Tick season is here. Remember to check for ticks after spending time outdoors.
And beware of the ones that live off taxpayers while pretending they're helping.
@klara_sjo Then again, people getting into a polite single file line that's miles long instead of using the available space to zipper merge where the lane ends is the worst
A man crashed a stolen car outside St. Joseph Shrine. Then he bolted.
The Rector heard the crash and someone yelled "stop him."
So Rev. Jean-Baptiste Commins — in full cassock — tackled him, and held him until the police came.
Never underestimate a priest in a cassock.
Last night, Carroll County lost one of its own.
Deputy Logan Utt was killed in the line of duty while he and a fellow deputy answered a welfare check, the kind of call our deputies run every day without a second thought. A second deputy was wounded and is reported to be in stable condition. I am grateful he is expected to recover, and I am praying for his family tonight as well.
Deputy Utt joined the Sheriff’s Office in 2023 after serving in our nation’s military. He spent his career working to make this county safer, and he gave his life doing it. He leaves behind a wife and children who now carry a loss no family should have to bear.
To the men and women of the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office: your community stands with you. Your deputies have now come under fire twice in little more than a year, and they keep showing up anyway. That courage does not go unnoticed in Richmond or here at home.
The man responsible is still at large. I urge anyone with information to call the Virginia State Police at 540-444-7788, or 911 in an emergency. Do not approach him.
Please keep the Utt family, the recovering deputy, and the entire Sheriff’s Office in your prayers.
Del. Wren Williams
“To eliminate suffering entirely would mean, in the end, extinguishing love and desire as well. Those who love and desire cannot avoid passing through trial and suffering; and over the years, we carry within us lessons that leave their mark like scars, the memories of a journey shaped by freedom and failure, dreams and disappointments.
It is only thanks to the interplay of these elements that the wonders of the soul occur within us, allowing us to sense the richness of our humanity.
To renounce this adventure, both tragic and splendid, in the name of a presumed transcendence of all limits, could mean many things, but it would no longer be human.”
Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (par. 120) (May 15, 2026)