G-Girls victory ends Tazewell’s year

While the state Senate is looking to fill a $4 billion budget hole, it’s also working to prevent concussions among student athletes. Sen. Ralph Northam, a Democrat from Norfolk, sponsored a bill that would require school systems to develop policies on handling concussions, according to a Capital News Service story. The article says the bill prohibits any student suspected of having a concussion from returning to practice or play until written clearance is given by a doctor.

I’ve been studying herd psychology. What drives us, I’d been wondering, to give up individual thought and seek refuge in mass opinion, or some collective group that promises, if we relinquish to it our freedom of mind, the risk-free safety of its numbers?

The time has come for all of us fortunate enough to be American citizens, young or old, rich or poor, Southern (the luckiest of Americans) or otherwise, regardless of race creed or color. It is time to buy American. I know we hear this constantly. Though it sometimes seems like a “Big Business” advertising ploy (and it somewhat is), it is now more than just a slogan.

A call came into a church office. The receptionist answered the phone and asked, “May I help you?

Shain Collins sentenced to life plus 54 years for robbery of local store

Students will go 35 minutes longer until further notice

Carlock named coach of year and Bryan and Brewster make first team

Basketball season extended for a few more days

Department of Education approves plan to issue waivers based on good faith effort