Columns

Let’s Bump it up!

Could that say what I thought it did? I was behind a car on Market Street. When we ...

Columns

Let’s go back 100 years to take a ride on a Show Boat

  This column is usually sports-related, so pardon the detour. I have been thinking about the idea of ...

Community Columns

Wild ducks in local waters

The south side of the county is replete with wintering birds between November and early spring. Last week, ...

Community Columns

The longest 30 minutes

It was in the spring of my fifth-grade year that I decided to skip school for the first ...

My Turn

Drivers and pedestrians beware this Halloween

Driving impaired kills. Last year, North Carolina lost 35 people during the week of Halloween, and nine of ...

My Turn

The missing piece

A good friend died of COVID last week. Beverly. She tested positive on Monday and died in her ...

My Turn

Reasons for optimism this flu season: vaccine, testing, masks

Fall is known for cooler weather, the holiday spirit and the beginning of respiratory virus season, and this ...

Community Columns

Write Again … That’s who we are

For almost the entirety of my first sixty or more years — well, from around a little before ...

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Reflections of a departing reporter

As I sit down to write my final farewell column as a full-time staff writer at the Washington ...

Columns

A necessity to preserve a nation

We are living in perilous times. Families, churches and neighborhoods are under assault. And not just by a ...

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