Life

The winter landscape can be beautiful, but if you are like me, you are ready for some spring color. We are still several weeks away from spring and seeing color outside. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t bring some inside. Spring blooming shrubs and bulbs can be forced to bloom…

Have you ever known someone or something that was kind of smart and kind of dumb all at the same time? Well, that’s how I remember the dog that we had back in my early childhood. He was an English collie – black with a white ring around his neck.…

HAMLET — When Richmond Community College decided to explore the opportunity to offer a new certification program, Industrial Systems Technician, college leadership reached out to Enviva and other area manufacturers for input to develop the new program. The goal is to develop an accelerated program that teaches students the necessary…

As we continue to experience a wet winter with significant temperature swings, there are some management practices horse owners can use to address common concerns regarding their animal’s health and well-being.

Hugh McRae and Rockingham Power company had started and nearly completed Blewett Falls Dam. But when hard times and floods hit the dam project, he lost out. In 1908 investors, who would later come together to form the original Carolina Power and Light Co. took over the project.

Most people are familiar with the challenges facing many native plant and animal species these days.

Work at the Blewett Fall dam was going good until 1907. That particular year a flood coming from a hurricane caused the Pee Dee River to crest way above its regular level causing parts of the new construction of the dam to be washed away. Also, that same year the…

Kindergarten students from Peachland Polkton Elementery school flexed their creative skills creating colorfully unique snowmen that Frosty would feel outdressed hanging around. Fingers are crossed across Anson County for a chance to make real backyard snowmen of our own.

There is evidence to support the fact that the changes in muscle, bone, and fat we had when we were younger, long considered “normal aging”, are actually a result of an “energy imbalance.”