April 30, 2007
Comment on Monday's local commentary and letters
Tending our gardens
Ray Stubblefield
It's been a rough couple of weeks around here. After experiencing one of the warmest winters on record, April follows as one of the coldest. Normally, I have to fire up the woodstove a few times in the morning to take off the chill, but for two weeks I had it going nonstop. I burned more wood in April than I did in January.
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Roanoke, don't make the Chapel Hill mistake
Sam G. Riley
Get rid of the "weenie stand"? Displace half the City Market vendors? Good grief, Roanoke civic leaders, whatever are you thinking? I write not as a Roanoke resident, but as a frequent visitor to the Star City from Blacksburg. Like many of our fellow Blacksburgers, my wife and I very much enjoy our visits to the market area and the wonderful flowers, produce and other items sold in its outdoor stalls. We like meandering from vendor to vendor, stopping for lunch or, if we're there later in the day, enjoying a glass of wine and then staying for dinner.
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Monday's letters can be read here.
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