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DAWN CUSTALOW: THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

For all who wait For all who hunger For all who’ve prayed For all who wonder Behold... Christmas is composed of a story. A true and eternal story. Of true “Joy to the...

SCOTT DREYER: Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child

As adults, it is important to think of what messages we are giving the children...

FRED FIRST: Birds of a Feather

We were invited to join some geologist-birder friends for an outing last week that would...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Mr. President, Just Shut The H*ll Up

Nick Reiner, 32, the cocaine addicted and schizophrenic son of famed Hollywood sitcom actor, prolific...

BOB BROWN: “A Multitude of the Heavenly Host”

For many years, the Hon. B. Waugh Crigler, a former federal magistrate, taught the Men’s...

Scandal, Sex and Short Memories

Shangri-La is a fictional valley as described in a novel by British author James Hilton. The year was 1933 and the book was entitled...

H. Bruce Rinker: Walls for Nature, Bridges for Opportunity

  For politicians set on trimming budget excess and perceived necessities, there is hardly a more embarrassing boondoggle in a federal budget than a $100...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: A Little Common Sense, Please

I can’t just keep quiet about Las Vegas.  Everything that can be said about gun control has already been said—many times over—and it has...

DICK BAYNTON: Roanoke City Jail: Self-Imposed Death Sentences

One of our readers of this column sent an E-Mail message recently pointing out that the Roanoke City Jail was reportedly where an inordinate...

Barbara Leach: Late Summer Early Fall in The Garden

By far, the diagnosis for the majority of samples that were brought in to the VCE Master Gardener Help Desk lately have been weather...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Has It Been That Long?

Time has a way of collapsing on itself in retrospect.  It has been more than half century since the turbulent 1960s spilled out into...