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Help fight the PC War on the South by learning the true history of the Confederacy at the Abbeville Institute Convention Feb. 27-28 in Charleston, SC
Published: Friday, February 19th, 2016 @ 12:58 am
By: Diane Rufino
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One hundred and fifty one years after the end of the civil war, we still cannot resolve the fundamental differences that existed then and to some extent exist now. Civil War, Martin Luther King, I have a dream, MLK Birthday
Published: Monday, January 18th, 2016 @ 4:10 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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George, a Purple Heart recipient, was stationed at Hickam Field in Hawaii during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. He joined the U.S. Army Air Force in 1940 and served in the Pacific Theater during most of World War II, including the Pacific Ocean nuclear bomb tests. After 23 years of service...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 8:27 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Mr. Dana Vaughn Hollowell, age 64, a resident of 242 Maules Point Rd., Blounts Creek, NC died Monday October 19, 2015 at his home.
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 @ 11:51 am
By: Announcements
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How a book made me re-evaluate some of the events in my life.
Published: Sunday, September 6th, 2015 @ 2:29 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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I make no apologies here: I am a Southerner as a condition of birth and by lineage - both parents were Southerners.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2015 @ 11:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I usually try not to call attention to a lot of the stupidity that oozes through the drive-by media. (There's so frickin' much of it.)
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 9:15 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Forty-Six years ago 11 were killed at a local Georgia dragstrip. I was there.
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2015 @ 5:13 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I got a chance to ride the rails with mom before planes and cars took over traveling
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 8:53 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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The terms have been tossed around for many years. It seems the frequency and fury attached in this election year is turning them into missiles of hate and revenge.
Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2014 @ 4:08 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Residents in Richmond County are divided on whether to pass a Nov. 4 ballot referendum raising the county’s sales tax rate by 0.25 cents to build a multi-use recreation complex for the city of Rockingham on 118 acres.
Published: Saturday, September 27th, 2014 @ 2:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Once again, Tayloe's Hospital Pharmacy and Washington Harbor District Alliance are teaming up to bring you an evening of music and fun on Main Street, between Gladden and Market.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 3:43 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Come join Tayloe's Hospital Pharmacy and Washington Harbor District Alliance as we turn Main Street, between Gladden and Market, into an outdoor music festival!
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 3:18 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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One of the toughest decisions an editor has to make is to decide how long an unsavory act or behavior should follow a person or an institution around in the news columns.
Published: Saturday, March 1st, 2014 @ 4:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Any watching my Facebook timeline have observed the political banter going on. My friends come from both sides of the political tracks.
Published: Sunday, February 23rd, 2014 @ 12:49 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Co-founder of Food Town (later renamed Food Lion), Ralph Ketner started working in the grocery business as a child in his father's meat store in Salisbury, North Carolina and later as a teenager during the Depression in his brother's Kannapolis, North Carolina store.
Published: Monday, December 2nd, 2013 @ 1:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Those of you who live outside The Fayetteville Observer's circulation area, you probably haven't become acquainted with Myron Pitts. For those of you in the Triangle - think of Myron as a poor man's version of Barry Saunders.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 3:18 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. William Lelon "Bill" Boyette, age 83, a resident of 408 Old Bath Hwy. Washington, NC died Tuesday September 17, 2013 at his home.
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2013 @ 1:58 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Irene Gilbert Gurganus, 82, of Greenville, died Saturday, March 30, 2013 at Harmony Hall with family by her side
Published: Thursday, April 4th, 2013 @ 7:37 pm
By: Announcements
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Every year, we pay homage to those that make a marked difference, who pass on from this temporal plane.
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 @ 3:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Known as the home of to R. J. Reynolds Tobacco, Wake Forest University, and the Moravian settlement of the Carolinas, Forsyth County was annexed from Stokes County in 1849 and was named for a War of 1812 colonel, Benjamin Forsyth.
Published: Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Terry Lee Deal, age 62, a resident of 221 Pamlico Drive, Pamlico Village, died Monday, November 5, 2012, at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington.
Published: Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 @ 12:23 pm
By: Announcements
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History teaches us that the Ku Klux Klan was a violent organization aimed at terrorizing and intimidating former slaves. They operated as a secret society - a bunch of cowards with white gowns and masks, often carrying guns and a noose.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 1:01 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The two candidates for governor have spent lots of energy and money debating whether North Carolina has lost our mojo, pointing out who is to blame. With days remaining before the November 6 elections it's time to debunk the rhetoric.
Published: Saturday, September 22nd, 2012 @ 9:37 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Still puzzled about how North Carolina can rank so highly on some national measures of business climate, and still have among the worst-performing economies in the country?
Published: Friday, July 27th, 2012 @ 9:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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William Edwin “Billy” Stancill, 90, a resident of 4221 Market Street Extension, Washington, died Wednesday, July 11, 2012, at River Trace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Washington.
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 @ 1:34 am
By: Announcements
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I, like many others, mourned the passing of John Lennon in December, 1980. Not unlike those sad times, Levon Helm of the The Band, passed today, and like the musical promise of John Lennon, unfulfilled, he will be missed for all he accomplished.
Published: Thursday, April 19th, 2012 @ 11:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Leona Udell "Dell" Boyette Lane, 72, ended her courageous battle with cancer on Dec. 5, 2011.
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2011 @ 3:14 pm
By: Announcements
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Irvin Whitley “Whit” Ross, 67, a resident of 1040 Dixie Trail, Williamston, died Saturday, May 28, 2011, at Martin General Hospital.
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 @ 2:35 pm
By: Announcements
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Though the BoCO Music Festival weekend got off to a temperate start tonight at Music in the Streets, there was some apprehension in the air over tomorrow's forecast for severe weather.
Published: Friday, April 15th, 2011 @ 10:45 pm
By: BCN
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Downtown Washington and Festival Park will be home to two days of live music and entertainment for the entire family during this year's BoCO Music Festival.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 @ 4:28 pm
By: Leslie Schneider
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The film "Leaves of Grass" is less to do with Walt Whitman's opus, and more of a discussion of this aforementioned human condition, and yet still a comedy of sorts.
Published: Thursday, November 25th, 2010 @ 11:02 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Dixieland Jazz meets North Carolina Bluegrass.
Published: Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 @ 12:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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