David and Ann Ledgerwood agree that one of their greatest pleasures is retreating to the front porch swing in the summer with their mandolin and guitar. “Ann plays the mandolin and I strum the guitar,” said Ledgerwood, “and we talk about our day and count our blessings.”

Ratchet Arnold ran into the barn singing.nbsp; He was wilder than a bluegrass fiddler dancing with a talking lizard on a television commercial.nbsp; So loud was he that he woke Old Blue Rosenbloom from his mid-morning nap.

A veteran of Wytheville theatre, singer/actor Nathan Alston has been busy in Greensboro, N.C., as owner, producer and artistic director of the Naroshmi Theatre Company, where he has just completed a run at the Barn Dinner Theatre in Greensboro starring in his own musical drama, Dreams of a King: The…

The town of Wytheville will have a year’s free use of an electric car for municipal purposes. Its parking enforcement officer will be the designated driver. At Monday night’s meeting, Wytheville Town Council approved an agreement with Evatran LLC, developer of systems used for recharging electric…

What’s Latin for spelling bee champion? Davis Little has good reason to know the answer. The Scott Memorial Middle School seventh-grader and county spelling bee winner credited part of his recent academic success to earlier study of the ancient language that plays a part in the words used today.

The same stories keep repeating themselves, Delegate Ward Armstrong said Saturday. They’re the stories of people trying to make ends meet on reduced salaries being shocked by a $500 power bill. It’s the story of the woman wearing hats and gloves indoors to keep heating bills down, even as the bills…

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Piney and She Who Must Be Obeyed had joined a group of organizations to go to all of the museums and shows of non-commercial vintage, and so this week went to MOSI, which translates as the Museum of Science and Industry, which is a big mouthful.

It was after midnight last Friday, and I was asleep when the phone rang. It is rarely pleasant to get a late-night call that awakens one from a sound sleep. This was the kind one dreads.

I have a truck. To be honest, compared with most of the trucks around town it is not much of a truck. It is old and has too many miles on it. Sometimes the truck has a hard time getting started.