Opinion
Letters to the Editor for 4-15-09
To the Editor:
As the Williamsburg Independent School PRIDE Coordinator I would like to thank the following personnel for making 2009 PRIDE Clean-up effort such a HUGE success!
News Journal delivering up-to-the-minute news on our new website
News reported when it happens. Not tomorrow, the next day or next week...but now. That's what the News Journal is delivering to you on its new Web Site at thenewsjournal.net/.
With new website, I feel like the Wizard of Oz
I’ve watched The Wizard of Oz, like, a million times. I love the movie. Even read the book. When Dorothy and her dog Toto, the lion, the scarecrow and the tin man reach Oz they finally meet the wizard. Everyone knows what happens then. At first he seems larger than life and very mystical - a disembodied holographic head floating in the air surrounded by gouts of steam and flame; a huge booming voice that seems to come from everywhere when he talks.
Readers respond with ideas to make The Arena a better place
Last week in this column I heaped praise and compliments on The Arena and deservedly so. I mentioned only one complaint and that was the noise from the concourse area during the Gaither concert.
Old Williamsburg going by the wayside with new projects
If you haven't walked or driven down the streets of Williamsburg lately, then you probably ought to stop and take a look at how things were while you still have the chance
Blood drive for Rafferty becomes tribute
Friends of Charles "Chuck" Rafferty described him as a happy-go-lucky guy who always had a smile on his face.
W’burg man charge with arson, attempted murder
A Williamsburg man is behind bars for attempted murder and arson after allegedly setting a car on fire early Saturday morning in Mud Creek.
No reason to be bored. Ten things you can do locally in 2009
I'm often perplexed at how people view their own communities as boring and dead when I see them much differently ... rife with opportunity and excitement.
It’s a little bit of radio, TV and newspaper rolled into one
It is not uncommon for a subscriber to the News Journal from a distant state to call us saying that they didn't get a certain issue of the paper or that they only got one section or that it takes w
