November 6, 2011
REIDSVILLE — It’s been more than a decade since Dani Matthews Roach, 66, uprooted her family ties to Rockingham County and transplanted them in Tiburon, Calif., where she and her husband, Bob, now live.In retirement, they wanted to be near the...
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MAYODAN — It’s not hard to get little girls to wear pink — but boys?It turns out that they don’t mind so much if it’s for a good cause.And it was.This season, the Lawn Stars, 5- and 6-year-olds who were part of the Madison/Ma...
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August 8, 2010
EDEN — Some people called his ideas absurd, such as consolidating Leaksville, Spray and Draper into one town, putting millions into expanding the water system or letting a brewery settle into a nice, God-fearing place like Eden.
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August 1, 2010
SUMMERFIELD — Standing still, Michael Boyte’s 1972 Monte Carlo looks like it’s doing 120. Crank ’er up and the engine doesn’t purr. It growls like a dog on a chain, straining to break free.
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July 4, 2010
EDEN — Terry Widel thought his younger brother was pulling his leg. “Guess who I’m sitting beside?” Ken Widel said into his cell phone, shouting over the noise of a University of Pittsburgh basketball game. “Dick Groat,&rdquo...
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December 6, 2009
EDEN —You have to get off the beaten path to find the Eden Boys & Girls Club. Maybe that’s why I’d never been there until a couple of weeks ago. I went to the club, which is on Harris Street a block south of Washington Street, to wr...
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October 25, 2009
REIDSVILLE — For nearly 14 years, Anna Micciulla was a suit — a hard-driving, ladder-climbing, corporate executive at a medical device company in Boston. But, two years ago, she quit her job, hopping off the fast lane and onto a patch of land...
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August 30, 2009
EDEN — Call him a citizen journalist. Whether he’s rushing to the scene of a car wreck with a video camera or strolling through a festival taking photographs, Roy Sawyers has taken it on himself to show the people of Rockingham Co...
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August 2, 2009
EDEN — I’ll admit that I’d never noticed the burgeoning video sweepstakes business until one moved into the building that was formerly home to Grogan’s. The florist, gift and garden center on Kings Highway was in business in Eden f...
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July 5, 2009
REIDSVILLE — Carole Balsley of Reidsville has multiple sclerosis. Three years ago, at age 53, she never dreamed she’d be able to take up any sport, much less kayaking. But a friend bolstered her confidence, starting her out in a safe, shallow...
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June 21, 2009
EDEN — It was midmorning on May 16, just hours before Linda Wyatt would open Wyatt Auction Gallery, face an audience of eager and experienced bidders, and conduct her very first solo auction. Nervous? Terrified, she admits. It’s a bit like sta...
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April 26, 2009
REIDSVILLE — On one side of the busy downtown street, hell-and-brimstone preachers raise their voices and their Bibles, trying to save souls on the sidewalk. On the other side of the street, a group of downtown Reidsville merchants is passing around...
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March 15, 2009
REIDSVILLE — Darlington, S.C., has a sweet potato parade. Snow Hill, 80 miles east of Raleigh, has an annual sweet potato festival, and since 1961, Georgia has crowned a sweet potato queen. But hold your marshmallow topping. Reidsville may be the on...
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February 1, 2009
EDEN - He packed his long johns, hand warmers, a camera and his rented tux. On Jan. 18, Jim Parsons, a physician at Morehead Memorial Hospital, was off to Washington for a once-in-a-lifetime experience - seeing Barack Obama, the first African American pre...
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January 18, 2009
Come mid-August, when Chelsea Dix packs her bags and goes off to college, she'll be the first one in her family to do so. And she'll pay for most of it with an ROTC scholarship. By the time you read this, the Morehead High School senior, who has applied t...
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May 22, 2008
EDEN - In 1935, when Pete and Jimmy Chandler opened Chandler Drug on Washington Street, you could get pills and elixirs on one side of the shop and shakes, sodas and sandwiches on the other. Back then, soda fountains and drugstores went together just as C...
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April 27, 2008
REIDSVILLE — Tilda Balsley has been a writer all her life, but until two months ago, she wouldn't call herself an "author." Now she can. She's finally earned the title. Her first book, "Let My People Go," was published by Kar-Be...
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April 5, 2008
REIDSVILLE — They are two men whose only connection would seemingly be the name they share — David Wilson. One is black. One is white. One lives in New York City. The other lives in Reidsville. One is 30. One is 65. But venture back several ge...
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October 26, 2007
It's been to Rome, London and Paris. It's made it to Niagara Falls, a Washington Redskins game and to every state in the country, including Alaska and Hawaii. Frankly, this 4-foot swath of cherry-red fleece is better traveled than its owner, Eden's busine...
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