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Column – ‘Genuine Smithfield Ham’ gone forever, or is it?
The Spanish brag of their serrano and the Italians their prosciutto, as well they should. And, in recent ...
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Column – On the eve of Black History Month, meet two IW giants
Each generation has its giants, and here in Isle of Wight County, they have been abundant. Black History ...
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Column – Pagan is cleaner, but population growth still pollutes
Last in a series The Hampton Roads Sanitation District sewer line has opened the door to a flood ...
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Column – Sewer line opened the floodgates for IW growth
Isle of Wight’s residential growth didn’t begin with a sewer line through Carrollton. The Hampton Roads Sanitation District ...
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Column – History of growth in IW? Just follow the sewer
The late Elsey Harris, who was Smithfield’s town manager during the 1970s and ’80s, dreaded the kind of ...
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Column – Technology has done much good, but may be our undoing
We are — young and old— beset by electronic distractions. You need only walk into a restaurant and ...
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Column – IW, Surry still remember reason for the season
Now that dumpsters are chock full of gift boxes, Styrofoam packaging and other detritus of Christmas Day, we ...
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Column – 50 years on, this and that about 1973 in Smithfield
Several months ago, a friend asked me to write some notes about Smithfield in 1973, material she could ...
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Column – Old photo dispels assumption about Pagan bridge
I am always on the lookout for old maps and old photographs of our area, both of which ...
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Column – Childhood’s Thanksgiving dinner memories endure
Thanksgiving always brings back childhood memories, and it did again this past week. There was a time, I’m ...