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Details are finalized for our college football fantasy league: Fall Paw Ball will officially begin with draft night at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 22 (Wednesday) at the Paw. You're invited to participate. All you have to do is show up. Cost is $10. It's easy to play – you pick...

By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • The Ten Days of Uwharrie, which is happening all over Montgomery County Oct. 19-28, is such a big deal that it’s been designated North Carolina’s official outdoor festival for 2018. So...

By Bob Tedder • I am a strong supporter of mining free book bins with an eye toward rescuing old favorites from the tides of obsolescence. Such was the case with my “rehoming” of Roy J. Cook’s slim “One Hundred & One Famous Poems,” a collection that first appeared...

By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • The most recent edition of Our State magazine has a story, “The Mystery of Badin Lake,” about 2nd Lt. Charles McDaniel, USMC, and how his wife Mary and others looked skyward in 1944 as he...

By Bob Tedder • For the past several years I’ve peripherally participated in North Carolina’s annual Middle School Battle of the Books. As a result, I’m exposed to and read 25-27 young adult-themed books per annum. I’m here to tell you that, amidst the dross in this...

From a press release • “North Carolina in the Great War,” a traveling exhibit about World War I, is on display at Town Creek Indian Mound through Aug. 12. “It’s an excellent opportunity to learn more about the war, and North Carolina’s role in it, for folks who might...

By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • If “octo” means “eight” in Latin and “dece” means “ten” … then why is August the eighth month of the year and October the tenth month of the year? Some say that the original Roman calendar...

By Bob Tedder • To quote author Warren Bingham, his book “George Washington’s 1791 Southern Tour” is an essay not a thesis.” This reviewer will add that it’s an excellently executed one at that. Bingham, while a student at Mt. Gilead Elementary School, “fell in love...

By Kyle Poplin • Members of two statewide organizations have concluded that Mt. Gilead “can become a destination town for vacationing and permanent residency” if it markets itself correctly and takes advantage of current resources, including a downtown area that could...

By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • We willfully stand in line for dinner or a movie assuming it is going to bring us pleasure when we are finished. We willfully get a flu shot hoping it will keep us from getting sick. We go...