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Over these years its reporters have ranged across this and our neighboring counties giving in-depth news, photo and editorial coverage to these issues. Its coverage of these matters has been larger than any county seat newspaper, such as this one, could give to them with a far broader number of subjects to report each week.
The Piedmont Virginian has been one of our chief competitors. We could not have had a more fair competitor.
The Piedmont Virginian announced last week that it is ending weekly publication to continue on as a monthly, noting in its final weekly editorial that it will continue to emphasize regional land use issues. The paper put it this way:
“Land use is The issue facing government at all levels in this nation,
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