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Local artisans are helping to prolong the existence of a tulip poplar tree that once stood beside Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.

The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia.

Deep-frying. Wood-smoking. Sous vide (the French vacuum-packing technique). The mind-numbing number of suggestions for mining flavor from the typically unforgiving Thanksgiving bird have proliferated in recent years.

Organized religion was already in trouble before the fall of 2008. Denominations were stagnating or shrinking, and congregations across faith groups were fretting about their finances. The Great Recession made things worse.

Occasionally the distribution or status of a specific bird will change. We are familiar with that phenomenon here in Central Virginia.

Simon and I probably need an intervention.

With swine flu still running rampant across the country, students and adults who used to drag themselves to school or work while sick are suddenly being told they need to stay home. That push to prevent others from being infected, though, can have unintended consequences as a Hawaiian woman found out Monday at Tampa International Airport.