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Today's News

  • Coach Watts kicking off new program

     Liberty High School Head Football Coach Chris Watts announced that he'll host the first meeting of All Pro Dad this Thursday, Sept. 10.

    It will take place at the Liberty High School cafeteria and will run from 7:15 - 7:45 a.m.  

    The program is designed to help out those in fatherhood roles.  It was started up by some NFL personalities, including Tony Dungy and Mike Tomlin.  It is designed to stregthen families and provide support to those males who are in a parenting role.  So, grandfathers, uncles, step-dads and others are more than welcome.

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  • Commonsense changes that should be included in health care reform

    While we can all agree that our current health care system is flawed there are many different ideas about how to fix it.  Democratic Leaders in Congress have introduced and rushed through committee, the “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act”.  This one-size fits all proposal would steer the country toward a government-run health care system likely marked by little choice and long lines.  I oppose this bill and the Democrat Leadership’s mad rush to ram the bill through with no opportunity for alternative ideas.  Even commonsense amendments to th

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  • Virginia veterans benefits

    Last month the first of two articles concerning benefits available from the Commonwealth of Virginia for veterans and in some cases survivors and dependents was published in this newspaper.  This month the second and final chapter on this source of benefits is presented.

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  • McDonnell thesis wakes up governor’s race

        The Virginia governor’s race (yes, folks, there is another campaign this year) was a rather boring affair until someone discovered the Republican candidate’s graduate thesis.

        Democrat Creigh Deeds and the GOP’s Bob McDonnell were limping along at summer’s end, seemingly to very little notice from voters. (Is it just me, or do the two of them even look a little bit alike?).

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  • NPS should take in D-Day Memorial

        I have a coffee table book at home that lists, day by day, what was happening in World War II from Hitler’s invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, until Japan’s surrender on Sept. 2, 1945. It also has lots of photos. The book has its shortcomings. I spotted a few misidentified photos and there are a couple of entries that may not be precisely accurate, but these are minor. The chronology plus the photos makes it valuable to me. One photograph shows an Iowa Class battleship firing a full nine-gun broadside.

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  • 'Faults' start

    Liberty slipped easily into the dramatic mode one would expect from a trip to Broadway.  After a wrenching first half, the Minutemen regrouped to post all of its points in the second half en route to a 28-20 win.

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  • Vikings loot, plunder Forest

    It was painful.

    For the Jeff Forest players on the field, the pain was physical.  

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  • Cave Spring floods Staunton River

    Staunton River’s season got off to a resounding thud, as the Eagles were blanked by a super-charged bunch from Cave Spring.

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  • Dog has his day

    Scott “Cujo” Sigmon toyed with his opponent for a couple of rounds before sending him to the canvas early in the third round.

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  • Pretty petty

      Just because I’m not invited to vote in the AP Writers’ College Football Poll doesn’t give me license to be petty.

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