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It’s been just a little over a day since the Rockies officially traded away the face of the franchise, Nolan Arenado, and the wound is still fresh. Unfortunately, it’s not the first time a star player has been traded away from the Rockies and it probably won’t be the last. Many comparisons are being made to Matt Holliday and Troy Tulowitzki who were both shipped out of Denver in their prime, but I would like to shed some light on another comp: Scott Rolen. Prior to the trade deadline of the 2002 season, Scott Rolen was traded from the Philadelphia Phillies to the St. Louis Cardinals. In...

More Ledger stories will be subscriber only On Monday, regular readers of The Ledger’s website will notice a small change. Some of our top stories – on average about one a day – will be reserved solely for subscribers, an effort to provide greater value to our most loyal readers. But we also hope that by showcasing our best local work, we can encourage the tens of thousands of others who breeze through our website occasionally to stop, join our family and engage with us more regularly. The Lakeland Evening Ledger printed its first issue on Aug. 22, 1924. It predates Bok Tower (1929), t...

Posted On December 30, 2020 Chris Williams of Hudgins has received a citation from the Virginia Saltwater Fishing Tournament for a 5-pound, 25-inch speckled trout caught on Nov. 28 in the Piankatank River. As the year winds down on the 2020 fishing tournament, which is operated through the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, there are a few local connections to leading entries. Keith Nuttall of Gloucester, who boated an 18-pound bluefish last winter at Triangle Wrecks, leads the entries for that species, and in fact has the only citation issued in 2020 for bluefish. The minimum citation wei...