Tickets are still available for the U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band Concert on Friday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. at the Wytheville Meeting Center. There is limited seating for the free event sponsored by the Wytheville Enterprise.

My father brought my sister a bike home in the back seat of the tan Oldsmobile when I wasn’t quite 5 years old.
She was 9 and I think it might have been her first bike. It was a girls bike, with a banana seat and little iridescent streamers poking from the handlebars.

Drug reps deliver the goods

It’s all the government’s fault.
Most of the time, hearing that all-too familiar cry, we cringe. We don’t necessarily believe that the government owes us anything or should provide us anything other than a few basic freedoms, such as the right to assemble and petition for a redress of grievances. The freedom to worship or not worship as we so choose. Those sorts of things. The government isn’t to blame when it does what it’s supposed to do. And there lies the problem.

Fighting with faith and fists—Part II

What’s under your bed?

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Carrying family heritage forward

Area woman writes about her struggles

I couldn’t finish my “autumn fire” series without airing some smoke on a topic that burns me up. That’d be the season’s campaign attack ads. If they’ve irritated you this year, wait till next.