With gardening season just about here, many eager "green thumbs" find themselves unexpectedly nursing back pain as the weather starts to turn. Providing you have a healthy spine Gardener's back ...
Financial Focus When Evaluating Investments, Look at Value – Not Just Price
Holistic Veterinary Medicine In our westernized society, alternative forms of therapy and medicine are often viewed with suspicion and occasionally, outright disbelief. Practices like acupuncture, acupressure or even homeopa...
Making financial sense out of lifestyle decisions I’ve often marveled at how many folks spend their hard earned money on external lifestyle products and services. They commit themselves to joining the health club, organic foods, bottled water, su...
Creating jobs by setting government straight Imagine this: A state agency is looking to buy ovens for a cafeteria, and a North Carolina company in your hometown is competing for the contract. But an out-of-state company comes in with the lo...
Still talking about pirates On Ocracoke Island they still talk about pirates. In fact, the first thing I saw as I got off the ferry that brought Bob Anthony and me across Pamlico Sound to Ocracoke was a historical marker th...
Just What IS That Doggie in the Window?
Until recently, most people could only guess as to their pet’s ancestry. The American Kennel Club recognizes more than 150 breeds of dogs and 62 more are considered Foundation Stock. About 400...
The local library has been an intricate, if not an essential, part of my life for as long as I can remember. Growing up in small towns across Eastern, North Carolina, the libraries’ parking lots d...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column asking people to tell us their wedding stories for our upcoming bridal edition. We have had some fun responses and I am really looking forward to seeing more ...
There is a lady named Barbara Meyerh offer that lives in Rhodes, Michigan, and when her father passed away, in his possessions was found this wonderful poem. Ms. Meyerhoffer stated that her father ...
My Aunt Violet celebrated her 78th birthday last Sunday. It’s a remarkable accomplishment for a lady who wasn’t expected to live past her early teens. Violet was born with cerebral palsy and part...
I wouldn't say that I avidly watch Saturday Night Live, but when I do catch it, I like to watch the Weekend Update. From the days of Amy Poehler, I started to enjoy the humorous spin on political t...
Dear Editor, I began this letter with "Dear Editor" but actually it is a "Dear John" letter. Dear John Tedesco, you say you are listening to the parents in Wake County, but are you really? Your o...
Letter to the Editor: October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As America recognizes this month, domestic violence continues in the lives and homes of Americans of all ages. Victims...
After following the national debate concerning the proposed Healthcare Plan, I have come to a conclusion: for the first time in my life, I fear the government of my beloved country. I fear the Dem...
Bet I have your attention now! What could I possibly be talking about this week? Well, let’s read on as I have a little story to tell you. Once upon a time, there was a little town called Drugv...
Who is going to take Erskine Bowles’s place as President of the multi-campus University of North Carolina (UNC)? The easy answer is “whomever the 32-person Board of Governors of the university se...
This month, skiers, skaters, hockey players and other athletes are in Vancouver for the Winter Olympic Games. As spectators, most of us can only dream of duplicating the feats of these world-class ...
“She lived on this island for 77 years and never left, not even for a day,” Alton Brand told us about a woman who spent her entire life on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. Except for the small vil...
Most investors pay a great deal of attention to the price of their investments — yesterday’s price, today’s price, tomorrow’s price, next year’s price and so on. And that’s understandable, because...
The National Association of Realtors has released its December 2009 data on pending homes sales, which were up one percent from Nov. Pending home sales is an indicator of future completed sales, ...