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Just finished reading the article Coalfield Sports posted on Facebook that Brady Hess wrote a few years back. If that doesn't get your blood pumping for some good Friday Night football nothing will. Gosh it feels good to have it back! Good luck to all the area teams.

My local PTSA is advertising the Commonwealth's sales tax holiday as a great time to purchase school supplies. Want to guess one of the primary funding sources is for k-12 education in Virginia? Yep. That's right. Sales tax. Am I the only one who questions the logic here (even just the smallest of smidgens)?

This has been something my wife and I have had a good chuckle about for a few years now. We're amazed at the number of ways our society continues to marginalize education. All one needs to do is look to social media to see the consequences. "The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance." ~ Benjamin Franklin ~

That boy is good at stuff.

I believe 39, what I was told.

I like it when my neighbors all gripe about the costs of materials and wonder why they have to pay all kinds of fees and charges for school related programs. I want to say, "It's because you're clearly signalling to the 'conservatives' that you elected to public office that you'd prefer to pay more out of your own pocket than you ordinarily would in taxes -- and you're also willing to put up with substandard school resources as a direct result." But I don't. Because I'm nice like that.

Not germane to the coverage area, but Liberty-Bedford's numbers are down. Freshmen through seniors reported for first day of practice today and I counted about 35 players total.

That's a stretch...