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‘Tis the season for the post-season
The local landscape is on fire with the brilliant colors of autumn. Leaves changing from green to yellow, ...
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Do you believe in ghosts?
While there are plenty of stories etched in mystery – some even too morbid to share – they ...
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Soup, milk, and hot sauce
The world is coming unglued – literally and figuratively. Last Friday (Oct. 14), two young protestors each tossed ...
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What goes around comes around
Those who founded and opened what was later known as the Richard Theater in downtown Ahoskie way back ...
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Elizabeth City museum shares “Our Story”
I can only speak for myself, but over the course of my near 70 years of life I’ve ...
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On-screen violence desensitizes young people
With all the violence now found by simply inserting a disc in a home entertainment device, or through ...
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Baffling accounts of the criminally insane
I feel obligated from time to time to bring my local readers (all three of you…well, four, if ...
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Fingers (and toes) remain crossed
It wasn’t the outcome I had hoped for, but the sun will rise tomorrow and with it comes ...
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Life saving ‘drug’ arrives just in time
Just one more week and I would been a goner…pushing up daises; sleeping with the gophers; six feet ...
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‘Tis the season…for chills, thrills, and spills
History came mighty close to repeating itself last week. To prove just how long I’ve covered the sport ...
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Play Ball: the history of certain games
This past Sunday morning, while enjoying the day’s first cup of coffee, I stumbled across a story on ...
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Mingling with the rich and famous
I’ve chatted with Charlie Daniels. Somewhere buried within the mess that I call my office is Richard Petty’s ...
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Local festivals are worthy of our support
The North Carolina Watermelon Festival in Murfreesboro has stood the test of time. Its humble roots are traced ...
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Cashing in on the Mega Millions Lottery
Even with a wife and daughter who were born to shop, I’m at a loss when trying to ...
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Hello to a new place; farewell to a legendary face
Refreshed, reinvigorated, revitalized, and rejuvenated….that’s how these old bones of mine feel after taking a much-needed break from ...