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TAMMY MULCHI

Tammy Mulchi: We came, we voted and left ‘Sine Die’

The 2024 General Assembly Session is a wrap! After sixty days of proposing, debating, and pushing through legislation, on Saturday, we went into “Sine Die,” ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 12:30 pm

OPINION

How do you manage a pond in spring? Here’s some help

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of monthly columns by Cooperative Extension agents in our area, offering help for different projects and ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 12:15 pm

DEVOTIONAL

Devotional: What are you looking at?

What are you looking at? I’d like you to think with me not so much about our physical eyes, but about what we look at ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Thursday, March 7, 2024 5:10 pm

Moton Museum Cainan Townsend

Guest Column

Moton Museum: There are awards and events to mention

We enter Women’s History Month on the back of a very busy Black History Month at Moton. From K-12 schools and the Girl Scouts of ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Thursday, March 7, 2024 5:01 pm

Edward Strickler trash

OPINION

Edward Strickler: ‘The sayings of the sepulchral sage’

Through daily walks in 2023, my husband and I picked up 17 cubic yards of litter in Farmville, enough to overfill 4 standard ‘4 cubic ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Thursday, February 29, 2024 12:00 pm

TAMMY MULCHI

Tammy Mulchi: Let’s talk about the budget

Wow! What a week. I had the opportunity to vote on the budget and work on bills passed by the House this past week.  This ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, February 28, 2024 12:26 pm

Waterworks

Farmville

Review: Waterworks audiences see Hursey’s vision in ‘The Vagrant’

The Waterworks Players Community Theatre production of The Vagrant, a full-length play written by Longwood University’s Dr. Brett Hursey, is marvelous from start to finish. ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, February 28, 2024 12:53 am

Exhibit

Cumberland

Every exhibit in Cumberland has a story to tell

By Barbara Gamage Special to The Farmville Herald Every exhibit tells a story. And that’s especially true at the Cumberland County Historical Society, where the ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 16, 2024 12:39 pm

Dr. Witherspoon

Columns

Dr. Witherspoon: Get it right

One must remain on the cutting edge. There was a new technique available for removing the gallbladder. They could now remove it using a thin ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 16, 2024 10:17 am

TAMMY MULCHI

Tammy Mulchi: Crossover is finally here

After weeks of hard work, we have finally crossed the halfway point in the General Assembly. But make no mistake, we are about to get ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Thursday, February 15, 2024 12:00 pm

OPINION

Edward Strickler: ‘The mystery of the forlorn photos’

In my earlier column, you might remember I mentioned trash that my husband and I found around the area. Let’s talk some more about litter.  ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, February 14, 2024 12:00 pm

Moton Museum

MOTON MUSEUM

Moton Museum: Barbara Johns had something to say…and so do we

Happy Black History Month from the Moton Museum. We anticipate a very busy month here at Moton. Make sure you schedule your visit soon! On ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Sunday, February 11, 2024 7:01 pm

Director Tsigaridas

WATERWORKS PLAYERS

Director Tsigaridas, I presume?

By Craig Challender Special to The Farmville Herald For The Waterworks Players, 2023-24 is becoming a season of “firsts.” Last October, “Godspell” was both Waterworks’ ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 9, 2024 6:21 pm

DEVOTIONAL

Devotional — Christianity: Rules within relationship

Today I want to talk about how rules connect with relationship in Christianity. What is your view of Christianity? “Christianity is just another religion full ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 9, 2024 7:45 am

TAMMY MULCHI

Tammy Mulchi: I want everyone to get a world-class education

The General Assembly continues to move along. Bills are passing out of the Senate and moving to the House. Some bills moving through the process ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Thursday, February 8, 2024 12:30 pm

Dr. Witherspoon

Diagnostic dilemma

A gentleman had suffered for years with right leg pain. An MRI of his lumbar spine demonstrated spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal canal. ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, February 7, 2024 2:43 pm

Guest Column

Tammy Mulchi: Things are moving fast in Richmond

The General Assembly is now in high gear. Committees are meeting and hundreds of bills are being considered. Full sessions of the Senate are getting ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Sunday, February 4, 2024 10:24 am

Grateful Boomers

Buckingham

Grateful Boomers head up to Bear Den Mountain

They indulged! Isn’t that what happens on New Year’s Eve? On New Year’s Eve, the Grateful Boomers set out from Curdsville and first indulged in ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Saturday, February 3, 2024 1:24 am

STEPS Israel Hill right plant

BUSINESS

STEPS moves forward with plan for supportive housing project

People all over the region can testify to the need for the latest project from STEPS. Take 64-year-old Gregory Greene, who said he’d been in ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 2, 2024 2:36 am

Letter to the Editor Buckingham supervisors Cumberland FFA foster

Buckingham

Letter to the Editor: HB636 needs to be dismantled

Let’s talk about HB636. Not long ago, the government tried to pass laws in Virginia to take control of private land if that land had ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 2, 2024 12:12 am

Prince Edward Elementary crisis plan elementary renovation

Buckingham

Letter to the Editor: Renovations are needed in Prince Edward

In your Dec. 22 edition of The Farmville Herald, I read two letters to the editor criticizing the Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors for ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Friday, February 2, 2024 12:04 am

Farmville

Columns

Edward Strickler: Farmville deals with ‘the case of the telltale litter’

There is a lot of litter around Farmville. Maybe most people don’t ‘see’ it. But once my husband and I started ‘seeing’ it everywhere, we ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Wednesday, January 31, 2024 7:37 am

Farmville Pride

Guest Column

Farmville Pride: Here’s why we need this in Central Virginia

Let’s talk about Farmville Pride. My life consists of eighteen years growing up and coming of age in the sun and shadows of Farmville, eighteen ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Sunday, January 28, 2024 2:27 pm

Guest Column

Tammy Mulchi: A look at my first week in the Assembly

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of columns from newly elected Virginia State Sen. Tammy Mulchi, detailing her first session in office. ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Friday, January 26, 2024 2:26 pm

Moton Museum

MOTON MUSEUM

Cainan Townsend: Moton Museum will be making history again

Happy New Year from the Moton Museum. As 2023 ended, we had much to be grateful for. Now the year 2024 brings many things to ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Friday, January 12, 2024 12:00 pm

Guest Column

Tom Noehren: Making the case for electing a Kennedy

Ballot access wasn’t the intended topic for this, but recent events couldn’t be ignored.  Almost every state in America only guarantees ballot access in federal, ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Friday, January 5, 2024 5:39 pm

Prince Edward schools Farmville Pride

YOUR TURN

Farmville Pride: Give the gift of love and acceptance

Meagan Irving is writing this month’s column for Farmville Pride. The holidays are amongst us and for many, they bring thoughts of togetherness and family ... Read more

by Guest Columnist, Thursday, January 4, 2024 12:00 pm

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