Steve Stewart, Author at Smithfield Times
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Five things we’re watching after last week’s Smithfield Town Council election: Whether Bill Riddick continues as town attorney. Riddick may step aside gracefully with the ...
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by Steve Stewart, Friday, November 15, 2024 5:24 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Countless emails and phone calls in support of keeping The Smithfield Times on the iconic Main Street site it has occupied for a century are ...
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by Steve Stewart, Wednesday, September 18, 2024 6:58 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Steve Bowman nailed it in October 2022 when he declared the 800-plus-home Mallory Pointe residential development a worthy project that was ill-timed. Bowman, speaking at ...
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by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, July 30, 2024 6:59 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump over the weekend makes easy a decision I’ve been contemplating for a year or more: to make ...
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by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, July 16, 2024 5:01 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Even in our current world of absolutes, with little room allowed to ponder shades of gray, the following can all be simultaneously true: Joe Luter ...
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by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, July 2, 2024 7:06 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Amid their outrage over the “leak” that wasn’t, three Smithfield Town Council members lamented broken trust within the body. To hear Valerie Butler, Jim Collins ...
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by Steve Stewart, Wednesday, June 26, 2024 6:58 pm
Sponsored Content
The click of computer keys and spin of slots. The bright colors lighting up the screen accompanied by upbeat music. The rush of adrenaline when ...
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by Steve Stewart, Wednesday, May 29, 2024 11:11 am
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Isle of Wight in 2024 feels a lot like Suffolk in 1974 — at a crossroads, a choice between suburbia and a rural, quaint bedroom ...
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by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, May 28, 2024 6:05 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Keep America Beautiful reports that significant progress has been made in reducing litter on U.S. roadsides since 2010. Far too much remains here in Smithfield. ...
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by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, May 7, 2024 5:05 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Smithfield’s leadership class struck me as oddly desperate last fall as the controversial Grange at 10Main floundered in the face of intense opposition from citizens ...
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by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, April 2, 2024 6:30 pm
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