A publication of the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives
“The boys were doubtful, but they ate it,” recalls 82-year-old Judy Heflin, of Warrenton, Va., with a laugh.
She’s referring to when her three sons first tasted a fruitcake Heflin made from a recipe she discovered within the pages of a 1987 issue of Rural Living magazine, which is now called Cooperative Living.
July 2024 Story courtesy NewsUSA Sharing a meal -- with family members that include relatives but also those you choose to call family -- not only promotes healthy eating, but healthier minds as well, new data show. More than half of Americans believe that family...
July 2024 Story courtesy of Brandpoint It’s difficult to distance ourselves from screens; they follow us everywhere — in the car, into stores, at restaurants and all around our houses. Children often become reliant on screens for entertainment, and parents sometimes...
July 2024 Story courtesy of Brandpoint There's nothing quite like the lure of the outdoors when the sun is shining, temperatures are heating up and the world is in bloom. Unfortunately, while you and your family are enjoying all that the warmer months have to offer,...
June 2024 BLACKSBURG, Va. — Seneca Johnston has known precisely what she’s wanted to do since she hopped on a horse at 8 years old. Like most children, she didn’t initially want to go to camp. She wasn’t the most outgoing at that age. But the horses calmed her. “I was...
June 2024 by Joshua Banner, Capital News Service For generations, members of the Shank and Creek families, the owners of Palmyra Farms in Hagerstown, Maryland, approached dairy farming the same way: they milked the cows and sold the milk to a cooperative that...
June 2024 by Nathaniel Cline, The Virginia Mercury Even while unexpectedly supporting the Port of Baltimore over the past few months, the Port of Virginia is on its way to having the deepest channels on the East Coast by next year, a distinction that will help it...
