Came upon this obituary on the website of a funeral home  that is back where I'm from originally.  I find this fascinating, on so many l...

Not for the first time, not for the last, I am smacked with the realization that the rest of my life is going to be dogged by my being the...

At last night's monthly work meeting of the Rockingham County Board of Education , the proposal was put forth that the board should begi...

The message went out loud and clear last night from citizens and their elected representatives alike: "Mayor Festerman, tear down this ...

When it comes to North Carolina architecture, there is no more ubiquitous an example than the humble tobacco barn. You can barely drive hal...

How does one begin to describe Reida Drum ? Nothing I could possibly write would ever come close to encapsulating her feisty nature, her hig...

...it's... me! That was almost six years ago. I really am never gonna live this down, am I? Well, it was a lot of fun running for sch...

The Police Department of the City of Reidsville has as of late last week implemented and begun enforcing a policy of limiting those protesti...

Dear Ron, Five years ago last week, on the night before the election that included the names of you, me and fourteen other individuals on th...

My original plan for this day was to head out around lunch to grab a spot at the back of the chamber and do live blogging of this afternoon...

This community has lost a respected and admired leader... and a friend to many. The sad word came late last night that Tim Scales , Vice-Cha...

I don't know if this warrants a 9-1-1 call or what, but to this blog's readers here in Rockingham County, North Carolina: Be advised...

I wasn't going to make a blog post this late but I was still up working on stuff and this report came from a longtime trusted source. A...

Niall Doran , a regular reader of this blog from Down Under, e-mailed to inform me a short while ago that I was seen on the Australian Broad...

I would pay good money to see that headline depicted as an illustration in the National Police Gazette . It happened folks... and not just ...

So a fairly well-known company was considering locating a facility in Rockingham County that would have put around sixty people to work in p...

More than 43,000 people here in Rockingham County have been without power since last night because of the winter storm. The precious juice ...

David Morris (left) is someone I've been honored to have as a friend for many years now so I know of what I speak when I say this: Davi...

Of all the times that I didn't have my camera with me, it had to be on the way back from a bookstore in Greensboro today... sigh . But ...

Well, it was just "that Star Wars school board campaign commercial"... but at least I can now honestly brag about having made Jay...