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School Spirit Week
You could feel the electricity in the air as the PTA officers made their final rounds to judge each classroom for the annual School Spirit Week Decorating Contest before the all-school awards assembly in the […]
Opinion
Editorials
Take a trip to HCA’s Candy Cane Lane
It’s hard to believe, but the holidays are just around the corner now. Thanksgiving is not quite two weeks away, bringing with it a time to reflect on our blessings. It also officially ushers in […]
Editorials
To our veterans: with respect, love, thanks
We honor our veterans today — for the freedoms they’ve ensured; for the protection they have provided through our history, and continue to provide today; for the call they so bravely answer; for their willingness […]
Columns
Honoring America’s Doughboys
I’ve waited 40 years to write this article. For it was in 1978 when I first came across my Uncle Carroll Hosbrook’s WW I letters, including one written from France on November 11, 1918, Armistice […]
Columns
Ending up somewhere else
During the election back in 2016, I was working at the early voting site in Roseboro. I try to stay out of discussing any politics while working. With the large turnout this year, we were […]
Editorials
Providing a coat is a warm, loving gesture
Remarkable things can happen when people come together for a common cause. We say it often on these pages, but never often enough to convey the spirit of a community that always finds a way […]
Columns
Voters opt for split decision
If you expected the 2018 midterm elections to settle all scores and clarify all unanswered political questions in the era of Donald Trump, you were just asking for disappointment — and that’s what voters gave […]
Editorials
It’s time for good men, women to act that way
As the dust begins to settle after Tuesday’s historic election, we hope the winners — and even those who didn’t garner enough votes for the victories they had hoped — will strike a new tone […]
Editorials
NC 24: The albatross that won’t let go
The four-laning of N.C. 24 remains an albatross around Sampson County’s neck and it appears it’s going to continue to tighten its grip — draining travelers of every ounce of patience they have remaining — […]
Columns
What to do if you lose
As I write, the results of the 2018 midterm elections are not yet known. By the time some readers see this, it’s possible that the long-predicted blue wave will have washed away GOP majorities in […]
Columns
A Dating Game contestant
One of the highlights of my last year in college was the time two other guys and myself were chosen as bachelors to sit in the hot seat on “The Dating Game”. I was dumbstruck […]
Editorials
Make a difference, vote today
Today is election day. It is your final opportunity to cast a ballot in this all-important election, both from a local standpoint as well as on a state and national level. It is a civic […]