Columns

Lessons learned from Coach Wagner

Before we left for an athletic trip, Coaches Wagner, Chapin and Alligood had to go by Ms. Bowen’s ...

August 7, 2023

Columns

Every church is in the hospitality industry

By Rev. Alan Neale For the Washington Daily News Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom broadcast on ...

August 3, 2023

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Azalea caterpillars or Labor Day worms?

It’s that time of year again and the usual suspects are beginning to appear. Last week I went ...

August 3, 2023

Columns

Write Again … Straight from the heart

We said goodbye to Maya, our beloved, beautiful rescue Boston Terrier, on Thursday, July 20. A very hard ...

August 3, 2023

Columns

A tale of two summers

I had an interesting conversation with some young teens recently who told me playing their video games on ...

July 31, 2023

Columns

With the temperature climbing to nearly 100 degrees and high school sports activities beginning; make sure your athletes ...

July 31, 2023

Columns

Write Again …Special souls and subjects

SWEET MEMORIES – My Incomparable First Wife and I attended her WHS Class of ’63 reunion in July. ...

July 27, 2023

Columns

Remembering Roger every day

In middle school, I was a bully. There’s a tragic element here, because, for so much of elementary ...

July 27, 2023

Columns

Every year I have these holes in my Pecans

Pecan trees (Carya illinoinenis) are the hallmark of many landscapes in Eastern North Carolina. They become grand trees, ...

July 27, 2023

Columns

A heart for San Francisco and Selma, Alabama

When I saw on the NBC Nightly News last week that Tony Bennett had passed, a feeling of ...

July 24, 2023