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Museum honors Black families who’ve made IW better 

The Schoolhouse Museum began as an opportunity to preserve one of the little rural school buildings that once ...

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Plants ushered out on-farm commercial slaughtering

Editor’s note: This is the final column in a four-part series on the origins of the century-old hog ...

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Area’s first slaughterhouse drew surprising response

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a four-part series on the origins of the century-old hog slaughter ...

Opinion

Federal regulation altered local ham industry forever

Editor’s note: This is the second in a four-part series on the origins of the century-old hog slaughter ...

Opinion

Pork processing’s local roots date back four centuries

Editor’s note: This begins a four-part series on the origins of the century-old hog slaughter industry in Smithfield. ...

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With deer population out of control, beware ticks

Winter activities for young farm boys in the 1950s included long hours spent in the woods. We particularly ...

Opinion

Bless the postal workers who serve faithfully

Sitting in the Hamtown Barbershop chair Monday morning, I had a good view of a process I’ve observed ...

Opinion

Memories of 1977 deep freeze and other January misery

January is not my favorite month. As a general rule, it’s then that we expect the worst of ...

Opinion

Numbered districts don’t mask gerrymandered mess

Isle of Wight County’s supervisors have elevated the concept of gerrymandering to a level that should be embarrassing ...

Opinion

Season of renewal is more welcome than ever 

Celebration of a new year is among the oldest traditions practiced by man for the simple reason that ...

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