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Posted on Jan 17, 12:00 AM
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Reader question: A few years ago I started seeing flashes of light when I went outside around dusk, and wiry spots floating in my left eye. I also got headaches from light - especially fluorescent lights. I thought I might have a partially detached retina, but my doctor said my sinuses caused the problem. I don't really notice the floaters anymore, but I still see flashes of light - like lightning - at dusk. What can cause this? 
Posted on Jan 16, 12:00 AM
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Blame gets pointed in many directions for the shortcomings of our nation. Violent video games are rotting our children's brains. Guns and grenade launchers need to be regulated out of the hands of all criminals who would use them illegally. The mentally ill need to be cataloged and tracked to keep them from committing violent acts.
Posted on Jan 16, 12:00 AM
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There is a bill in the Virginia House that should be of local interest. The "Freedom to Farm Without Fear," aka the Boneta Bill (HB 1430), is being offered to remedy the kind of treatment Martha Boneta in Fauquier County and others have been getting from their local government.
Posted on Jan 12, 12:00 AM
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Following a brief period of land speculation, roughly from 1727-1732, the site that would become Front Royal gained its greatest early boost: a ferry.
Posted on Jan 5, 12:00 AM
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Are you ready to bid farewell to 2012? Are you ready for New Year's resolutions? Are you ready to self evaluate the year that's passed?
Posted on Jan 4, 12:00 AM
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Even though the "big day" is over for another year, the impact and meaning of Christmas continue to endure. That's because Christmas is the celebration of the birth of one who has changed our world for the better more than any other person who has ever lived.
Posted on Jan 3, 12:00 AM
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On the Saturday following Christmas, the called-for snow had not begun when I let the dogs out. However, before all the coffee was finished, it had. It moved in with a low, heavy sky that obscured Powell Mountain and slowly the individual flakes covered the tops of tree limbs, the boxwoods, the shoveled drive, everything, to give Red Hill a new look of softness and peace.
Posted on Dec 29, 12:00 AM
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Students at Westlake High School in Saratoga Springs, Utah, have a message for the world. You want to change it? Just remember it all starts with "the one."
Posted on Dec 27, 12:00 AM
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This morning, Mickey, the male beagle did not wake us in the cold dark wanting to go out. For whatever reason he slept in until the first light of day was breaking over Powell Mountain.
Posted on Dec 19, 5:47 PM
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By Roger Barbee In thinking of the carnage in Newtown, I recalled a science fiction short story by Robert Sheckley. In "The Gun Without a Bang," Sheckley tells the story of Dixon, an astronaut who sees armaments as the way to victory. In Dixon's mind, the winning of the American West was nothing but a struggle between bows and arrows and the Colt. Dixon is sent to explore a small planet, and is given a new weapon to try out. His new weapon does not fire a bullet, but disintegrates matter in a cone-shaped flare. It makes no noise, but kills silently. Shortly after landing on the planet, Dixon is set upon by wild animals like monkeys. He uses his new weapon, but in doing so discovers that without a noise, the attacking animals do not sense the danger. In his panic, he mistakenly disables his spaceship and its communication hardware. He is stranded and surrounded by animals that have no fear of his disintegrator. Sometime later, a rescue operation is sent to see what has happened to Dixon on the isolated planet. He is found alive, rather well in fact, and using the disintegrator as a hammer to drive...
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