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Memories of a heart-breaking day

 East Carolina hosted Marshall in football last Saturday and there was a group of former players that did ...

Letters to the Editor

Community came together to show love to ’Sweetie Girl’

To the Editor, A beloved member of Goose Creek left us on Thursday, Sept. 7 known as “Sweetie ...

Columns

27 shades of green

I woke up early that morning feeling a fervent need to pray. I spent time in prayer sensing ...

Columns

Muscadine or Scuppernong grapes?

There are few rural residential properties across the Southeast that do not have a grapevine growing somewhere. Be ...

Columns

Renew your baptism daily

In 1985 I was at a crossroads in my life, significant enough that I decided to withdraw from ...

Columns

Write Again…What the world needs now

Today’s offering is a re-run, friends, and I thank you for indulging me. It first appeared November 5,1970. ...

Columns

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 ...

Columns

All I really needed to know

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

Columns

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. ...

Columns

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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