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Sean Barrett: St. Peter’s Lutheran and Community Care Clinic partner up

Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church and the Community Care Clinic of Rowan County are excited to start a new ...

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Mack Williams: Slice of country meadow

On my exercise walk several weeks ago while it was yet summer, I compared the comeliness of a string of ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Lead Directing Doubles There are so many helpful doubles to use. Doubles convey information without raising the level ...

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Lynna Clark: Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh

We were headed to the beach for a vacation when the girls were approximately five, seven, and nine. ...

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Jeanie Groh: Saying ‘yes’ to the dress

She said: Saying “yes” to the dress I know this column is called “He said, She said,” but ...

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Wayne Hinshaw: Is our love of the smartphone based in nostalgia?

A few weeks ago, I wrote columns about the use of smartphones and the future of straight photography. ...

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Ann Farabee: Labor of love — or just labor?

So funny. I was in the grocery store and there was a man standing at the back of ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Bridge Club News Returns Sorry to have missed the article last Sunday. We were away in Yellowstone Park.  ...

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Mack Williams: First sheriff of my memory

Just the other day, I heard someone recounting the name of the president of the United States under ...

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Wayne Hinshaw: The trouble with aging

I have thought about writing a column on aging for ages, but aging is not one of those ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Sorry to have missed the article last Sunday. We were away in Yellowstone Park.  If you haven’t been ...

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Lynna Clark: Hold my hand

It was spring break and I had to get home. My boyfriend David drove me to North Carolina ...

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Mack Williams: Another homecoming at Saint Paul’s

I sang again at the Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church Homecoming on Sunday, Sept. 13. My friend Rita and I ...

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Chris Magryta, MD: Some ideas for lessening back to school anxiety

As our kids are now back in school, many are at new schools and even college. As parents ...

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Lynna Clark: A little messed up, or Autocorrect can be your worst enema

Do you ever get a song stuck in your head? Currently I have a Kenny Chesney tune repeating ...

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Ann Farabee: The wait

I love adverbs, especially the one used here: I waited PATIENTLY for the Lord. The two little letters -ly ...

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Chris Magryta, MD: Why do we love food more than good health?

At work the other day, a colleague was discussing her headaches and the meds she takes to control ...

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Mack Williams: Pondering philosophy and music in the ivied hall

When I left East Rowan in 1969, I knew a lot about science, history, English, music, religion (Mr. ...

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Lynna Clark: It was only pie

“I need to hang up mama. My yard guy thinks we have a relationship.” Our middle daughter who ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Salisbury Bridge is unique “What’s different about your clubs?” visitors have asked.  On reflection I can truly say ...

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Rev. Robert Black: Unity in discernment

Unity in Discernment  “Almighty God, may you guide us to seek the Truth: come whence it may, cost ...

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Wayne Hinshaw: Is the future of photography not photography?

Stephen Mayes recently wrote an article for the Lightbox feature on time.com that rocks the mental state of ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Bridge Classes Bridge classes will resume Friday, Sept. 18 at Rufty-Holmes Senior Center from 10 a.m. to noon. ...

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Kent Bernhardt: Give them an inch and they’ll take a kilometer

An old discussion is starting up all over again; the drive to convert the United States from a ...

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Mack Williams: Just around the corner

I recently saw some bikers on the road. Perhaps I should say “bike riders” instead of “bikers,” because when ...

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Jeff Long: Jesus is the key

The other night after Bible school, I was trying to unlock the door at my house to get ...

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Lynna Clark: Perhaps It’s a Southern Thing

t might be a Southern thing, parking buggies nose to nose in front of the Prilosec at Walmart ...

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What are words worth? A question of communication

We go through life trying to communicate with each other. We spend most of our days communicating either ...

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