Opinion

Halloween reminds how our lives have changed

I’m not sure how parents are going to handle Halloween this year, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but ...

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Amid the political chaos, reason for optimism

I cannot imagine, at this point, that there are more than a relative handful of Americans who are ...

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A picturesque view disturbed, horrifically

Isle of Wight’s bicycle trail is intended to extend from the Carrollton Nike Park to Windsor Castle Park. ...

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Proud to see Smithfield Times soldiering on

The Smithfield Times marked its 100th anniversary with a public reception and music on the “green” last Thursday. ...

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Newsrooms are vanishing, and journalism is worse for it

Good journalism doesn’t just happen. It’s the product of research, fact checking, more research and, in time, carefully ...

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Coming of age on a transistor radio

The essentials of life to a teenage farm boy in the late 1950s were a cold Coca Cola, ...

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Modern America asks only, ‘What’s in it for me?’

Too much time spent at home rather than in an office working can lead to some bad habits, ...

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Hager, Batten left their marks on state, community

Virginia lost an increasingly rare person — a political moderate — when John H. Hager died Aug. 23. ...

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Remembering Tidewater’s amusement parks of yesteryear

I sympathize with the young families who have missed out on an entire season of thrill rides at ...

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Voting requires careful study by those who do it right

It’s an age-old complaint, and those of us who pay even the slightest attention to politics have heard ...

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