February 13, 2009
MOUNT HOLLY (MCT) — Even in later years, when the KKK could barely muster enough Klansmen to hold a march, Virgil Griffin was defiant. In interviews over the years, he remained stubbornly unrepentant for cross burnings, his white supremacist views — a...
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February 12, 2009
GREENSBORO - It's a job for which he was never paid until a few years ago. Yet season after season for 22 years, Ed Phillips faithfully returns to his courtside seat, hooks up an old microphone to the public-address system and announces basketball games a...
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February 10, 2009
GREENSBORO - His father and mother know him as Brian Wilson. He's their only child, the creative one. He played with Matchbox cars in the woods and in his backyard in Rockingham County, where he saw trees as the jungle and shadowy shapes as tigers, lions...
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February 8, 2009
GREENSBORO - Marsha Paludan built her career around movement. She taught a generation of performers how to keep their bodies aligned and agile, to use them as expressive tools on stage. Now the woman who, not too long ago, could lift and swing a 200-pound...
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February 3, 2009
I couldn't imagine who would be knocking on our front door at 7:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7, 1969. But when I opened the door and saw the two soldiers, I knew why they were there. My worst nightmare had come true. Over my "no, no, no's," the Army lieutenant tr...
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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 28, 2009
GREENSBORO -- If you live in the Kirkwood neighborhood, chances are you knew Fannie Kletzien. If you lived there a decade ago, you probably knew Fannie Kletzien. And even if you haven't set foot in Kirkwood in a half-century, chances are you remember Fa...
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January 25, 2009
MEBANE - The Stone House is neither made of stone, nor is it merely a house. It is a gathering place. A sanctuary. A place for solitude when it's needed. Visitors go for a walk. Read. Or just sit, eyes closed, in silence. This 70-acre tract of land in Ora...
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From 1988 to 1992, Paula Trivette of Greensboro served as a White House nurse to President George H.W. Bush, the nation's 41st president. Trivette probably never imagined that in 2009 she and her husband, Bill, would be among those chosen among only 50 gu...
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First Lutheran Church, for its size, was one of the more active local churches as shown by the way its parishioners served during World War II. Al Lochra, a combat veteran with the 100th bomb group based in England, provided most of the information about...
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January 23, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) - Former Gov. Bob Scott, a member of one of North Carolina's most prolific political families who got a retail cigarette tax passed to pay for public kindergarten and later ran the state's community college system, died Friday at the age of 7...
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January 18, 2009
People across the country will admire Amira Black-Watson's drawing "Mountain Graphic" this year as part of the 2009 National Young Rembrandts Calendar. Amira, 10, of Kernersville submitted her drawing for selection in the nationwide calendar after partici...
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Until November, Shirley and Noscoe Wright used to take a shortcut through their neighborhood to get to their Dunbar Street home. Now, they make it a point to drive down Tuscaloosa Street to see the Adopt-A-Street sign that bears the name of their slain gr...
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When Ben Omungu was growing up in Kenya, he didn't dream of coming to the United States and later returning to Kenya as one of the leaders of a mission trip from his High Point church, Green Street Baptist. He and mission leader Robert Steele took 11 peop...
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Name/age: Alli McVann, 47 Occupation: Home organizer and life manager Employer: Allicadabra (self-employed) Years in field: Two Salary range: Around $40 to $75 an hour
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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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The Cliff family, which was in a serious accident just before Christmas in Ohio, is home, and everyone but 15-year-old Abby is back in school. The family has been overwhelmed by the community support, which includes a "Pray for the Cliffs" Facebook group...
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I have had it up to my eyeballs with designer labels and the prestige they carry. My teenage stepson is completely and unabashedly a slave to fashion. He changes his style constantly and will sacrifice anything and everything to keep up with the latest tr...
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This month begins my third year of writing "Making a Difference," and I want to extend my sincere appreciation to you for enriching my life and enlightening our readers by sharing your inspirational stories through this column. Also, special thanks to tho...
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WENTWORTH -- Haley Pickrell is the winner of the Coleman Southard Grogan American Legion Post 79 Oratorical Contest. The contest was held Jan. 8 at Rockingham County Middle School, and the winner received $100. Pickrell, a senior at Reidsville High Schoo...
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January 11, 2009
Would hiking more than 2,170 miles reinvigorate and refresh your career? Your life? For Piedmont native Nathan Adcock, it has. Adcock, 32, hiked the Appalachian Trail in five and half months last year, beginning March 21 in Georgia and ending Sept. 14 in...
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Should you want to know how to tell the difference between male and female ostriches, all you have to do is ask Barbara Cummings, an education volunteer at Asheboro's North Carolina Zoo. Cummings, a zoo docent for 25 years, was honored in 1997 as volun...
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Herb Strader of Greensboro was among three in his family who served in World War II. "All three of us are, thankfully, still living," said Strader, who served the U.S. Navy in Amphibious Forces during the war. He was part of the Okinawa Campaign in 1945.
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GREENSBORO -- Marshall Johnson wasn't surprised when his wife, Beverly, showed up at the Harry B. Caldwell Service Class at First Baptist Church. She knew where to find him early on Sunday. Johnson, who joined the church nearly 59 years ago, has been a fi...
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Despite the temperature dropping into the 30s, the sun shone brightly on New Year's Day 2009. Following our usual New Year's tradition, one started many moons ago by friends Bob and Johnsie Hahn, husband Joe and I put on three layers of clothes and headed...
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