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Shop local, support small businesses
The themes of bringing the community together, offering quality goods and customer service and shopping local were distributed throughout the Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting Monday night.
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More questions than answers
The community had questions, we worked to provide answers.
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Your answers are coming
The relicensing process for the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project has been ongoing for several years, and we, like many others have had questions regarding how the process works and what have been the issues surrounding this particular license.
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Writing a new chapter
2012 promises to be a year of change in the lives of many people. I know it will be a year of change in my life.
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Building forts
When I was a child, I considered building forts to be one of the most thrilling aspects of creative play.
The earliest “forts” I remember were rings of stuffed animals, dolls and pillows that surrounded me when I went to sleep at night. Mom and Dad would build these forts with me and my siblings at night to keep us from being scared of monsters under the bed or in the closet. They offered a sense of security and became a fun bedtime ritual. -
A bit of good news
Many times we find ourselves focusing on the bad things. We often are accused of only writing negative news, when we actually have both good and bad in every edition.
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Replacing elections with lotteries
There has to be a better way.
Some of us reached that conclusion after discussing the mess our congressional and legislative governing systems have come to. -
Alcoa Follows Through With Threat
The following release was issued Friday morning by Stanly County Manager Andy Lucas.
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Cancer deaths on the decline
It’s a disease that has probably touched all of us at some point in our lives — either a relative or someone else close to us have heard the diagnosis.
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Christmas surprise
My favorite Christmas present this past holiday didn’t come from Santa Claus.
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