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Growing up on her grandparents’ farm in Southwest Virginia, Brenda Robinson made mischief dismantling her granddad’s rail fence and building a cabin from the boards. Fifty years later, she’s president […]
When we read about the middle-class squeeze, we tend to think blue collar — the machinist who used to make $25 an hour now making $15, the vocationally trained worker […]
Borrowing its moniker from the matriarchal maid in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the four-man band known as Calpurnia hasn’t taken long to make a name for itself around town, frequenting […]
-5Police Chief Rodney Monroe makes it official: He’s offered the job, he takes the job, he’s moving to Charlotte, N.C. Let’s hope our bat signal is bright enough to be […]
Presidential races always bring a flurry of new voter registration, but 2008 is shaping up to be a particularly active election year. The State Board of Elections reports that as […]
Whether intentional or not, Chris Dovi’s article “Look Away, Look Away” (Cover Story, May 7), conveys the fragility of the fabric of community generally. In analyzing specifics, the urgency with […]
The Beatles’ “Abbey Road,” released in 1969, is a cultural touchstone that people can’t stop touching. Tourists still flock to the street corner where the iconic album cover was shot, […]
Afraid of Me?A reader has asked that I call attention to the frequent and incorrect use of the pronoun myself. She objects to its use in sentences such as, “They […]
Despite the apparent anointment by Mayor L. Douglas Wilder as his successor, Robert Grey Jr.’s potential candidacy for mayor is already the talk of the town.Much of the early conversation […]
Perhaps a merciful God will one day forgive comedian Greg Morton for directing episodes of one of the most injurious cartoons to ever desecrate Saturday morning, “Hammerman.” (The show detailed […]
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