February 5, 2012
Last week, Keith and Lisa Duncan and Mack McKinney sat in the Duncans’ sunlit den talking about their hiking trip to Glacier National Park in August.It was unseasonably warm outside for a January. In Eden, Patrick Street looked like April: forsyth...
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January 22, 2012
EDEN — The large fish tank in Lisa Gammons’ fourth-grade classroom at Leaksville-Spray Elementary is full of water and water-circulating coils.Tiny fertilized rainbow trout eggs will be delivered to Gammons’ room this month. Before long......
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January 8, 2012
Thanks to volunteers and generous anonymous donors, a new roof was added to the outdoor kennels of the Rockingham County Humane Society over the holidays.The shelter will keep the dogs dry in rainy weather and warmer on winter days. Volunteers plan to add...
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December 25, 2011
For many of us, the Christmas season ends today. New Year’s Eve parties will finish the year and we’ll anticipate the next one.But in our country’s earlier years, when Colonies still belonged to England, Twelfth Night was celebrated. Twe...
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December 11, 2011
Wally White, Eden native, actor, screenwriter and singer, has added author to his resume. His first book, “Christmas Travelers,” is out in time for the holidays.Wally grew up in Eden, the son of Gray and Judy White and brother of Kenneth White...
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November 27, 2011
Notice The Salvation Army red kettles are out in front of the stores before Thanksgiving this year?Mae Harris, known by everybody as Major Mae Harris, the force that led volunteers to build The Salvation Army building and church on Morgan Road, believes C...
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November 13, 2011
EDEN — Ever thought about what life would be like without city government? Perhaps you wondered if we could get along without police, water, sewer and transportation services? What about no leaf pickup in the fall?
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October 30, 2011
WENTWORTH — Rockingham Community College’s first classes were held in 1966.Now, 45 years later, a new and fourth president, Michael S. Helmick, has been inaugurated.
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September 29, 2011
The sky is not falling. This national economic quagmire may seem like the end of time.The Reidsville Area Foundation, the Rockingham Education Foundation and many other groups and individuals are working hard at what to do during tough times .
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September 18, 2011
The Tuttle Farm Corn Maze and Fall Activities is a showcase of seasonal delights for children and families. The season began Saturday and continues through the first week in November on Titan Berry Road, a long road that turns off N.C. 135 near the well-k...
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September 11, 2011
The Rockingham County Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and Kinship Caregivers Program is a treasure to behold.
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August 21, 2011
I didn’t hesitate to accept an invitation to tour the old McCollum home place in Rockingham County’s Pleasantville community with its slave quarters and a cemetery divided into two sections — one for white McCollums and the other for the...
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August 7, 2011
Working outdoors in produce can be dangerous to your health. Just ask Barbara Dillon Brown, owner (with her husband, Johnny) of King’s Highway Produce Market on the curve connecting Bridge Street and King’s Highway in Eden.
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July 24, 2011
Fifty is old? A recent news article said that baby boomers and others over 50 should start thinking about getting older, or to put it more delicately, learn to live with the “A word” (for aging). Readers under 50 may want to skip this column......
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July 10, 2011
Dena Harris blithely calls herself an overachiever, and that’s an understatement. This Rockingham County resident juggles writing, public speaking, publishing, volunteering, marriage, homemaking and full-time (I mean FULL-time) adjusting to life wi...
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June 26, 2011
Want to dance? Want to get in shape? Want to lose weight? Walk by J.R.’s Archery building on Henry Street in Eden almost any night or Saturday morning and hear the beat of Latin American music. Inside, 15 or so Zumba Addicted Peeps are moving to th...
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June 12, 2011
The Rockingham County Board of Elections — of which I am a member — has a new home, and the public is invited to check it out at an open house next week. Once housed in the county’s Governmental Center in Wentworth, the elections office...
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May 15, 2011
EDEN — For 17 months, members of the seat replacement team for Morehead High School’s Duane Best Scholarship Fund have been brainstorming how to raise enough money to replace 1,700 badly worn seats in the school auditorium. Their slogan? &ldqu...
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May 1, 2011
An eager elementary school student in a school newspaper meeting asked: “Where do you get ideas for stories?” Not giving her question too much thought, I said: “Stories are everywhere — people, places and things.” She was go...
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April 17, 2011
Bob Carter, Rockingham County’s historian, recalls childhood trips with his father to visit an area outside of Reidsville then called “old iron works.” Today, most people know only the name Iron Works Road in connection with the spot wh...
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April 3, 2011
Not everyone knows that Eden has commissions and committees made up of City Council-nominated volunteers who help enhance our local government. Reidsville, Madison and Eden all have volunteers who are members of individual historic preservation commission...
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March 20, 2011
EDEN — Rockingham County offers abundant land, time and a quiet rural setting to those who move here. One such resident, Peter T. Deutermann, a retired Navy officer and novelist, and his wife, Susan, found farmland in Reidsville where he helps her...
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March 6, 2011
Mark Martin and James Wilkes are passionate and deeply involved in the adventure of beekeeping. Martin even calls his worker bees and the Queen bee in his hive “the girls.” The two men’s work in apiculture, or beekeeping, is as imp...
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February 20, 2011
The sign on the wall at the Family History Center at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reads: “Genealogy: #1 Hobby.” That helps explain why the center provides an important service by offering free access to anyone who wants to f...
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February 6, 2011
A lucky guest at a raffle on April 30, during the annual Wine and Dine fundraiser for the Rockingham County Fine Arts Festival, will win a 4x4 painting, “Hayfield,” donated by the artist, Leigh Rodenbough. Rodenbough is a longtime member of T...
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