Mister Hanger (owner) says, We would like to invite you to attend the 37th Annual Western Virginia Sport Show. This year’s event will be held February 21, 22 & 23, 2025 at Augusta Expo in Fishersville, Virginia. With over 200 vendor spaces available, this event, now in its third decade, …

Love…exciting and new! Come on in, we are expecting you…at the library… right here on Main Street! There is a lot to love about your local library, the J. Robert Jamerson Memorial Library. We are hosting “Blind Date With A Book”. What is behind wrapped paper number 1, paper number 2 or paper…

Howdy Friends! Each month at our regularly scheduled Board of Supervisors meetings, our County Administrator provides a update on county affairs. I thought it would be a nice thing to talk about a few topics here in our Appomattox Insights column.

What does it mean to lunge a horse, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of doing so? What it is — is a rider standing in the center of a large circle with the horse circling around her in various speeds of different sizes on a 25-30 foot nylon or cotton flat lead rope or lunge line.

Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! It was bad. So I asked Grandma for a tip from the old country. “Hey, how do you cook cabbage?” She suggested boiling it. I didn't tell her that's above my head, instead making a note: learn that skill, too.

There is no need to convince the thousands of Virginians and avid outdoors men and women, who get excited by reeling in a 30-pound striper or seeing a beautiful brook trout rise to a fly, why they need to start making plans to head outside. But if for some reason, you need a little convincin…

Howdy Friends! Your Board of Supervisors are off to a great start in this New Year. I am pleased as I begin my second year of serving you and our county, we will continue to see good things happening in our county.

The word February is derived from the Latin word "februs" meaning "to cleanse." The month was named after the Roman Festival, Februalia, a month-long festival of purification and atonement. February’s birthstone is the amethyst, and the flower is the iris (or violet). Some of February’s obs…

Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! If New York mayor Eric Adams has a tough job now — imagine Gotham at the turn of the 20th century. It's rumored there were a hundred thousand banjos in NYC alone. Talk about problems.

The DGIF releases the Bear, Deer, and Turkey summaries. Hunters reported harvesting 2,892 bears during the 2023–24 bear hunting seasons in Virginia 2023–24 bear harvest was approximately 29.6% higher than the previous year’s harvest, and 3.2% lower than the previous five-year average during …

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Winter is blanketing the county with snow and ice. We want our patrons to stay safe and warm by curling up with a good book. During inclement weather please call the library (434-352-5340) or checkout our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/JamersonMemorialLibrary to make sure we are open. Ca…

Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! Those poor pine trees. Last week, we talked about 'em right here, how they keep the winter woods green. This week, limbs came crashing down, splintering, filling the air with that piney fresh, the remaining branches drooping dejectedly. They sure w…

Howdy Friends! Try happy! More than a state of mind. More than a suggestion. And certainly more than an emotion. Happy is a tonic, an elixir for what ails ya. It’s a motivator, too!

Pete and I got to work at M&M’s and Mario was still getting his laugh on. Earlier that week, Mario told Pete and I where he caught all his fish while ice fishing. We were ice fishing at Lake Mince in Pennsylvania. Mario got us hook, line and sinker, so to speak of. He told us where to go…

Winter is here and the weather is changing like the weather! Be sure to give us a like and follow on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com JamersonMemorialLibrary) for the latest updates, events, fun facts, recipes, and last-minute closings. Yes, we have other social media pages, Instagram, Pi…

Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! Yesterday morning was warm, for winter, so off I went, outside, away from the screens and phones, across the fields and along the forest.

The Board of Supervisors finished up the 2024 meeting on December 20. It was a busy meeting with several appearances and a few action items. Below are the highlights.

Most of us are done hunting for the year except squirrel and rabbits. The fishing season is coming soon. Now would be a good time to clean, wash and repair anything that needs attention. Everybody has their own ways to clean their hunting and fishing gear. Here are some basic ways that don’t…

Happy New Year from the staff and volunteers of the library. We are so excited for 2025! We hope this year brings you great joy! January is named for the Roman god Janus, protector of gates and doorways. January’s birthstone is the garnet, and the flower is the carnation. Some observances in…

Howdy, folks, and welcome to the show! Well, we made it. We're here. Happy New Year.

The crappie spawn starts in Southern Florida around January 15th. By the time February 1st gets here, you can find the spawn in Mid-Florida. A few weeks later you can find them spawning in Northern Florida. Around March 1st you can find them spawning in Southern Alabama and Southern Carolina…

Happy New Year from the staff and volunteers of the library. We are so excited for 2025! We hope this year brings you great joy! January is named for the Roman god Janus, protector of gates and doorways. January’s birthstone is the garnet, and the flower is the carnation. Some observances in…

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Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! “Hey, you look like...like...” The girl at the gym paused, thinking. I raised an eyebrow.

Here is what the DGIF website had to say about rabies.

Here are the highlights of the November Board meeting. Sorry I’m a little late…

Keith from CVACL (Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living Inc.) stopped by on Monday, December 9th to pick up donated gifts from the “Elves for Elders” outreach. The library has been working with CVACL for almost a decade to help bring local seniors a bit of holiday joy during the win…

Loading and unloading horses from trailers is one of the most dangerous activities anyone can do with a horse. There are countless serious injuries every year, sometimes fatal to both horses and their handlers. The reasons for these wrecks are many but sadly, most of them could have been avo…

Howdy folks, and welcome back to the show! That Burl Ives Christmas album is terrible. I love it. It's a time capsule, bringing me right back to the early days and holidays. Mom would always start the season with the coffee table. Made from an antique trunk, it would sit closed all year, qui…

Years ago while living in Bangor, Pennsylvania, my buddy Pete asked me on the way home from work if I was interested in doing some black powder hunting. I told Pete I don’t own a black powder rifle. Pete said I was in for a treat. At the time I had no idea what he meant. Pete told me he woul…

Howdy Friends! Today we’re going to travel to Pamplin. one of Virginia’s smallest cities, incorporated in 1874. Did you know Pamplin is featured in “Lost Communities of Virginia?” But if it’s up to the dynamic mayor, Sarah Hamlett Blackwell, Pamplin will not be lost any longer. In fact it is…

The weather outside is frightful, but the library is so delightful! Let us read, let us read, let us read and more! The days may be shorter, and the nights longer, but your local library is bright and warm. We have lots of movies, magazines, books and online resources to enjoy. Remember to g…

Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! Have you noticed? Winter is springing up like, well...spring. We're still two-and-a-half weeks out from the official start, but it's sneaking up on me in bits and pieces.

Here are some questions and answers from D.G.I.F. about hunting on Sundays.

Howdy Friends! When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one person to speak up and set true the record of another’s hard work, integrity and devotion, well, by golly I am that person. Let’s jump right in.

It’s beginning to look a like Christmas on Main Street, and at your local library! We are decked out for the holidays with lots of lights and decorations as we celebrate good will toward man (and woman)! December comes from the word decem, "ten," because this had been the 10th month of the e…

Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! “Did a bomb go off?” my brother asked. I'm not sure how celery ended up on the ceiling — and the floor — and across the way. Whoever said “hard work pays off” was lying. The Thanksgiving stuffing was awful. And late. The family sat around the table…

I was talking with the guys at the bus shop about a story of a man and a deer, and we all busted out laughing. I dug deep into the archives and found it. I hope everybody enjoys this funny story.

Howdy Friends! It had been a while since I’d been home for Thanksgiving. Life and business always seemed to get in the way, or so I told myself. It wasn’t so much I wanted to miss the big gathering as it was I reckon I just didn’t care enough. Funny that not a year went by I didn’t think abo…

The staff of the Jamerson Library would like to wish all of our patrons a Happy Thanksgiving! With the holiday season in full swing, we are the perfect place to check out a movie or two for a family movie night, read a best seller curled up with a warm blanket, get a magazine or book to find…

It is on…the BIG book sale that is! It is not to late to come get some great titles, movies, books on audio CD, and plants! We still have lots to choose from! All items are 50 cents each! All proceeds will be used toward new materials and programming.

Every year when Christmas rolls around there are so many things to do. Every Christmas Eve we read about Jesus’ birth from the Bible. After giving thanks to the Lord, sometimes we go into the den where the stockings are hanging and grab one gift. After that we wait unto morning until we open…

Howdy Friends! Our wonderful Appomattox County is God-blessed with many great places, things and people. Our county has a population of a bit over 17,000. It takes a collective effort of more than a few dedicated and talented people to manage and operate our county’s local government. From t…

Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! Don't you think the Evening Star has a nice ring to it? It used to be a Washington newspaper in the 1800's. It's the name of an Edgar Allan Poe poem, and before you throw this paper away with a “what is that boy talking about?” it's that airplane-l…

Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! A bald eagle. There! Flying low over the traffic in Richmond on Election Day. Stopped at a light, I watched him wheel over the intersection, as if he knew he was the national bird.

Back in the early ‘70s, shotgun season was only a week away. My buddies and I made plans to hunt the Mill Pond area. It was a swamp with a lot of deer trails going in every direction. We had one week to pick out our spot to hunt from. There were a lot of buck rubs to look at.

I'd missed a few years of Grandpop's Veterans Day rides. Those years when I was all self-assured that whatever I had to do was the most important thing. I'm sorry I missed those years. I'm happy Grandpop waited for me to come to my senses. I'm not sure when he started his daylong treks to th…

Watch us grow! The J. Robert Jamerson Memorial Library is on the map, Google maps that is. If you search under the library’s name in Google, on the right hand side where we show up click on photos for a set of updated photos and clickable tours of the inside of the library!

Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! Well, this doesn't seem the day for remarks about autumn (but what a beautiful, vintage faded-photograph fall we're having). I'm writing this a week before the day after election day, and don't want to pull off a DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN fiasco. I'd al…