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Bill Kirby Jr.: Classroom 13 will never be quite the same

On Tuesday, Debra Taft was meticulously sorting through almost every piece of her first-grade teaching literature in classroom 13 at Alma Easom Elementary School. She was in no hurry. She’s been teaching here for 30 years.

They were children.   Just kids.  Innocent and enjoying the trappings of youth as fourth-graders at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, with full lives ahead of them.

Confound COVID 19, the public health menace. About the time we think we’re getting past the coronavirus, it rears its ugly head again. “We are beginning to see an increase in …

You’ve heard about the young at heart. Well, say hello to Bob Matlack. “As 80 approached, he treated himself to something he has always wanted,” Anne Matlack says about her husband. “A Porsche 911 convertible.”

Bob Ray was one of the good guys in our community. He has been one of our longtime lawyers, and when it came to estate planning, taxes, wills and trusts, you could turn to him for the best advice …

Oh, come now, Jesse Byrd would have wanted all of us to know Tuesday —  this day of farewell. Heaven forbid, he would have us know. No grief. No tears. No need for all of this …

Jermaine “JP” Powell is a mixed media artist who has been hard at work bringing this city to visual life at the Ramsey Street and I-295 interchange in North Fayetteville. He’s …

Mark Rice got me to thinking about an old friend who was killed years ago while in his stopped vehicle at an intersection in Guilford County. A vehicle from behind plowed into my friend’s …

I’m not the mayor of the city. But I am somewhat of the self-appointed mayor of this quiet little street not far from the hustle and bustle of the fast-food restaurants just a couple of …

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