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From Monday’s Daily News-Record:
Man Shares Kidney With Co-Worker
By Kelly Jasper
BRIDGEWATER — A year ago, Rick Shifflett’s doctors offered a word of advice.
“They told me I needed to start making friends again,” the 58-year-old Bridgewater man said with a laugh.
Shifflett, his doctors told him, would need a kidney transplant.
It came as no surprise.
Shifflett was already […]

Zoning ‘Dangerous’ For Roads?
 By Kelly Jasper
BROADWAY — As new town residents, the Sneads knew just where to voice their concerns about traffic outside their home on Early Drive.
The town annexed the street along with 260 acres at the start of the new year, adding the Sneads to Broadway’s growing population. They’re part of […]

Gunsmith Unearths Buried Treasure
Wealth Of History Discovered Inside 1740s Musket
By Kelly Jasper
SINGERS GLEN — Finding the blackened, broken musket was at least, at first, Scott Musser’s buried treasure.
This summer, he found an antique gun — a 1740s-era musket that sold for $125, plus tax — in one of Philadelphia’s South Street shops.
[…]

Park On Ice
Drive Reels From Freakish Storms
By Kelly Jasper

It’s quiet up on Skyline Drive. There’s the occasional hum of chain saws, the beep of a bucket truck backing up, and the ominous thunder of falling trees.
But there aren’t many cars or hikers, and even fewer campers.
A sign at the Thornton Gap Entrance Station announces […]

Too bad I couldn’t trackdown a copy of the photo that ran with this story in today’s paper. It made the story.
From Friday’s Daily News-Record:
Faces of Meth
By Kelly Jasper
HARRISONBURG — Their pictures are heart wrenching, stomach-turning and mind-boggling.
Inside an auditorium at the Simms Center, faces flash across a video screen that magnifies the sunken […]

I love this story because of it’s potential. It really could have been a wash and I’m happy with the way it’s developing. Stay posted for parts 2, 3, 4 …
From Wednesday’s Daily News-Record:
Lawyer Puts Peace Into Practice
By Kelly Jasper
HARRISONBURG — Everybody has something to bring to the table. Traditionally, it’s called a potluck. […]

I pulled past Harrisonburg’s mall today. Couple dozen people were standing, shivering outside one of its entrances. I watched from a stoplight as cops came and started ushering people away from the doors.
A bomb threat? Gas leak? Fight? Wasn’t sure. So I pulled in and started fishing for my cell phone. Gotta call the […]

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 […]