Notable quotes from this week’s news:

• “We may be growing older, but we’re not growing up.” — Cindy Penegar, who with her husband, Sam, is selling their Salisbury home to move into a ‘tiny house’ of just 399 square feet in Surf City, where they’ll wear bathing suits most days and live in an RV community

• “That word was hurtful. It was simply not the word I was looking for. I made a huge mistake, and I’m very sorry.” — Greg Edds, chairman of the Rowan County commissioners, offering a public apology for a joke about lynching that
he told a month ago when addressing a public meeting

• “It’s important not only to have a best friend, but to be a best friend.” — McKenzie Faggart, Miss North Carolina 2016, who spoke to students at
Enochville Elementary School on Monday about how to deal with bullying

• “I think the biggest problem we have with public comment is that we sit here like penquins and we don’t respond back.” — David Post, a Salisbury City Council member, during a discussion of proposed changes to the policy on public comment during council meetings

• “Really, I just did my job.” — Owen White, the pitcher for the Carson High School baseball team who threw a no-hitter to defeat East Rowan High 2-0 on Tuesday night

• “We can sit around and say, ‘Never again,’ but fact of the matter is, it’s happening. So ‘Never again’ doesn’t work.” — Cheryl Lange, media center coordinator at Corriher-Lipe Middle School, who helped organized the first Holocaust and WWII Humanities Conference for seventh-graders in the Rowan-Salisbury Schools district