Coming of age with alcohol: Part 1
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Part 1 of a two-part series
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Opinion
Road hazards
Deadliest things look safe and sweet
David Brown
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A lifetime ago, I enjoyed swimming and surfing in south Florida without a care in the world.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Preserving our Native American history
David Brown
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Far-western North Carolina is a hot spot for Native American history, and officials across the region have usually worked well with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to preserve sensitive cultur
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
This copy of the classic Stamps & Baxter “Heavenly Highway Hymns,” once found in many local churches, rests at the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville, Tenn.
Singing schools – a Southern tradition survives
Bruce Voyles
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I was sitting on the front porch of my Hiwassee Dam home, 9 years old, looking up the long “S” curve of Hiwassee Dam Access Road 1314 when I heard a strange sound echoing off the mountains, growing
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Game-changing post-turkey day recipes
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As the final whistle blows on Thanksgiving dinner and loved ones settle in for a weekend of football and Black Friday deals, a new challenge emerges tackling that fridge full of leftovers.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Two of the nurses.
The true story of Mrs. Cleo Williams of Andrews
Kandy Barnard
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This is the first of a two-part series about Cleo Hicks Williams.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Separating facts and fiction
David Brown
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The most important lesson I’ve ever learned about reporting came on the first day of Jay Linksman’s Journalism 101 class in 1980, when I was in the 10th grade at Twin Lakes High School in south Flo
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Why I’m no longer proud to be an American
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I learned the Pledge of
Allegiance
When I learned to write my name
Learned all fifty states
Like it was a game
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Glenn Harbison/The News Observer The route from Marble City to Mineral Bluff includes this stretch on Georgia 60 that more than 11,000 vehicles travel on daily, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.
The local side of a national story
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The first national story, and every story since, has presented the perfect Normal Rockwell scene.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Some only dream of privileges that allow great leeway in behavior.
Immunity’s a real life get out of jail free card
Anngee Quinones-Belian
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When I was young, my parents called me princess, I was always treated well, and even had a pretty pink tiara with sparkling rhinestones.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024