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Lost. And found.

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:37:32 -0500

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 feet warm.

And he has family. And they have him.

In snow globe, he sees Christmas year-round

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:32:34 -0500

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.

Jeri Rowe: Memories of Sandy Bradshaw live in abundance

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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 . The two initials: SB.

Olympic trials coming to town

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:43:33 -0400

GREENSBORO — Before opening today to the tax-paying public, the Greensboro Aquatic Center already has landed 34 events.

$200 million expansion reinvigorates hospital

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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 feet of it. It looms above everything — including Landon Wyatt .

The Bubbas cavort

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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.

Jeri Rowe: Before I die, here’s what needs doing

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:06:02 -0400

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 before I die.

A family's grief

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Fri, 06 May 2011 10:03:58 -0400

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 Church, their church, to say goodbye.

She’s learning how to live

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:42:21 -0400

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 surgery.

Help and hope: A better fate for black men

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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’ll make it.

Here’s how they see it:

A new legacy for the man who loved music and life

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 03:00:00 -0500

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, the Greensboro Symphony and their two girls, Beth and Becky.

Fire death at 'The Castle' unsolved after two years

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 03:00:00 -0400

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.

Son reluctantly auctions items from The Old Rebel's collection

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:00:00 -0400

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 Greensboro.

'True Blood' comes to Greensboro

"Jeri Rowe ()", "Melissa Umbarger ()" — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:00:00 -0400

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 Bit You Never Quit.’’

Finding, going home: Two celebrations

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:00:00 -0400

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 of WFMY.

Greensboro Senior High alums revive classic sauce

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:00:00 -0400

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 Market.

He took care of business

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:28:42 -0400

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.

'Rising' cruises through old, rural South

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:00:00 -0400

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.

Archdale man's film revisits the start of the racing South

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Sun, 09 May 2010 03:00:00 -0400

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.

Jeri Rowe: Blues blood in the veins

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Thu, 06 May 2010 03:00:00 -0400

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 since he saw B.B. King perform live in Chapel Hill.

Author's mystery books keep winning awards

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Wed, 05 May 2010 03:00:00 -0400

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 second Edgar. He won his first in 2008 for “Down River,’’ his second book.

Alex Sigmon is at peace, now that he's back from Iraq

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:00:00 -0400

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 to home for his first home-cooked meals in nearly a year.

Greensboro man’s trip to Haiti helps quake victims walk again

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:00:00 -0400

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.

Gibsonville residents see library as center of community

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:00:00 -0400

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 of the red-brick storefronts, is a light-green flier with a headline that shouts, “Help Keep Our Library Open!”

Jeri Rowe: Ed is all about living, singing, laughing

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:00:00 -0400

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 1970s show “Welcome Back, Kotter” and its nerdy character with the curly hair.