Lifestyle

The work of the twig girdler

A lady stopped me one morning on my way out of Richards BBQ wailing about something cutting off ...

Lifestyle

Mack Williams: Now, Michael

Having experienced Tropical Storm Florence in Danville, I figured Tropical Storm Michael would just be more of the ...

Lifestyle

Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Bidding misfits We’ve all been there. You have a reasonably good hand and are excited to bid, being ...

Lifestyle

Ann Farabee: Powerless

   Powerless That word became more real in the lives of many as the result of a ...

Health

Dr. Magryta: Soy confusion

Soy is the cause of much confusion and controversy. I have reviewed much of the literature and find ...

Lifestyle

Doug Creamer:Thankful through the storms

            Has it only been a week since I last wrote a column? It seems like more than ...

Lifestyle

Lynna Clark: Adding insult to injury

I got a call this week. The number that popped up looked familiar. Then I realized it was ...

Lifestyle

David Freeze: Gotta Run

Oak Park event focuses on a new group Late this summer, I received a photo from a friend ...

Columns

Mack Williams: Facebook friend and hero

There is a lady who is a “Facebook-friend” and attends the same church as I. I knew her ...

Lifestyle

House plants: vacation’s over

Believe it or not, now is the time to move houseplants indoors for an end to their summer ...

Lifestyle

Kent Bernhardt: The high cost of hitchin’

Somewhere along my life’s journey, the wedding industry left me behind. It blew by me like I was ...

Lifestyle

Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Leads Once again my information for this article comes from S.J. Simon’s, “Why You Lose at Bridge.” This ...

Lifestyle

Ann Farabee: Stepping stones

   I am a seasoned camper from way back! Too bad I hated it. My childhood family ...

Lifestyle

Doug Creamer: So much worry

            I drove home from work today thinking about my column. That is something I do every Monday, ...

Faith

Dr. Henry Waiters: The beginning of the apostasy in the church, Part 2

Continued from last week After Christ’s ascension, some disciples thought it appropriate to honor him by assembling on ...

Lifestyle

Dr. Magryta: teens and sleep

Teenagers are sleep deprived. Dubbing it the Great Sleep Recession, Dr. Keyes and colleagues looked at the data from 270,000 teens ...

Lifestyle

The Porcelain berry vine

As I was painfully making my way out of the Rowan County Tax Office in Salisbury last week, ...

Lifestyle

Mack Williams: Cemetery return

    Recently, friend, genealogy and cemetery enthusiast Rita and I were  back in the cemetery again, different ...

Lifestyle

Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Defense is Difficult Defense is 50 percent of the game but the least liked. Everyone wants to be ...

Lifestyle

Ann Farabee: Be the one

 For the third consecutive year, an eighth grade girl organized a “See You at the Pole” event ...

Lifestyle

Dr. Henry Waiters: The beginning of the apostasy in the church, part 1

Apostasy is described as a “falling away” or the deliberate rejection of revealed truth. Apostates depart from the ...

Lifestyle

Doug Creamer: What’s the purpose?

            I had some limbs come down during the hurricane, so I worked on getting them up over ...

Lifestyle

David Freeze: Gotta Run

Travel agent finds her passion Years ago, I got a call from Allison Tuck who wanted some help ...

Lifestyle

Watch out for that Wheel bug bite

There was a strange looking bug that fell out of our oak tree earlier last week. It was ...

Lifestyle

Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Counting Careful counting is a lot more than counting high card points. It includes being aware of how ...

Health

Dr. Magryta: Oral health

In a recent Journal Nature Scientific Reports we find a study looking at the link between oral health, ...

Lifestyle

Mack Williams: Requiem for an old ‘science guy’

A few years ago, an old science-guy friend of mine passed away. He was a science guy long ...

Lifestyle

Lynna Clark: What was I doing?

Today marks a very special season. No, not Autumn… though as I write it is September 22. Now ...

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