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Dispatches from Wharf Hill

Column – Just how tall are your lottery odds?

Perhaps you bought a ticket last month when the Mega Millions lottery jackpot exceeded $1 billion. If you did and, like hundreds of millions of ... Read more

by Steve Stewart, Thursday, August 11, 2022 7:39 pm

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Dispatches from Wharf Hill

Column – Reflections on Elvis and church music’s finest hour

A delightful performance by the Flatland Bluegrass Band at a recent installment of the Downtown Smithfield Summer Concert Series took me back to the church ... Read more

by Steve Stewart, Thursday, July 14, 2022 1:35 pm

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Column – Reflections on a father’s enduring influences 

I’ve got an important obituary to write — on deadline, of course — but first, some quick reflections on the Rev. Ed Stewart, preacher, veteran, ... Read more

by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 6:20 pm

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Column – Getting around is getting harder in IW

Spoiled by my three-block pedestrian commute to the office, I depend on Better Half for local traffic reports. She’d been telling me for months that ... Read more

by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, April 26, 2022 7:46 pm

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Times, Municipal Mailer team up to inform citizens

If you live in the Smithfield town limits and subscribe to our newspaper, be sure to check out the spring edition of the Municipal Mailer ... Read more

by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, April 12, 2022 5:47 pm

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Summer Concert Series marches into new era

John Edwards’ much-deserved retreat from professional and civic life takes another big step this year with the passing of the baton for the Summer Concert ... Read more

by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, April 5, 2022 6:31 pm

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Little Theatre is perfect cure for date night indecision

Date nights test the creativity of married couples who’ve been at it a while. At our house, where both spouses spend the workday making decisions ... Read more

by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, March 8, 2022 5:56 pm

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Unlikely Longwood has hoops world buzzing

With the Hokies and ’Hoos scrambling just to get on the bubble for next month’s NCAA Tournament, we hoops fans should begin thinking about our ... Read more

by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, February 15, 2022 6:34 pm

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Tipline enables the divisiveness it aims to defeat

The thorny path to level-headed consensus about what Virginia’s schoolchildren should be taught about race and sexuality mustn’t go down rabbit holes. That’s where Gov. ... Read more

by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, February 8, 2022 4:46 pm

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Groupspeak is ill-advised ‘protocol’

Perhaps the most overrated goal in governance is unity. That’s not to endorse the partisan toxicity that grips today’s Washington, D.C., where Democrats and Republicans ... Read more

by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, January 18, 2022 5:05 pm

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