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Our View: In the driver’s seat — a big responsibility
Traffic crashes are the No. 1 killer of teens in America. Along with reading, writing and arithmetic, it’s important to teach our children about safety behind the wheel. It may start with a tricycle in the driveway, or a Big Wheel on the sidewalk, but before you know it our kids have grown enough to earn a real drivers license, and the chance to operate a real motor vehicle — that’s about 4,000 pounds of plastic and metal, capable of spee...
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Our View: From seed to sky
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree … A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair … Writer Joyce Kilmer recognized the tremendous value of trees when he penned those famous lines so long ago. We need the trees. To feed us. To cool us. To provide us shelter. To ground us and bind us. To hold the fragile soil strong, and be a haven for our critters and squirrels. Our relationship with th...
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Our View: Blinded by the light
Among all of the unnecessary bills bouncing about in Raleigh, and the time-wasting legislation jawed about among the General Assembly, there is a modest bit of proposed legislation we believe makes perfect sense. From one of our sister newspapers, The Robesonian, comes word of a state senator looking out for our safety on the roads in NC. The state Senate on Thursday passed a bill that makes it a crime to install and use vehicle headlight...
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Our View: Discovering success
For those of us in the newspaper business — including our transition to the web — success can be measured in the number of eyeballs we attract. For a venue like Rockingham Speedway, it’s the number of fannies in the seats. For Discovery Place KIDS–Rockingham, success can be measured in the number of children’s hands being kept busy by the fascinating displays and exhibits. And from the looks of ticket sales since its grand opening earlier...
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Our View: A good lesson
When we talk about a winning school, a dynamic school, we talk about a very special place that works to prepare youngsters to succeed in life. Life beyond the classroom. We are proud to say that one of those very special places — one of those very special schools — is Hamlet Middle School. Hundreds of students gathered together recently as Hamlet Middle School received its official designation as a North Carolina “School to Watch” for the...
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