Are we heading toward a flu season along with colds and COVID? Health pundits are already setting off alarm bells of this possibility. But I’m not so certain, as it really depends on what the dominant strain of COVID will be and how it behaves. The dominant Delta COVID strain doesn’t like competition from other COVID strains and once it owns your body, it fights against other strains through sheer dominance...

Dear Editor, As someone who moved to Berryville as a child in the late ’60s, I consider myself practically a native of Berryville. The library was a cool place to hang out with my friend Judith Byler. Since her family owned Huer’s shoe store on the square, the library was just a couple doors down and we would hang out and get lost in the shelves of children’s books. ...

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, so it’s fitting that it marks a major milestone for me. In October 2013 — eight years and a lifetime ago — I broke free from an abusive relationship. We were together nearly four years. The abuse started from the beginning, but I couldn’t see it until we mutually ended things...