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Fence Post Work Brings Job Offer

I turned down the job offer last week, even in this difficult economic climate, deciding to stay put…

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Getting Out The Sillies With Yo Gabba Gabba

FAIRFAX, Va. — For 90 minutes, I got the sillies out along with 5,000 others, half of them…

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Daffodils Ignore Calendar, Get Zapped by Frost

Heedless of the calendar, a clump of daffodils in the back yard flowered last week just before the…

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Is Chairman Praying Up Storm Of Controversy?

Should we send them to chairman college before giving them the gavel? In his first solo performance, newly…

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Everidge Put Polish On Our School System

His old football team from Yadkin County came Sunday to tell their coach goodbye. So did teachers and…

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Closing 2012: A Promising Year; Hope for 2013

It has been a year. Not the best, not the worst by far. In 2012, things started to…

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The Birth of Jesus

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman…

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Ryan Barnes Catches Whoppers

Young man and the sea? Ryan Barnes has reported in again, this time from the Aleutian Islands aboard…

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Speed Demons: How Fast Before Blue Lights Flash?

There’s a traffic ticket in his future. My 21-year-old stoutly defended his speeding on I-35 in Oklahoma over…

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FDR Edict Moved Thanksgiving For Shopping Rush

Let’s blame President Franklin D. Roosevelt for all this Black Friday shopping madness. He fueled the ever-expanding Christmas…