Having a thorn in the side is sometimes useful for an elected body in helping it maintain perspective. Sometimes it’s just a thorn being a tho…
In my opinion, a majority of voters in Sullivan County have never supported West Ridge High School, and it will be a long time, if ever, that …
There’s an old maxim that goes, “A problem well defined is a problem half solved”. This is so true in the transformation of your community, in…
For the first time in its more than eight decades of surveying Americans’ religious attitudes and practices, church members constituted only 4…
The Tri-Cities labor market appears to be shaking off a tepid close to 2020 and the beginning of the new year. February’s local labor market r…
Dwindling tax revenues, record unemployment and rising costs have left municipalities across the country with severe budget shortfalls. In res…
There are times when it feels like 1970. It was a year of turmoil, demonstrations, and racial strife. So here we are, 50 some years later, and…
Editorials
Having a thorn in the side is sometimes useful for an elected body in helping it maintain perspective. Sometimes it’s just a thorn being a tho…
For the first time in its more than eight decades of surveying Americans’ religious attitudes and practices, church members constituted only 4…
Dwindling tax revenues, record unemployment and rising costs have left municipalities across the country with severe budget shortfalls. In res…
Every year the Boone Lake Association conducts a one-day cleanup of the lake by hundreds of volunteers, but this year's effort will be especia…
Gate City High School is known throughout Virginia as a sports powerhouse. But it's not just athleticism that makes Gate City and Scott County…
A meeting on the last-minute plan for traffic flow at West Ridge High School revealed that it can't be completed before the school opens in August.
Some words carry emotional force such that using them creates an immediate negative reaction on the part of the listener or reader. That makes…
