The perfect melon: Farmer gives advice for choosing sweet fruit at the market
Everyone has a method for determining if a melon is ripe from thumping the fruit to checking for yellow spots.
Everyone has a method for determining if a melon is ripe from thumping the fruit to checking for yellow spots.

Local projects in Staunton and Rockingham County are among the 23 sites across Virginia that will get development grants from the Virginia Business Ready Sites Program.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin wants you to believe that he’s trying to strengthen election security with a new executive order that he issued this week.
Downed trees and power outages seem to be most of what’s left in Staunton and Waynesboro in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Debby, now a tropical depression.
Donald Trump, oddly, really does think the people coming to the southern border to seek asylum are mental patients who come here to get a prime spot in one of our insane asylums.
A Portsmouth man has been arrested in connection with the July 11 robbery of a postal worker in Virginia Beach.
Waynesboro emergency personnel will be watching rainfall levels in the city associated with Tropical Storm Debby, but just as important, the city has an eye to the south.
The City of Staunton has been busy this week preparing for the potential for heavy rain from Tropical Storm Debby.
In 24 hours time, the City of Waynesboro went from expecting 2-4” of rain from Tropical Storm Debby to 5-7” of rain or more over the next two or three days.
Dominion Energy is closely monitoring Tropical Storm Debby for potential record rainfall, heavy winds and potential damage.
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