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Earl Hamner Jr. visited his namesake theater in Nellysford for a reading Thursday from his new novel and a book-signing.

Self-regulation may be the key to success in school and college, according to researchers.

Each Thanksgiving season, a few unlucky Americans manage to burn down their houses trying to deep fry a turkey.

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.

For many people, all of those creatures with six or eight legs fall into the general category of bugs. Most of us don’t give these organisms too much thought and when we do consider them at all, it is generally in an unfavorable light. It may come as a surprise that the whole ecosystem is actually dependent upon these small animals. In fact, with over a million species, it is the arthropods that make up the vast majority of the named living things on earth.

We call them “tumbleweeds.” Those loosely formed balls of dog and cat fur that roll merrily across the hardwood floors can be found no matter how diligently my husband and I vacuum. But I shudder to think what the house would look like if we did not regularly groom our pets. Tumbleweeds the size of small cars would surely eat us alive.

STAUNTON - With nothing to lose but green pigment, dozens of Shenandoah Valley tourism professionals submitted guesses Thursday for the exact day, hour and minute that leaves will show peak color this year.