Lifestyles
Who is guarding our city?
Farmville is a special place. It’s the home of our church fellowship, a place with friends, a place…
Lifestyles
Hamlin weathered adversity to build a life
Robert “Bob” Hamlin faced significant adversity early in his life — times when options were closed off to…
Lifestyles
The Word — Mercy is greater than death
Ash Wednesday is right around the corner. In the Christian tradition it is the beginning of the great…
Lifestyles
Grain farmers urged to watch for rapid price changes
Last year’s enormous agricultural commodity price drops due to the COVID-19 pandemic were a “black swan” event, Dr.…
Lifestyles
Money is available for food and shelter programs
Cumberland County has been chosen to receive $6,522 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the county.…
Lifestyles
Church and community events
The Church and Community Events calendar is published each Friday. Items must be submitted by 10 a.m. Monday…
Lifestyles
Lessons learned on snowy days
The snow and ice from the previous weeks have made many churches “self-quarantine” due to the weather. The…
Devotional
Where else do we go but to Jesus?
In John 6:53, Jesus says something which jars his followers. He says, “Those who eat my flesh and…
Lifestyles
Send a birthday card to Ella Mae
Ella Mae Rutherford located at 981 Trents Mill Road, in Dillwyn, VA 23936, will be turning 100 years…
Education
Make your own Longwood Rotunda
The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts is offering a take-home art activity sure to delight model building…
Lifestyles
If we could do things over, what we would do differently?
If you had it to over, what would you do? This question was asked in a survey of…
Lifestyles
Gough: A wartime commander
William “Buck” Gough Jr. joined the U.S. Army in 1984 and served into the early ’90s, including during…
Lifestyles
Young: Ever ready to serve
Justine Young leads an exciting, unpredictable life that many would find nearly impossible to manage, but she makes…
Lifestyles
Tuition aid leads to military career
A consensus among friends, some encouragement from a recruiter and a desire to help his parents pay for…
Lifestyles
‘I knew what I was doing, and I’d do it all again’
Prince Edward County resident Silas Blanton was born in the nearby Cumberland County in 1959. Growing up, he…
Lifestyles
PACE participants have a Mardi Gras celebration
Participants in the Farmville PACE (Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) traveled virtually to New Orleans to…
Lifestyles
Planting the right plants can help pollinators
Pollinators and plants have been having a love affair for more than 100 million years. Throughout that period,…
Lifestyles
Giving the best, or at least good enough
One passage that you have not heard many sermons unpacking (not surprisingly) is Acts 5:1-11, the Ananias and…
Lifestyles
Hidden figures and facets of Black history
Cainan Townsend took those interested on a tour of Black history in Farmville and Prince Edward County that…
Lifestyles
Happy anniversaries and happy birthdays
The Cumberland County Landfill Alert Committee will have its regular monthly virtual meeting Sunday, March 14, at 3…
Lifestyles
Church and community events
The Church and Community Events calendar is published each Friday. Items must be submitted by 10 a.m. Monday…
Lifestyles
Farmers learn to pivot quickly
Whether it’s shifting markets, increased competition or a pandemic, farmers are constantly faced with circumstances that cause them…
Lifestyles
It’s time to order seeds
There’s an activity I look forward to every year in the depths of winter — seed shopping for…
The Word
Inviting the Savior into our lives
For Christmas, I gave my wife a reproduction of the Minerva Teichert painting, “Christ in His Red Robe.”…
Lifestyles
Life lessons from Mary Ann
My favorite character on the old TV sitcom “Gilligan’s Island” was Mary Ann played by Dawn Wells. She…
Lifestyles
Some tips on how to overcome anxiety
It was a stressful day. Later, feeling anxious and concerned, unable to sleep, I started praying and searching…
Lifestyles
Master Gardener class offered
The Virginia Cooperative Extension Service and Heart of Virginia Master Gardeners will offer a 2021 virtual Master Gardener…