This year is just half over, and it could get twice as bad.
Some North Carolina old-timers still talk about the disastrous 1943 train wreck south of Fayetteville. It killed 74 people, including the fath…
The Mayor and City Council of the City of Morganton submit this letter in response to the letter published in the News-Herald on July 9, 2020,…
Lottie Moon wasn’t the first female Baptist missionary. Depending on your exact definition of the word “missionary,” that honor would go to ei…
I don’t remember anyone challenging the social rule of covering our mouths when we coughed or covering our noses when we sneezed as violations…
Dear Mayor Thompson, Members of the Morganton City Council, and City Manager Sandy,
Protesters say America’s criminal justice system is unfair.
We Americans have no tolerance for tyrants.
My father’s mission was to tame the stupidity out of me — a powerful blessing too few children are experiencing now.
Dear Community,
Should Fort Bragg keep on being Fort Bragg? Or do we need another name for North Carolina’s largest military base?
June 19 is hardly a date that stands out in one’s memory as holding any significance, nor is the death of the English landowner Charles Cunnin…
I like to make up new verses for songs. All my life, as people like to say. A song pops into my head, and I start singing to myself. Often, I’…
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To: Mayor Black, Manager Eckard, the Five Members of the Town Council (Mr. Thompson, Ms. Stevenson, Mr. Sweezy, Ms. Hildebran, Mr. Ogle), Fina…
There is much about our current president which makes him unfit for office, but it is perhaps most illustrative to look at his leadership duri…
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