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The effects of marijuana during pregnancy

As cigarette use has declined to its lowest levels in our country, there has been a notable increase ...

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How to care for your poinsettia

I was in Wal-Mart last night picking up gifts for a ministry that our church does called Starlight ...

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Washington’s newest resident bird of prey settles in

Washington residents and city employees have sighted our own downtown Cooper’s Hawk on multiple occasions over the last ...

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Write again… Let us seek the sunlit uplands

Well, here we are, friends, on the cusp of another year. If not the “cusp,” then dang close ...

Editorials

SROs will be tough to replace

Our public schools could be just a few months away from losing their school resource officers. Based on ...

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Colorful birds migrate to Washington

This week’s birds of note are colorful and exciting. Six Baltimore Orioles arrived in Washington on the first ...

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Some things are still the same 117 years later

None of us know how things were in 1903. I’m glad we have written records to educate us. ...

Community Columns

Lessons learned from the lunch table

There were many advantages to living behind the high school, from leaving for school later to getting home ...

Columns

Open for business, but not business as usual

By Sarah Bernart, Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina Although many North Carolina employers are back in business ...

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Fall Rib Feast helps preserve P.S. Jones High’s legacy

By James and Georgia Smallwood On what was once a swamp, a trash dump, and a school playground, ...

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