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Salt of the Earth Building a business together By Wiley Cash  •  Photographs by Mallory Cash The interior of the building is warm and smells like the ocean. The walls and ceiling are constructed [...]

Monument to Freedom In 2021 ground was broken for the North Carolina Freedom Park in downtown Raleigh. Marsha Warren will speak on “Freedom Park: The Inspiring Story of How a Monument to Freedom [...]

Brrrrrrrrrr! Freezing? Get used to it. By Kate Smith “Did you lose a bet?” It was a little old lady out walking her dog. I’m in my bikini, wringing water out of my hair on the edge of a [...]

By Kelly Mustian  Photograph by John Gessner On the second floor of the Boyd House, cloistered in quiet rooms set apart, Weymouth writers-in-residence labor over novels, poems, memoirs, and all [...]

The Suds Chronicles When a cold one comes in downright handy By Bill Fields Some people abstain from alcohol during January, but I don’t think I will be one of them this year. After getting a [...]

January Books FICTION The Maid, by Nita Prose A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this [...]

Winter Waterbirds Coming in out of the cold By Susan Campbell The arrival of cold weather in the Sandhills and Piedmont also means the arrival of waterfowl. Our local ponds and lakes are the [...]

New Year, New You Maintain a healthy microbiome By Karen Frye Your body is home to more than 100 trillion micro-organisms. They live on your skin and in every nook and cranny. It is like a [...]

Centennial Curiosities Mid Pines celebrates 100 years By Lee Pace Exactly one century ago, come Jan. 16, 2022, the inn and clubhouse at Mid Pines officially opened its doors. A paid advertisement [...]

Capricorn (December 22 – January 19) If you agree to disagree with a Capricorn, you may never get the goat off your leg. But if you can learn to appreciate this stubborn Earth sign’s somewhat [...]