Consider the odds

First of all, let me be clear, I’m fully vaccinated. I got both doses of the Moderna vaccine as soon as I could and I was losing patience at the time I had to wait. My wife got her vaccine before I got mine and I was glad she did. To me, the decision was…

A dire shortage of people willing to work

Saturday morning I had to go to Roanoke for an MRI on my back. I plugged the address in my GPS, set the cruise control at the speed limit, and sipped my coffee as I headed up the road. Pre-covid I used to go out and eat breakfast every once in a while and one…

Appalachian Power’s technical shortfall is shocking

First of all, my wife and I live in the city and we obviously have city power at home. The WHEE studios uptown are in the city and so I have city power there also. But the transmitter site for WHEE is on Appalachian Drive (the road named after Appalachian Power) in the county and…

They want his death to bring light

I covered a city council meeting in Feb. when a lady came up to the podium to address council. It was during the time when matters from the floor are allowed. She was nervous, but she gathered her thoughts and made an impassioned plea for council to put up a stoplight at the intersection where…

Fire destroys house on Askin Street in Martinsville

Neighbors from across the street were visiting when the occupants of a house at 1027 Askin St. in Martinsville smelled smoke around 8 p.m. Tuesday. Martinsville Fire Department and EMS responded to a 911 call, but fire spread quickly through the roof and totally destroyed what was home to seven people. “There were no injuries,…