Cal Bryant
Springtime means dogwoods and white perch
Locals and even those from outside our little corner of the world proclaim the Chowan River as the ...
Columns
A hodgepodge of wrong names, hidden cakes, and runaway flamingos
Some weeks, it feels like my mind is all over the place. It’s sort of like my brain ...
Cal Bryant
Have you got talent? It’s your time to shine!
Is there a Carrie Underwood among us? How ‘bout a gifted writer such as Ernest Hemingway; or another ...
Columns
Blind broadcaster shows the power of opportunity
I don’t often have a chance to listen to basketball games on the radio. I tune in occasionally ...
Cal Bryant
Busting the bracket and the bank
Borrowing from well-used phrase in baseball, this week’s column goes “around the horn” in reference to brief opinions ...
Columns
Please don’t “complement” my spelling
Recently, I was reading what fans online were saying about a particular TV show I enjoy watching. I ...
Cal Bryant
Gone, but not forgotten for ‘service above self’
Over the course of my 40-plus years in the newspaper business, I’ve been extremely fortunate to have built ...
Letters to the Editor
We need to stop the growth of evil
To the Editor: America and most of the free world are standing with Ukraine. As it suffers an ...
Columns
Tournament brackets: made for “madness” and fun
It’s about time for March Madness to start gearing up. Whether you’re a diehard, hardcore sports fan or ...
Cal Bryant
Brooklyn or bust…..let the games begin!
Before diving into this week’s column topic – the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament – let me first give ...
Columns
Go get your ‘redemption’ story somewhere else
On Feb. 24, officials with Grambling State University announced that they had hired Art Briles as the offensive ...
Cal Bryant
Treasures abound within newspaper files
It’s the irony of ironies. Over the past few months, the staff here at Roanoke-Chowan Publications – which ...
Columns
You’d have to pay me to stop browsing
How much money would someone have to pay you to keep off of social media? Would $1,800 be ...
Columns
Ski ballet and other forgotten Winter Olympic sports
How many of you took ballet classes as a kid? I did! Though as I got older, the ...
Cal Bryant
Please add snow globe watching to the Olympics
The current Games of the Winter Olympics being held in Beijing, China isn’t – at least right now ...