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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. And as this blog has become one of – if not the most – viewed and respected sources of reliable information about Rockingham County matters, I would be remiss in my duties if I did not pass along the following…

The title pretty much says it all: Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll who allegedly died in 1977, was witnessed at the Sheetz in Eden just a few short hours ago.

Sightings of Elvis are not unheard of in Rockingham County but this is the first time in more than a decade and a half that Elvis has been verified as being in the area. Previously Elvis had been riding around in a white stretch limo, including one visit to ...

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

And then some of their management happened to catch a few days’ worth of WGSR Star 47. In particular The Local Buzz with WGSR general manager Charles Roark. Even more particular: a number of recent broadcasts in which Roark was encouraging viewers to talk about their sex lives.

It gave this area a bad enough impression, that those jobs aren’t coming now.

I’ve been sitting on this for a few weeks but didn’t have enough confirmation of it until this afternoon. One source told me that WGSR’s being the sole televised media outlet for the county made us “out to be slackjawed idiots”.

Call it a classic case of one bad apple ruining the whole bushel.

By the way, ever notice how Roark ...

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How long has it been since I’ve posted about those lunatics from the local “Church of Christ” cult? Awhile, at least.

Time to have some fun with them again…

Earlier tonight it was Micah Robertson talking about satanic sex (bear in mind that this is the same young man who recently went on a weeks-long spate obsessing about Abraham’s libido) and Mark McMinnis, who for once didn’t do his whiny act about “…those Baptists made me lose my job in Danville schools!”

But it was the 9 p.m. show with James Oldfield that was so rife with hypocrisy that I literally laughed out loud too many times to count.

James Oldfield – the second banana and second cousin of cult leader Johnny Robertson – ranted for the entire hour about… some caller last week, apparently… who was insisting that Jesus had to be referred to by a specific name ...

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Sheetz opened its first (and hopefully not last) location in Rockingham County this past week, located in Eden at Van Buren Road and Stadium Drive (it’s right next door to King’s Inn Pizza for those of y’all familiar with local geography). I paid my first visit to the new place today and was delighted to get another of their scrumptious Italian sandwiches. Up ’til now I’ve had to go to Greensboro or High Point for the nearest Sheetz. Now there’s one just 20 minutes away! And like all the other Sheetz stores it’s open 24 hours, 365 days a year.

So since this is about Sheetz, like the other two times I’ve posted on this blog about this company here’s that “Feel The Love” commercial that’s been running all summer…

And then there’s this other commercial from a few years ago for the chain, that shamelessly apes televangelism…

Anyhoo, if ...

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Thursday night I had a hankerin’ for pizza. But not just any pizza, mind ya. No my friends: I was getting ready to go out for the night on a very special mission, that might involve some danger. And I wanted an extra-special meal to fill me up before I set out on my quest.

So I called up King’s Inn Pizza Parlor in Eden and ordered a pepperoni pizza for take-out…

King’s Inn is, without any doubt, one of the best pizza joints that I’ve ever been to in my entire life. If there had been time, I would have no doubt sat down at at table and enjoyed the place, ‘cuz the atmosphere is terrific and the staff is wonderful. Bill, the owner of the place, greets you when you come in and he seems to always remember who you are no matter how long it’s been since ...

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