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Community responds to tragic fire
When the community needed help, Jesus Torres has been there to lend it for the past 10 years. Now that a fire has destroyed his restaurant, Fiesta Brava, it is Torres who can use some assistance ...
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Uncivil discourse
Civility is dead. Many a family gathering has been ruined when talk around the dinner table turned to politics or religion.  People are passionate about such things and there’s nothing wrong with ...
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Uncivil discourse
Civility is dead. Many a family gathering has been ruined when talk around the dinner table turned to politics or religion.  People are passionate about such things and there’s nothing wrong...
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Department moving in right direction
Doing the right thing sometimes means paying a little more. Sometimes it means being rewarded. The North Carolina Department of Transportation is finding that it can actually save money by reusing...
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Our View: DOT adopts new attitude
Doing the right thing sometimes means paying a little more. Sometimes it means being rewarded. The North Carolina Department of Transportation is finding that it can actually save money by reusing...
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Seeds of the future?
To a motorist, it probably looked like a bed of wildflowers. But along Interstate 40, what you see may be the seed of the future. The Department of Transportation is working on a pilot program tha...
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Making the tough choices
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When times are good, families may go out to the movies once a week, eat steak on Saturday and go on out of town vacations. When times are tough, the extras are put on hold. It’s only natural. The ...
Softball field upgrades a ‘have to’
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For homeowners, there are things you have to do, things you need to do and things you want to do. You have to pay the electric bill or the power company will shut off service. You need to fix that...
Show them that you care
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You’ve got the outdoor grill ready. Check. Gas tank filled for that trip to the lake. Check. When you make your holiday plans for the long weekend, try and carve an hour out of that 36 hours to p...
School plan is misguided
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On the surface, it sounded like a good plan. Local schools would provide after school daycare services. The price would be almost half of what private centers charge, and the school system could m...
Let Goodwin do his job
3 months ago | 3 3 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
If you meet Marc Basnight, he comes across as a simple man, a laid back guy from eastern North Carolina. He doesn’t have a college degree and makes jokes about it. He’s just a small business owner...
Schools making strides
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When Richmond County unveiled a plan to realign the school system a few years ago, it was met with a flurry of protests. To some people, it was a pretty drastic move. Ninth graders, who had been ...
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