Reporter Bob Stuart wins Virginia Press Awards

By Lynn R. Mitchell

Bob Stuart (left) with Marshall Pattie (right) and Tracy Pyles in background.

Congratulations to local political reporter and friend Bob Stuart with the Waynesboro News-Virginian who was presented two Virginia Press Awards for 1st and 3rd place stories (see The News Virginian staff wins at awards ceremony).

Way back when, he and I sat in Mr. Witthoeff’s 7th grade class in Chesterfield County writing short stories with not a clue our paths would cross years later in the Shenandoah Valley, both still writing.

To quote Ernest Hemingway, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Bleed on, Bob!