The numbers are beyond comprehension for the global catastrophe that continues to unfold in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven human deaths. Thirty species of birds and more than 400 species of other kinds of wildlife threatened. At least 3 million gallons of oil, creating an oil slick that’s 130 miles long and 70 miles wide [...]
Friends, following my last column in which I described the increased population of rodents in my neighborhood as a burgeoning concern, I was offered a variety of advice from our readers. Along with the usual recommendations to go back from whence I came, it was suggested that I might consider employing a feline contractor to [...]
It is now officially the middle of summer—not the weatherman official but the Goose Creek local-native official middle of the summer. And so it will be six more weeks until fall begins. This practical fact few people know, because they don’t know how to read the spiders. Every morning we walk the AT—the Annie Trail—that [...]
We should not define ourselves by our profession or by our children or by where we live or by how much money we have or by any external circumstance. Who we really are is defined in our Spirit, which is given and cultivated by God. But certainly all these external circumstances help to build our [...]
Hey Mister, can you help me out? I need a fix. Can you lend me $5 for a Big Mac? In a newly released study, the Scripps Institute in Florida has concluded something we all sorta suspected: junk food may be as addictive as cocaine. In the study, researchers monitored the brain activity of rats [...]
Were you to walk through Sabrina’s and my home to its end, you would find yourself in our ‘animal room.’ This is where injured, orphaned, or diseased critters are in-taken and housed until we’re sure they can be moved to outside cages prior to release. If you step outside that room, there is a small [...]
Hunting Hills defeated Roanoke Country Club 16,193 to 15,143 to capture the city-county meet Friday and Saturday at the Salem YMCA and secure their eighth straight RVAA season championship. Read Mountain won the Division 2 championship, edging out Our Lady of Nazareth. The Elks Club took Division 3, while Spring Run took home the Division [...]
The First Tee Programs from West Virginia and Roanoke Valley were part of Tuesday’s inaugural Greenbrier Classic Youth Day in White Sulphur Springs. Kolton Cooper of Hardy was selected to represent First Tee Roanoke Valley along with one member of First Tee of West Virginia. Each was paired with a player in the Greenbrier Classic [...]
This is to refute the recent propagandized information provided to our area citizens from a “green” money- motivated industry, posing as a “green” energy hero. A Chicago-based corporation, “Invenergy”, proposes to lay claim to our area mountain winds, beginning with 18 industrial-sized wind turbines on Roanoke County’s Poor Mountain. Wind energy is best captured with [...]
If you were to take a drive along Interstate 8 in Arizona, many miles north of the border, you would very likely come upon signs, placed by the U.S. government, warning travelers of possible danger including drug and human smuggling, armed criminals, and other suspicious activities. The signs, which have been placed by the Federal [...]
