From the porch
The return of the killdeer
By Dwight Otwell
      What joy! The killdeer are back. A few weeks ago I wrote a column lamenting that I feared the killdeer weren't coming back to the Sentinel's back parking lot. I was even growing jealous that a killdeer, perhaps our Dove, was taking up with a high school right fielder.
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"Dixie Divas"
Working Mothers
By Ronda Rich
      After all the trouble I got into over last year's Mother's Day column, I won't be writing about my own mother this year. But there are lots of other mothers to write about. I have never given birth nor had any true inclination to suffer through nine months of heartburn and ...
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"Then and Now"
From Sourwood Cove
By Clarence Newton
      I drove to a gas station one morning in Jamestown, new york. My wife and I had spent the night in a downtown Holiday inn but had gotten very little sleep as a remodeling project was underway day and night. We complained to the manager and were told to come back anytime for a ...
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The O'Reilly Factor
To Protect and Serve
By Bill O'Reilly
      Well, Virginia Beach folded. In the face of growing anger from its citizenry, the city announced it will stop its "Sanctuary" policy of failing to inform federal authorities about criminal illegal aliens. The back story here is brutal.
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