One hundred years ago today, the big stories in the Greensboro Daily News were: Pellagra was on the wane in Durham. A local group had been organized to help fight tuberculosis. The local baseball team, the Champions, suffered its first defeat in weeks.
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If you followed the news out of Iran last week, you likely heard reports coming from the social networking site Twitter. Twitter became such an important communication tool that the State Department asked the Web site to delay its scheduled maintenance so...
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My daughter and I went to the Friends of the Library book sale on May 2. We got there early. Each of us picked out some books to buy. When we got up to the lady who takes the little slip of paper so we can pay, she told us “It’s been taken car...
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One icy, snowy morning in February, my mom, who is 85 years old and lives in Stoneville, fell and broke her wrist. She was taking her morning walk. Two people on their way to work, stopped and gave her a ride back to her house. (At that time she did not k...
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At one point last year, we asked members of our Readers Advisory Network to suggest improvements in our news coverage. “More investigative reporting” came through clearly in their responses. The newsroom editors remembered that when we decided...
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We like it when you refer to the News & Record as “our newspaper.” We want the paper to represent you and reflect your values. One way we can do that is to publish your stories and help you get the information you want. Two months ago, in...
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