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Congrats to all the winners of the 2007 Virginia Press Association awards. Results were announced over the weekend in Roanoke. The results are now online.

I was filled in on some good news the other week. I’ll be heading to Roanoke, Va., in mid-March to accept a Virginia Press Association award. It’s a bit hush hush still. The exact award and the story that won it aren’t announced until a banquet at the association’s yearly conference. Thank you all though […]

From the Jan. 31, 2008 Daily News-Record: 
HARRISONBURG - It was Dan Wessner’s first great surprise.
One of Rachel Spory’s, too.
They had just arrived in Iran -a nation that many in the West view with suspicion and fear - as part of a delegation created by the Mennonite Central Committee. Wessner, a professor, and Spory, a recent […]

You’ll now find a running list of del.icio.us links in the right column of the site. I’ve been adding a mix of news, but especially the work of other writers I’ve loved.
The update is somewhat inspired by Howard Owens, a media blogger, who recently posted a list of objectives for today’s “non-wired” journalists. He writes:
“I […]

A few years ago, I walked into a dressing room, backstage from a pageant. It was one of the first I had ever covered. I watched as a mother combed mascara through the lashes of her little girl, a baby no more than 2 months old who was about to go on stage and […]

After the umpteenth request for a few recent photos, I submit:

Papa and I at home in Enschede. We blame him for this whole Holland thing.

Two beautiful churches in downtown Enschede, not Escalade (ahem, Larry …)

My parents, outside a lovely little church in a German town I can’t pronounce. Obergammerau? maybe?

This is a Paul, a […]

The town of Broadway, a smidge north of Harrisonburg, challenged the U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimate and won. It was one of four towns in the U.S. to do so this year. I wrote the story for the Daily News-Record on Friday. Today, the Assocated Press picked the copy up, rewriting it for a broad […]

Today, through the editor’s grapevine I hear, “Kelly, we need a story on the PS threes tonight.” So I nodded, “Oh yeah, of course. Sure thing.”
Truth be told, I didn’t know what a PS threes was. We planned to talk about it, but calls came in, meetings started and other news beckoned.
Plan B: Walk over […]