News

Remembering Mac Hodges this holiday season

Mac Hodges never knew a stranger. Whether you knew him as a friend or as the committed mayor ...

Columns

It shouldn’t be this hard to fix a boardwalk

I’m not one of those anti-government lunatics by any stretch, but sometimes the snail pace of it gets ...

Columns

Thanksgiving and Christian unity

Many of those who boarded the Mayflower in 1620 en route to the East Coast of North America ...

Editorials

Main Street is open, let’s go shopping

It took almost eight months, but the day has finally arrived. Washington’s Main Street is open and the ...

Columns

A guide to Christmas tree care

Thanksgiving is here and you know Christmas is around the corner! My family traditionally decorates for Christmas the ...

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 ...

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