March 7, 2010
Harley-Davidson riders cannot be stereotyped. On Thursday, Feb. 25, women aged 20-something to 60-something gathered at Wolf Creek Harley Davidson in Reidsville for a Ladies Only Garage Party.
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February 7, 2010
Free money. It’s not often that you hear those two words without a catch. In this case, the catch is healthy for everyone involved. The Rockingham County Cooperative Extension Service has received funding from the Reidsville Area Foundation t...
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December 27, 2009
Do you have your black-eyed peas, collard greens and ham hocks ready to cook New Year’s Day? Eating peas is supposed to bring prosperity because they swell when cooked. Greens symbolize money.
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December 13, 2009
When I was a kid, my parents used to load us three children into the car on December weekend nights and we’d drive around looking at Christmas lights. While Daddy drove, Mama would lead us all in singing Christmas carols. The fact that none o...
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November 29, 2009
The refrigerator door closing on the last of the Thanksgiving leftovers signals the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, my least favorite time of the year.
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November 15, 2009
Have you ever lost a dog or cat and gone to the animal shelter to look for it? The hopeful “pick me” looks of the animals will break your heart. Two years ago when our daughter’s beloved beagle disappeared, we checked the Reidsville ani...
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November 1, 2009
This morning while you’re finishing your coffee and munching on the Reese’s filched from your child’s trick-or-treat bag, you may be contemplating hauling the jack-o’-lantern to the compost pile. Before you toss it, have you ever s...
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October 18, 2009
Be honest. Do you have an exercise bike that you use as a clothes hanger? I grew up with one of those permanently parked in a corner of my parent’s bedroom and swore I’d never buy one. I’ve kept that promise to myself. Instead, I bought...
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October 4, 2009
Did you know that chickens have ear lobes and that their color indicates the color the hen’s eggs will be? I didn’t until I was educated by A.J. Jorsey, an 11-year-old chicken farmer from the Reidsville area.
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September 20, 2009
Don’t you love September? The heat and humidity of August start to fade, and the sky is so blue that if you saw it in a photograph, you would think it was touched up. This time of year, I always want to be outdoors. Last Sunday, I finally got myse...
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September 6, 2009
At the downtown Reidsville farmers market, greetings and hugs seem to be exchanged nearly as often as money and vegetables. In the half-hour or so I was there, I witnessed quite a few reunions of folks who hadn’t seen one another in a while and jus...
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August 23, 2009
Have you ever had this happen to you? You’re bopping along through your life, doing all the day-to-day busy tasks, working at your job, having a little fun here and there, and bam! You turn 50. Or 40 or 60 or some other such birthday ending in &ldqu...
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August 9, 2009
It’s almost impossible to be incommunicado these days. Besides phones, fax machines, text messages and e-mail, there’s YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and no doubt other methods of communication that I’m not acquainted with yet. So...
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July 26, 2009
As a person with a deep connection to the past, Barry Hartman made a home on his grandmother’s farm in Stoneville when he retired from the Air Force in 1996. “As a kid, I grew up in this old house,” said Hartman, who’s 51. “W...
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July 12, 2009
Before I talked to Bill Davis of Reidsville Bicycles, I had no idea what a criterium was. Now, I have visions of bicyclists swishing through corners and blasting across finish lines as spectators cheer from the sidewalks, giving downtown Reidsville a fest...
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June 28, 2009
When I was a child, on most summer evenings we found a jar, punched holes in the lid and went outside to catch lightning bugs. We’d run around the yard, our bare feet getting cold and wet from dew forming on the grass, until Mama called us into the...
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June 14, 2009
Every time I drive by the water tower on Scales Street in Reidsville, I want to stop and wander through the rose garden planted next to it. Peering out my car window, I can see the pinks fade into yellows and yellows into reds. I can practically sme...
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May 31, 2009
Are you a closet artist? Do you stalk hummingbirds with your digital camera? Or design and crochet your own hats? Maybe you write songs, poems, or short stories? Well, it’s time to let your friends and neighbors admire your work. The Rockingh...
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May 17, 2009
When I was growing up, I thought “community” was strictly a geographical term referring to where we live. Rockingham County has many small communities that some newcomers don’t realize exist. I live in Bethany. There’s Oregon Hill......
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May 3, 2009
April 20-25 was Clean Up Week at the Rockingham County Landfill. While my husband, Tim, waited patiently in line to discard our unsalvageable junk and joked with a deputy assigned to direct traffic during the busy week, I was Dumpster diving at our daught...
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April 19, 2009
“I will go to jail before they take my dog,” said an emotional Diane Ritchey. “That’s a part of me as much as anything. The dogs are as homeless as we are.”
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April 5, 2009
In the early days of country music, celebrities were accessible. They played at armories, dance halls and high school auditoriums. In the fall of 1954, Reidsville resident Carlton Haney, 81, met Bill Monroe, later known as “The Father of Bluegrass......
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March 22, 2009
Soft spring mornings sparkling with blossoms and birds’ songs make me want to pull out my gloves and gardening trowel and plant seedlings. For Sam and Deborah Crumpton, owners of Running Pine Herb Farm, spring is the busiest time of the year b...
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March 8, 2009
Bill and Susan Davis of Reidsville Bicycle have a running joke between them. Whenever they are swept away by the high level of customer service they receive at a downtown Reidsville store, one looks at the other and facetiously says, “Just like New Jers...
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February 8, 2009
My husband, Tim, was raised on a farm on Bald Hill Loop Road in the Intelligence community. His great-aunt and grandmother grew and preserved most of their food, trading fresh eggs for milk with a farmer up the road. Often, new ideas are nothing more th...
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