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ECU student experiences The Big House

By SEAN ROCCA For the Washington Daily News Editor’s note: Sean Rocca just completed a summer internship covering ...

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All I really needed to know

As September brings children back to school, I pray for a healthy, safe and prosperous year of academic ...

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Remembering the Coast Guard Station

The old Coast Guard Station use to be at the foot of the bridge that crossesthe Pamlico River and runs onto Highway 17.  It was so clean and neat andgave you the appearance of a hospital.  The buoy yard was always so orderly and well organized.  For years it was the home of Carol Farrow McCracken, who grew up there and went to school in Washington up until her father retired.  They then moved to Cape Hatteras, where she finished high school and later moved to Winston-Salem, N.C. The ship was a buoy tender and it was called the Verbena. Only buoy tenders were named after a shrub or plant common to the area where it was built. ...

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Turning hope’s lie into truth

“I have little hope this plan will succeed. But then sometimes, hope is the lie we make come ...

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Glyphosate aka Roundup fact or fiction?

I did a class for the Cypress Landing community a few weeks back and one of the questions ...

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Write Again…Only come again in dreams

Today’s endeavor, friends, is sort of an amalgam of prose and poetry, by my Incomparable First Wife’s grandmother, ...

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Remembering the old landmark

I wanted to thank the Washington Daily News and Clark Curtis for a wonderful and inspiring story about ...

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Reconnecting through dry cleaning

Every year on the Fourth of July week, Marshall Todd Singleton and wife, Brenda, get ready for a ...

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Even when you do it all the right way…

I have an Extension Master GardenerSM Volunteer who says growing fruits and vegetables should be more of a ...

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Write Again…He lived a life of purpose

Hello, friends. Thanks for meeting here with me again. Today’s column is about someone with whom you may ...

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