter to the editor from the Buckingham County Firefighters ...

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Mike Wilson: Where there’s a will, there’s a Wayne

I pretty much retired from dove hunting when the state opened up the “resident goose season” several years ...

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Brian Vincent: PUDs: Why here and why now? Pt. 2

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part column from Farmville Mayor Brian Vincent, detailing the thoughts ...

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Quentin R. Johnson: We need to honor our nurses

Florence Nightingale, who was born on May 12, 1820, earned respect and renown for the transformative contributions she ...

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Brian Vincent: Why Farmville is considering PUDs

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part guest column from Farmville Mayor Brian Vincent, going over ...

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Tommy Wright: We must lock up the killers

As Speaker Gilbert wrote last week, there is a silent killer terrorizing Virginia, taking an average of 35 ...

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Mike Wilson: The dusty old stuff on my middle shelf

In my office at the college there is a large bookcase right behind my desk that houses four ...

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Howard Gregory: Why I support John McGuire

John McGuire is an exceptional candidate for the Virginia Senate. There are three areas I will focus on: ...

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Letter to the Editor: Keeping the status quo is a bad idea

Dear Editor,  On Wednesday, April 19, Heidi Dhivya Berthoud presented, as requested, to the Buckingham Planning Commission (PC) ...

Guest Columns

Tommy Wright: Social media madness

Parents matter. That was one of our major themes in 2021, and it looks like it’s going to ...

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