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Smoking cigarettes is harmful to your health and others around you. Selling cigarettes illegally is harmful to your financial health, and you could find your butt sitting in a jail cell for a long, long time. comments 0

There's a tremendous buzz of excitement and anticipation going around our community about some special visitors to Winchester and Shenandoah County this week. comments 0

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Letters to the Editor

Sexual orientation determined by birth Editor: The president's announcement that he approves same sex marriage focuses renewed attention on the status of the millions of gay and lesbian people among us. The overwhelming finding of research is that the sexual... comments 5

God is opposed to homosexuality Editor: Leonard Pitts, in his op-ed piece "The Bible and Homosexuality (May 4), cites a video by 22-year-old Matthew Vines, "The Gay Debate: The Bible And Homosexuality," in his contention that some "hide inside the... comments 4

Dominion Power should hire more local workers Editor: I represent electrical workers in the Shenandoah Valley. Approximately 400 qualified, unemployed electricians live within a 50-mile radius of the Dominion natural gas plant project site. They are taxpaying Virginia citizens willing... comments 33


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More changes are afoot here at the Daily. comments 0

More Editorials

Cheers to Strasburg High School students and residents for coming together this week to offer comfort and support for students injured in a single-vehicle crash on Mount Hebron Road on Saturday. comments 0

The annual National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's nationwide "Click It or Ticket" campaign is under way through Memorial Day weekend. comments 3

Virginians like to read, according to amazon.com's most well-read cities in America list released earlier this week. The list comes from sales information for book, magazine and newspaper sales in print and Kindle format since June 1, 2011. Amazon found... comments 1

Strasburg police deserve high praise for quickly recognizing a potentially dangerous situation in town this week. comments 0

Have you noticed more people riding bikes this week? May is national Bike Month and today is National Bike to Work Day. comments 0

Congratulations to Woodstock resident John Billings, who was named Virginia Pilot of the Year by Angel Mid-Atlantic. Billings has flown more than 150 patients to where they needed to go for treatment. comments 0

A hearty round of applause goes out to the Rotary Club of Woodstock for donating $8,000 in scholarships to Lord Fairfax Community College. comments 1

Strasburg residents may be fussing a bit after July 1 when they receive their water, sewer and trash bills. comments 1

The U.S. Postal Service's new plan to keep rural post offices like those at Fishers Hill and Star Tannery open fewer hours a day rather than closing them completely is expected to save about $500 million a year once it's implemented by 2014, but it won't be enough to save the nearly bankrupt system. comments 0

The Morgan Ford Road low-water bridge, built over the Shenandoah River in Warren County in 1925, is in poor condition, does not meet today's design standards and at times is impassable due to flooding, which makes it dangerous. comments 0

An Internet search on drug company fines turns up page after page of news stories about drug giants facing hefty fines for various activity - so many, in fact, that one can't help but wonder if fines - and probation - are enough to keep them in line. comments 2

A tragic accident that claimed the lives of two West Virginia residents on Friday evening may have been avoided if other choices had been made. comments 0

You absolutely can't say there isn't anything to do this weekend. Just take a look at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival schedule on B6 in today's Northern Virgnia Daily. comments 0

The Daily looks at print circulation and Web traffic to gauge how we're doing each month. What our print circulation report does not provide is how many of our readers are looking at a particular story - we know how many have purchased the paper that day, but not what they are reading. Our online reporting is more exact - we know how many pageviews each story receives. It's interesting - and sometimes surprising - to see what bubbles up to the top as the most popular local news stories online. comments 0

Everybody complains about the weather, but there's little you can do short of moving from the area. comments 0

Two young local Boy Scouts learned this week that the way you dress can distract from your message. comments 4

About 75 tornadoes touched down in Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Nebraska in a 24-hour period this past weekend. Some fatalities were reported, but sternly worded warnings like this from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center - "mass devastation is highly likely" - may have saved lives as residents of those states kept their weather radios on and closely monitored weather news on television and on their smartphones. comments 0








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