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Safe Haven For The Night By Doug Pifer My wife and I often look out the kitchen window at our big, white martin house these days. A flock of seven bluebirds appears around five o’clock or so each evening. Back and forth they fly to the martin house, perch on the porches, and look in […]
The Future of History By David Lillard It’s a late September afternoon, and the wind is whirling. That hurricane moving north from the Gulf wasn’t expected to hit hard in Clarke County, but the horizontal rains and leaves blowing past the window make you wonder if the forecast has changed. You pull out your smart […]
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What We Can Learn From Third Graders I’ve been reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals about President Lincoln and his cabinet. In every chapter, it seems, there is an account of a long speech by a public figure that drew a thousand people or more—often in towns no bigger than Boyce or Millwood. […]
The Natural Mane: Mind and Body Wellness By Ethan Vaughn This team of stylists has seen rock stars, red carpets, rollouts, and runways, but now they have their sights set on a new target: Berryville. “I decided on Berryville because there was no other salon and spa here,” said Romey Michael, owner of The Natural […]
By Doug Pifer The crowd gasped as the released hawk flew strongly to a perch twenty feet up a tree. After looking around to get its bearings, it launched itself once again and flew away across the countryside. The group had assembled at Claytonville Farm, near Millwood , to witness the release of a red-tailed […]
One Christmas when I was in grade school, I received a letter from a local charity thanking me for a donation. I was more than a little puzzled because I hadn’t made a donation, and had no idea what the group did. Actually, I’d never even heard of giving to charity at all. This was […]
By JiJi Russell As the holiday season picks up momentum, I have been pondering many topics of health and wellness to find a nugget of advice that might help people find balance and ease during the “season of joy.” When I consider the landscape of copious social interactions, abundant food, busy shopping—and keeping pace with […]
After several months of having no pharmacy in downtown Berryville, the town will see the opening of two in December and January. Both will be pharmacies in the traditional sense: rather than operating as small grocery or general stores, each will focus on prescription services, patient care, over-the-counter medicines, and health-related products. First to open […]