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Over the river and through the woods . . . from mountains to the coast we go for a feast rich in the tastes and traditions of North Carolina By Jane Lear   •   Photographs by James Stefiuk [...]

Mind & Body The balancing power of hemp extract By Karen Frye The golden elixir known as cannabidiol or CBD is what’s extracted in the industrial hemp plant. The use of industrial hemp goes [...]

A Pinecrest star shines on Broadway By Deborah Salomon Numbers don’t lie. The first movie Bradley Gibson saw in a theater was The Lion King. He was 8, give or take. At 17, with a Pinecrest High [...]

Soul Food The greens that bring good luck By Jan Leitschuh What would November in the South be without collards? This cold-hardy green epitomizes the first nip of the Southern winter, when a [...]

From its brutal beginning as a reformatory for “wayward” girls, Samarcand Manor’s transformation into a state-of-the-art law enforcement training center strives to live down its checkered [...]

The Majestic Wild And an unexpectedly quiet moment that shaped my life By Tom Bryant “The silence of snowy aisles of the forest, the whirring flight of partridges, the impudent bark of squirrels, [...]

Unhappily Unplugged Absence makes the heart grow hassled By Deborah Salomon Older Brits say “the lekkie.” We used to call it “electricity,” now “power.” Either way, when a storm knocks it out we [...]

For Carthage homesteaders Ken Riggsbee and Carolyne Davidson, environmentalism and sustainability set the standard By Deborah Salomon   •   Photographs by John Gessner Huff and puff as he may, [...]

It’s a Sign A conversation with two small friends By Clyde Edgerton In a recent Star News letter to the editor, the writer suggested that the presence of a “Thank You, Jesus!” sign in a certain [...]