Lifestyle

Dr. Magryta: Let’s take a look at proteins

Like carbohydrates and fats, protein is necessary for growth and maintenance. It is a major macronutrient that is ...

Lifestyle

Lynna Clark: Come on in!

Last week I brought my geraniums inside before the frost could get them. I could tell that if ...

Lifestyle

Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Playing with Puppets There is some controversy about what you choose to open if you hold 15-17 points ...

Lifestyle

Ann Farabee: Thankful

   Here are two words we can be thankful for: Quartzy – related to quartz Muzjik – ...

Faith

Doug Creamer: Thankful for Vets and…

            As I sit at the computer, it is Veteran’s Day. I am thankful for the sacrifices our ...

Columns

Lynna Clark: Art lesson

Some days just leave you smiling. Yesterday was one of those days. Once a week I try to ...

Lifestyle

David Freeze: Gotta Run

  Andy and Steve complete their first NYC Marathon Some of my best running memories came from the ...

Lifestyle

Peggy Barnhardt: Are you getting the old heave-ho?

Do you have a family doctor that is inaccessible? When you call to make an appointment do you ...

Lifestyle

Mack Williams: Polling place memories

 People get reminders to vote in the paper, over the phone, and in person, at the front door. ...

Lifestyle

Oh, my ailing pansies

“What is wrong with my pansies? They were beautiful when I planted them but after a few weeks ...

Lifestyle

Dr. Magryta: The importance of fats

Fats are a macronutrient found in nature in animals and plants as the major storage form of energy. ...

Lifestyle

Ann Farabee: The veterans

     It seemed that he talked about it non-stop. The same stories over and over. I ...

Lifestyle

Doug Creamer: God cares

            I am not a good reader. I rarely accept recommendations for new books because I read so ...

Lifestyle

Lynna Clark: The blessing

Have you ever had your socks blessed off? David and I have been through everything you can imagine ...

Columns

Clyde, Time Was: Life revolved around the kitchen table

Time was, we sat around the kitchen table. We only went into the dining room to eat. A ...

Lifestyle

Mack Williams: Believe it or not, it floated

I left off last week on the Dan River Walk Trail bridge, looking to where Tropical Storm Michael’s ...

Health

David Freeze: Mary & Karen — good news on two fronts

At the end of September, Mary’s progress had stalled and Karen was on the shelf with heart problems. ...

Lifestyle

A bloomin’ bush: camellia sasanqua

One of my neighbors asked me what type of crepe myrtle was blooming at this time of year ...

Lifestyle

Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Scary Doubles Doubles involved in normal conventional bidding are used happily and freely but when it comes to ...

Columns

Doug Creamer: Creativity

            We went to Asheville a few weeks ago for the Southern Highland Craft Guild Show. We look ...

Lifestyle

Ann Farabee: The house

   The words jolted me a bit, “It is better to go to the house of mourning ...

Lifestyle

Dr. Henry Waiters: The beginning of the apostasy in the church, part 3

Bishop Sylvester of Rome, 314 A.D., by his apostolic authority, officially changed the title of the first day, ...

Lifestyle

Lichen: ‘Will this hurt my tree?’

A couple of people have recently asked if the grey moss-like growth on the limbs and twigs of ...

Lifestyle

Mack Williams: Post Michael, Pt. 1

Today’s column is one of two parts dealing with my experience of the aftermath of Tropical Storm Michael ...

Lifestyle

Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Mistakes continued Continuing with our mistakes in bidding sequence is the strong temptation to overbid with large hands. ...

Lifestyle

David Freeze: Gotta Run

Counting down some memories and some local happenings Next week, I will count 40 years back to the ...

Lifestyle

Ann Farabee: Show up

   In 1976, I graduated from college, accepted a teaching position, and started earning my annual income ...

Lifestyle

Doug Creamer: Seeing our potential

            A couple of weeks ago the Thomasville Rotary Club organized a job shadow day for local students. ...

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