This is Moore Country

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This is Moore County: Doris Dunn

Doris Dunn lives to help others. In her spare time, she runs a community coalition in the house where her grandmother, Cora Lee Person, raised her in Eagle Springs.

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This is Moore County: Nick Reed

Pinecrest High School senior Nick Reed hopes to find more local WWII veterans to interview as the community celebrates Veterans Day.

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This is Moore County: A Young Perspective on 9/11

As we pause to remember what happened 10 years ago on Sept. 11, it's easy to forget that most of Moore County's younger residents were too young to understand the horrific events that forever changed the United States.

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Alice Thompson

Taylortown resident Alice Thompson has many fond memories of attending school and teaching at Academy Heights. As the year-round elementary school closed at the end of the 2010-2011 year, Thompson recalls the work she put into keeping the school open many years ago and its lasting legacy in the community.

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Gail George

Gail George, owner of GWG Wig Boutique in downtown Southern Pines, is a true businesswoman.

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Shorty Brown

Moore County native Shorty Brown finds satisfaction living the simple life of a tractor mechanic and a farmer. Brown lives and works on the land he was raised on between Carthage and Robbins.

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Edward Burr

Edward Burr is a caddy at Pinehurst Resort, and he's seena lot of different people play the courses over the years. After years at the golf course, he says he has some pretty interesting stories from the job.

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Lindsay Lovin: Greeting the Famous

Lindsay Lovin works at the Pine Crest Inn as a bartender. And in the last eight years she's been working there, she says she's seen some pretty famous faces.

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The Education of Sam Jordan

Sam Jordan and Fred Renner exchange excited smiles when they look at the GED in the office of Jordan’s auto body shop. It’s new, acquired in May, when Jordan was 45 years old, and he says he shows it off to everyone who comes in.

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Brent Shockley

Brent Shockley is only 23 years old, but is already the proprietor of his own business in Southern Pines.

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Dave Talbert

To kick off the Moore Faces series, we caught up with Dave Talbert, who owns Talbert’s, a barbecue stand in Southern Pines.

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