March 18, 2012
EDEN — On the last Monday night of the month, Bob Maryola — “Dancin’ Bob” to his friends — drives an hour and a half, all the way from Keeling, Va., for senior dance night in Eden.For Maryola, 74, and about 50 other old...
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February 19, 2012
EDEN — He dropped out of high school at 16, left his home and his family in Mexico and came to Chapel Hill, where he bused tables in a restaurant.It’s hardly the typical path to success, but for Jorge Flores, it was the first step toward his d...
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February 12, 2012
EDEN — Making Brunswick stew was a fall tradition when B.J. Barker was growing up in the Draper section of Eden.His grandfather was in charge of the recipe, and other family members would bring fresh vegetables from their gardens and farms to throw...
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January 29, 2012
REIDSVILLE — No doubt about it, Sandy is a rescue dog.Whether she was the rescued or the rescuer is debatable.This is the story of how Sandy, a 35-pound Saluki, a rare breed that originated in the Middle East, came to make her home in Reidsville.
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January 15, 2012
MADISON — William Case, 39, can tell you exactly when he moved into the four-room house in Madison.It was April 26, 2011.“Help for Homeless gave me the key, and it just felt great when I walked in my very own door,” says Case, who has be...
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December 4, 2011
EDEN — Driving from his home in Greensboro to the orthopedic practice in Eden where he works has opened Dr. Rod Mortenson’s eyes to some of the problems in the community.Shuttered businesses. High unemployment rates. People struggling to feed...
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November 20, 2011
MADISON — It’s one thing to discover your life’s work at 13.It’s quite another to still be at it when you’re 88.That’s the case with Raymond Wilson, who owns Raymond’s Cars, a used-car lot in Madison. He’ll...
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October 25, 2011
REIDSVILLE — Lights mysteriously flash on, then off.There are screams. Shrill, rumbling shouts of terror.An icy blast of air caresses your neck.
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October 9, 2011
EDEN — Justin Howard just wants to find ways to help others. But he has cerebral palsy and, as you might expect, his opportunities to volunteer and help others are limited. That didn’t stop his family from searching diligently for a place wher...
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September 25, 2011
REIDSVILLE — If you’re not a regular reader of Car and Driver magazine — even if you’re not a car lover — you’ll still want to pick up the October issue. Flip to Page 32. That’s where you’ll read about a you...
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September 4, 2011
REIDSVILLE — Steve Hale saw house fires, ice storms, floods and tornadoes before he retired as Rockingham County’s Emergency Services coordinator at the end of 2010. But now he thinks another disaster may be in the making.
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August 28, 2011
The call came at night. There was no name — only the voice of a man telling me that he knew about a homeless man living in a tent at the end of a gravel road. No phone number. No address. Only the name of that road.
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August 14, 2011
EDEN — When Lisa Shively set out to write her first cookbook in 2001, she had no idea her little project was going to be a recipe for success, catapulting her to the national food scene.
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July 31, 2011
EDEN — Tommy Amburn has no idea how many pairs of shoes he wore out on the concrete dance floor at the old Lynrock swimming pool in the mid-1960s. He’ll get the chance to give another pair a workout on Saturday, when the Steppin’ Out Sha...
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July 17, 2011
REIDSVILLE — Addie Glass has heard just about every down-on-your-luck story there is to tell: people who have endured job losses, foreclosures, house fires, grief and illnesses. She knows all about parents who can’t afford to buy back-to-schoo...
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July 3, 2011
EDEN — Ron Martin and Marco Zanzi are kindred spirits. They both love acoustic music. Martin plays guitar; Zanzi plays banjo, among other instruments. They are both big fans of the Beatles and the Byrds. And they both live along the foothills in bor...
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June 5, 2011
STONEVILLE – If you think of the big events that happened in 1937 – the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge, the explosion of the Hindenburg, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart – it would be easy to overlook the beginnings of a little gar...
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May 22, 2011
Ruth Cummings is never alarmed when she sees a stranger walking through her yard. When you have a garden full of windmills you expect to attract attention. The windmills — 19 of them — spin in the lot beside her home on Setliff Road, northwest...
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May 8, 2011
EDEN — Four young people, who come from Delaware, Northern Virginia, Minnesota and New York, have decided to put down roots in Eden. Literally.
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April 24, 2011
EDEN — Crab apple jelly is $4. You can pick up socks for a buck or a candy bar for 25 cents. And, a few weeks ago, somewhere in the crowd, they were giving away puppies. Free.
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April 10, 2011
REIDSVILLE — Jack Jones was partial to cowboy hats, red tractors and farming. A bit on the quiet side, he did enjoy telling folks that his picture was on the walls at two banks, but he always added that it hadn’t shown up yet at the post offi...
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March 27, 2011
REIDSVILLE — Kristopher Wilson has one of those enviable handshakes: firm, steady, and he locks eyes with you as he introduces himself. You can’t help but be impressed. Especially when you consider that he’s only a second-grader.
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March 13, 2011
REIDSVILLE — Go ahead. Call them Yankees. Eric Clamage and Beth Bass can take it. Their neighbors along N.C. 150, east of Reidsville, tease them about the color they painted their barns. “Yankee green,” the neighbors call it. It&r...
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February 27, 2011
EDEN — You might say the Tredways are accidental preservationists. In 2009, when Guerrant and Janet Tredway bid on the rundown, two-story house on Center Church Road in Eden, they had no idea that the home on the auction block was a significant piec...
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February 13, 2011
BETHANY COMMUNITY — I don’t know about the deer and the antelope, but there is a home where the buffalo roam in Rockingham County. Actually, they are bison, 10 of them, animals that have been referred to as buffalo since they were spotted roam...
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