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Kent Bernhardt: Dave’s real retirement present

On the night of his last Late Night Show, I saw something in David Letterman’s eyes I hadn’t ...

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Kent Bernhardt: My view of the pew

Over the course of my lifetime, I’ve been monitoring the seating habits of churchgoers in the congregations I ...

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Dicy McCullough: Mark Rockwell’s dad ‘walked tall and held the line’

Mark Rockwell and I became colleagues when he began teaching fourth grade at Mt. Ulla Elementary School 15 years ...

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Quinn Scarvey: Camp Discovery

I feel lucky to have called First United Methodist Church of Salisbury my home for almost 17 years ...

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Kent Bernhardt: Grandmother’s new couch

I’m sure we all had our share of embarrassing moments growing up. Most of mine will remain buried ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Defensive discards and sluffs Discussion of defensive play is often overlooked. Most of us want to shine by ...

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Lynna Clark: Biker village

I still feel the dread in daddy’s voice as he spoke the terrible news. “I’m being laid off ...

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Mack Williams: The kid in the forest

Mention the name Brooks Lindsay to people on both sides of the Medicare threshold, and you get the ...

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Linda Beck: Click…click…click

Sometimes I enjoy reading the cartoons on the editorial page. Recently, there was one in the local newspaper ...

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The buzz about the basswood tree

Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! The air was filled with the sound of a thousand buzzes at one time. ...

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Mack Williams: That’s a beautiful carbon footprint

The questions to my workplace started coming about a week before, both by phone and in person, asking, “What ...

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Chris Magryta, MD: On flossing

Flossing has been a cornerstone of Dentistry for years, yet very few Americans floss on a daily basis. ...

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Jennifer J. Doering: Our winter visitor

After being Head Nurse for the Nashville, Tennessee VA Hospital for 10 years, Don decided he wanted to go ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Scoring Confusions Again there have been questions regarding a score of Not Played vs. a score of Average ...

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Wayne Hinshaw: A visit to the Georgia Aquarium

“Just look at the world around you, Right here on the ocean floor, Such wonderful things surround you, ...

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Mack Williams: Winged satellites

This is a memory from about 1958, back in the beginnings of the “Space Age.” But as you ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

June Notables We have now officially entered the summer period. I hope you all had a great Memorial ...

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Lynna Clark: Jumpsuit style

As I flipped through the rack of pants at my favorite clothing store the bright colors and patterns ...

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Jeff Long: Faith as a learned response

Have you ever wondered why some things are just hard to get a handle on, even though the ...

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Sean Barrett: St. Peter’s Lutheran to dedicate new garden ministry

Please join us at Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in Salisbury (2570 Saint Peters Church Road) on May 31 ...

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Mack Williams: Granite everywhere, even in the sandpile

This week’s title brings to mind the quote from the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: “Water, water, everywhere, but ...

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Lynna Clark: A brush with the law

I love my little town. Salisbury, NC has so much going for it. Sure, that includes some crazy ...

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Jewell W. Holland: Alpha Kappa Alpha – Our legacy of love

Through the years, since our birth Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, has exemplified LOVE in various ways. Choosing to ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

This is the most used and useful convention in today’s game. Maybe I’m one of the uninformed but ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Tournament Interest As our local membership has grown so has the interest in tournament play. This week-end we ...

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Mack Williams: Pollenaise

This week’s column is begun with a posthumous apology for its title. Since I’m still in the world ...

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Lynna Clark: Deep and wide

Remember when televisions were deeper than they were wide? We still use one of those. Even our spare ...

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Kent Bernhardt: A secret long kept

It struck me the other night while I was watching a report on 60 Minutes about an East ...

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