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Possum Philosophy: Home and shopping holiday mishaps
So here we are, staring a new year square in the eye. I have to say, I do hope it is better than the one we are just finishing up. I don’t think I remember a more difficult one. In fact, I doubt that anyone born after the Great Depression (late 1920s to early 1930s) will remember a more challenging situation economically. After all, it has been a long, long time since…
Column: Hold onto Christmas story when coping with post-holiday blues
Schools face funding cut
Column: Hold onto Christmas story when coping with post-holiday blues
I am depressed. The depression did not sneak up on me. In fact, I planned to be depressed. Christmas is now gone by two days. I planned to be depressed when it left.
Schools face funding cut
For months, Washington County Public School officials have been worried about a proposed cut in funding for schools across the state. On Dec. 17, that fear came with a number - about $3.1 million for the 2009-10 school year. The school system is also facing an upwards of $300,000 cut for the 2008-09 school year. “Any time we get a decrease, we don’t like it,” said…
A brand new Abingdon
FROM THE DOGTROT: Happy new year
A brand new Abingdon
A swooshing checkmark with the words “Just Do It” in tow usually makes people think of expensive sports shoes.
It’s called branding.
FROM THE DOGTROT: Happy new year
I was able to enjoy a white Christmas this year…a really white Christmas.nbsp; Southeastern Michigan was hit with its most intense snowstorm in 25 years.nbsp; Twelve inches of snow fell in a matter of hours and carpeted the area in white.nbsp; While it caused myriad difficulties, the beauty was spectacular. Living in Washington County has shown me many kinds of natural…
HEART BEAT: Happy New Year, and Then Some
Business going to the dogs
Eatin’ along the Crooked Road
HEART BEAT: Happy New Year, and Then Some
If pressed, I’ll say I have one resolution for this New Year:nbsp; to wear more blue.
Business going to the dogs
Self service has come a long way these days.
There’s a place to wash your car, a place to wash your clothes and now, a place to wash your pet.
Scrub-A-Dub Doggie owner Debra Short said it’s really not a new idea.
“(Pet washes) are really popular in the cities,” she said.
Eatin’ along the Crooked Road
Orange cake is what Elaine Davis of Lee County told of. At Christmastime when she was young, in the 1960s, she remembers getting an apple, orange and splitting a peppermint stick between her 13 sisters and brothers.nbsp; After Christmas, when all the oranges were eaten, her mom collected the orange peels and dried them on the wood burning stove. Around New Years Davis’…
I MADE IT UP: Alternative Sports Events
I MADE IT UP: Alternative Sports Events
While I have no training as a cultural anthropologist, it is clear to me that football is a vestigial legacy of the Puritans.nbsp; Long after the Puritans were absorbed into the rest of the culture, a need for pain and self-deprivation remained.nbsp; Why else would people sit out in the freezing cold, watching other, fully clothed people play in the snow.nbsp; Why else…
Winter weather results in 100+ wrecks Friday morning
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Winter weather results in 100+ wrecks Friday morning
A Virginia State Police dispatcher counted in excess of 100 wreck reports across Washington, Smyth and Wythe counties Friday morning as cold, misting rain continued to fall and freeze in places at 11 a.m.
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