January 29, 2012
His name is Toady , not Toddy. And he has a new home. He has a room with a single bed, a lamp, red curtains and a bathroom outside the door. He has new jeans, new running shoes and a new jacket, as well as a new pair of blue bedroom slippers that keep his...
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January 27, 2012
GREENSBORO — His name is Toddy, and he keeps a Santa globe in his tent. As many of us celebrate Christmas, Toddy is probably huddled up in his tent, looking at his Santa globe and thinking about where he’s going this afternoon.
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September 11, 2011
Turn the corner too quick, and you’ll miss the flight handbook behind the glass. It’s 2,000 pages or so of print and diagrams, with only small notations of dates and two initials, written in cursive, near the front. The last notation: 9-01-01...
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August 26, 2011
GREENSBORO — Before opening today to the tax-paying public, the Greensboro Aquatic Center already has landed 34 events.
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August 12, 2011
Everything looks small from the roof of Moses Cone Hospital. The backhoes look like Tonka toys. The people seem as tall as ballpoint pens. Acres of red dirt resemble a kid’s backyard beaten down by too much activity. Then you see the crane, all 180...
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July 25, 2011
GREENSBORO — I saw my South Sunday.I saw 11 men with bay-window bellies, surrounded by a posse of fans waving flags, holding signs and calling themselves everything from The Belews Creek Militia to Mr. C’s Tie-Dyed Nation.
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July 15, 2011
When I told my wife, she laughed. The folks on the News & Record’s first floor — the ones who promote and steer the paper toward your front stoop — had asked me if I’d be interested in writing down what I’d like to do bef...
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May 6, 2011
GREENSBORO — There are no easy answers why Brooks Ferrell drove his car into Country Park Lake and drowned. His parents would love to know why. His sister would, too. All they know is that they’ll gather Saturday afternoon at First Lutheran Ch...
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April 12, 2011
Brigitte Gann wore her angel necklace Monday.Her son, Jason, gave it to her at Christmas a few years ago. On Monday, though, she felt she needed it. She sat in a hospital waiting room, surrounded by family, waiting for her husband, Jay, to emerge from sur...
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March 20, 2011
GREENSBORO — Meet Jaquan Edwards and Tyrick Jackson. They’re both 15, both freshmen at Dudley High. Jaquan wants to be a lawyer or a basketball player. Tyrick wants to be a veterinarian or a computer technician. But they wonder if they’l...
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December 5, 2010
SUMMERFIELD — Ann Sherman still wears her wedding ring. She says she’ll take it off when it feels “right.” But right now, it’s not. She loves her husband and misses him for all the things they shared, like Tennessee football......
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November 4, 2010
GREENSBORO — It has been two years, and we still don’t know who killed Hobo Billy and left his longtime friend, Deborah Moy, for dead.We wish it would be like TV — crime done, case solved, all within an hour.
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October 7, 2010
GREENSBORO — Timm Perry admits it’s hard.He’ll auction off some of his dad Sunday afternoon. He’ll sell at least 30 items — from his dad’s paintings and top hats to his 78 rpm single that outsold Elvis Presley in Greens...
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September 13, 2010
GREENSBORO — Vampires — and all lovers of vampires — descended Sunday on the Carolina Theatre. They came at least 1,100 strong — in black and red, in fangs, cradling fake hearts and toting signs that read, “Once You’re...
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July 13, 2010
GREENSBORO — Summer. A time of celebration. Here are two. One happened Monday night in a grove of trees behind a church off West Market. You’d probably recognize the guest of honor: Kent Bates, 44, a married father of three and a former face o...
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June 8, 2010
GREENSBORO — How we’ve missed you, Boar and Castle Sauce. When you disappeared from local grocery shelves a few years back, we figured you’d be gone forever — just like your old restaurant at the Y-intersection of Walker and West M...
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June 3, 2010
GREENSBORO — Terrell Collins came to Dudley High’s graduation rehearsal Wednesday in his fuzzy bedroom slippers and blue pajama bottoms. He wasn’t nervous. He was excited — or “geeked,” as he’d tell you.
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May 20, 2010
This week, if you catch the local premiere of "Red Dirt Rising,'' the homegrown film about early stock-car racing, you'll hear it started all with the mason jar. Or really what they call "devil juice.'' Moonshine.
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May 9, 2010
ARCHDALE — In a field full of clover and milkweed at least hip high, Gary Lewallen can take you to an overgrown race track and talk about mothers and fathers.
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May 6, 2010
GREENSBORO — At the corner of Bilbro Street and Tipton Court, a few blocks from Shiloh Baptist, you can stand in the cul-de-sac and hear the thump and wail of Charlley Ward’s guitar. It’s old-school blues, a sound Ward has loved ever sin...
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May 5, 2010
GREENSBORO — Now, John Hart has two. The award-winning mystery writer from Greensboro has won the Oscar of mystery writing — The Edgar, named after Edgar Allan Poe — for his third book, “The Last Child.’’ It’s his...
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May 4, 2010
GREENSBORO - Alex Sigmon came home last week, 20 pounds skinnier. He’s glad to be back. He’s fielded all kinds of questions, hit Tex & Shirley’s for his favorite — scrambled eggs and buttermilk pancakes — and hung close t...
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May 2, 2010
GREENSBORO — Paul Morton knew her simply as Marlene. She was 29, a shy woman in a pretty red dress. She pulled on her hem, trying to hide her knees, and moved away from him when he touched her right leg. Or what was left of it.
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April 27, 2010
In Gibsonville, a tiny town of roses and model trains, they have a message for every Guilford County commissioner:Don’t you dare close our library.You see it as soon as you hit Gibsonville’s two-block downtown. There, taped to the big windows...
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April 25, 2010
GREENSBORO — Ed Terrell has this laugh. It’s not your regular kind of laugh. It’s a TV laugh. Or really, a quick cascade of baritone hiccups. Ask him about that, and he’ll pull something from the cobwebs of classic TV. Like the 197...
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