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Bunn’s offered much more than good BBQ

It’s been nearly 40 years since the Bryants first met the Russells. That friendship has stood the test ...

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Keep the malware moochers at bay

(Editor’s Note: The majority of this column was written, by me, in September of 2016. You will note ...

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Differences between football and baseball

Born in New York, NY in 1937, George Denis Patrick Carlin died 71 years later, but not before ...

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Robert Earl Brinkley set a great example for others to follow

While majority of patriotic citizens across the United States were enjoying all the festivities last week that are ...

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Say it ain’t so, Bo

Today let’s dive into one of my favorite hobbies: eating! If you take one good look at my ...

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With age comes boundless wisdom

I don’t remember anything about June 22, 1953. My memory banks are void of a car ride I ...

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Do you want to be like Gomer?

In my mind, I can see Gomer chasing Barney on foot while shouting “citizen’s arrest, citizen’s arrest” at ...

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Never lick butter off a steak knife

Do you know the rules? Do you understand the rules? Do you have any idea that there are ...

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Less-than-brilliant criminal mischief abounds!

Well, we’re nearly halfway into 2023 and by now one would think that stories of less-than-brilliant criminal mischief ...

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Chowan…love her ever more!

Fifty years have past since one fateful day in May of 1973 when I heard my name called ...

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How to visit two states under one roof

A couple of weeks ago I engaged in a conversation with Bruce Howell, a Northampton County native who ...

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Word facts that make you scratch your head

It’s easy to peer inside the pages of a dictionary to learn the definition of a word. Old ...

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Names of local towns influenced by the railroad

Our latest Front Porch Living magazine, which is being released this week, carries a theme of how some ...

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Friends are angels with the power to lift us up

Of the hundreds of emails I receive each and every week, there are, on rare occasions, one that ...

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Hey, mister, can you spare a dime?

What would you do with two million dimes? Feed a lot of parking meters…purchase gum or mints at ...

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