by Myra | Aug 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Here’s a letter to the editor written by Sylvia Robine of Mt. Gilead. I know, everyone thinks COVID is over. It’s not. What’s ended is the government’s support of mitigation (or attempting to control, rather than eliminate, the disease). Tracking cases so we can be...
by Myra | Jul 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
My wedding anniversary is June 14, but I have always associated it more with the 4th of July. After a low-budget, two-day honeymoon in which we took the ferry to South Bass Island, stayed in a cheap hotel in Huron and went to see Rodney Dangerfield in...
by Myra | Jan 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to Town Clerk Amy Roberts by Community Garden leader Mary Poplin this morning (Jan. 4, 2023) following last night’s Town Board meeting, during which board members were confused about the relationship of the...
by Myra | Nov 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Speckled Paw was named a N.C. Small Business of the Year at an awards ceremony on Wednesday hosted by Business North Carolina at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill. The Paw, along with the three other winners (Core Technology, Firsthand Foods and Seaview Crab Co.),...
by Myra | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Robert Jordan IV, president/CEO of Jordan Companies, told us Friday that his company’s investing “several million dollars” in a 26-acre park on Hwy. 109 for his employees and their family members. Robert said, “After the recent purchase of Kellam Manufacturing in...
