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Don’t Believe Everything You See

By Blue Ridge Leader

By Mark Dewey
April 10, 2009
Ting-Yi Oei, assistant principal at Freedom High School in South Riding, recently endured an ordeal that might serve as a cautionary tale about the ascendancy of image over text in modern culture. Is a picture really worth a thousand words anymore? Or has proliferation made them cheap and tawdry now? Both… »

Agro-Depot Lends a Hand

By Blue Ridge Leader

March 27, 2009
By Mark Dewey
This morning’s news left me pondering two different kinds of value, real and false—or maybe it’s two different kinds of people.
I read that Obama decided to give bankers $2 trillion to cover their bad debts—not all bankers, just the ones that tried to make money out of nothing and wound up… »

I Want Someone to Like

By Blue Ridge Leader

March 13, 2009
By Mark Dewey
During these hard times, when individuals, communities, and entire nations are forced to choose what they will keep and what they must let go, theater seems more generous than ever. For a couple of hours every night, stage actors set themselves aside, allowing characters who wouldn’t otherwise exist to inhabit their… »

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State of the Towns talk at the Carver Center by Philip Denino with guest speaker Donovan Rypkema. Philip Denino is Community Development Manager with the Department of Economic Development. "When thinking of the downtown area parking should not be a priority, pedestrians are the priority," Mr. Rypkema said. "Governments are supposed to think about the whole."