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Short Rows: My, how farming has changed in a half-century

Agriculture as we know it today is on full display during the fall months as huge, specialized combines ...

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Short Rows: Barlow lived life of service to community, state

One of today’s most hackneyed phrases is “giving back.” Somewhere in most interviews with people who have done ...

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Column – Barlow lived life of service to community, state

One of today’s most hackneyed phrases is “giving back.” Somewhere in most interviews with people who have done ...

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Short Rows: Take it from an expert: Old places indeed matter

Anyone who has ever been involved in preserving old buildings or sites, whether intimately or tangentially, or for ...

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Column – Self-interested supervisors create a voting mess

Politicians rarely vote to give up any of their perceived public power, however little or great it may ...

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Column – Revenue-sharing pact headed off annexation

Second in a two-part series Read the first part here As the decade of the 1970s ended, the ...

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Column – How Isle of Wight almost became a city

For just under a half century, I was privileged to cover Isle of Wight and Surry counties, trying ...

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Short Rows: Polio returns in an age of vaccine skepticism

Polio’s back. We were terrified by the potential for contracting polio, as some of our friends did, back ...

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Column – Polio returns in an age of vaccine skepticism

Polio’s back. We were terrified by the potential for contracting polio, as some of our friends did, back ...

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Short Rows: Classified docs are nothing to thumb your nose at

Former President Donald Trump’s stashing of classified documents in his private golf club should be disturbing to all ...

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