Staff blogs
Jimmo, we gotta do lunch
First, please read my colleague Jim Dodson's delicious essay on homecomings and good eating located on this website. He captures the experience perfectly. During his years in Maine (eating the world's sweetest lobster and other New England stuff) Jim hankered for regional dishes of the sort he grew up with ...
Yankee Doodle Dandy Andy Rooney
I was looking for a blog subject for one reason only: to push some of the embarrassingly old blogs off the cliff. Looks like blogging has gone the way of .... sliders, or Sarah Palin. Seemed like such a good idea at the outset. Then I read that 92-year-old Andy ...
Weather Porn to the Rescue
Catchy name, weather porn, for the media blitz preceding, during and after Hurricane Irene. The blitz is justified if it saves one life or one home. The curiousity is how people feed on it, mesmerized, watch the same windblown reporters shout the same dire predictions every 15 minutes, or until ...
Frank Sports Talk (F.W. Manning II)
Dixie Youth World Series Wraps First Day of Play
Mother nature threw the Dixie Youth Baseball World Series quite a curveball Saturday as showers drenched the grounds at Hillcrest Park in Carthage. The AAA tournament was postponed, although action did take place in the Majors tournaments as all 11 qualifying state championships squads took the field along with host-team Moore County.
Nanners and mossies
Never quite sure how to spell in Australian, or even pronunciate, but this tidbit just in from an Aussie friend. And he swears it's bloody well true: If you avoid eating bananas, you will be less tasty to the local mosquito population. That's right. If you avoid eating bananas, you ...
Bachmann Photo-Op (Ed)
Barely did Newsweek hit the stands when the flap started about Michele Bachmann's cover photo. Conservatives are outraged, deeming it "unflattering." By her own party, she is accused of a "wild-eyed" look. Others called it "sexist," which I can't figure out since she's not showing cleavage. Was it the maturing ...
A Chance in Hell
Regardless of where you stand on America's dual wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, particularly if your support has waned somewhat in recent years, it's important to separate the actions of the 19-year olds who make up most of the soldiery there from the people who keep us there now. The ...
Never Again? Again...
Those pictures are on the news again: emaciated babies with bloated stomachs and lips drawn behind their gums, flies picking at their unblinking eyes. A drought- induced famine in Somalia and other African nations has reduced populations to the same horrible suffering as the bubonic plague, in the Middle Ages. ...
Albemarle is a neat little town
John Chappell's twitter feeds from the Pinelake murder trial's jury selection in Albemarle brings back memories of childhood years spent there. Albemarle for me means old Central Elementary School and the first, second and third grades. It was walking to school on crisp fall days with crunchy leaves underfoot, the ...
Frank Sports Talk (F.W. Manning II)
Heat Taking a Toll on Top Amateurs Today in Pinehurst
Scorching heat made the already tough enough North & South Am. Championship on No.2 all the tougher.
Frank Sports Talk (F.W. Manning II)
Viking Voyage: U.P. Grappler's Trip Journal (Eighth Entry)
The Pilot Sports Team has enlisted the help of Union Pines senior wrestler Mike Brennan, to keep a trip journal so fans and readers can stay updated on how the boys' 12-day excursion is progressing. This is Mike's Eighth Entry
New life at Whisper Lake
After watching for weeks, the killdeer I wrote about in mid-June has produced two chicks so far, with two more eggs still in hatching. The first hatched last night and within minutes was scooting around the nest, his mother watching warily. On occasion, she'd peck on the eggs that were ...
Frank Sports Talk (F.W. Manning II)
Viking Voyage: U.P. Grappler's Trip Journal (Seventh Entry)
The Pilot Sports Team has enlisted the help of Union Pines senior wrestler Mike Brennan, to keep a trip journal so fans and readers can stay updated on how the boys' 12-day excursion is progressing. This is Mike's Seventh Entry
Frank Sports Talk (F.W. Manning II)
Viking Voyage: U.P. Grappler's Trip Journal (Sixth Entry)
The Pilot Sports Team has enlisted the help of Union Pines senior wrestler Mike Brennan, to keep a trip journal so fans and readers can stay updated on how the boys' 12-day excursion is progressing. This is Mike's Sixth Entry
Frank Sports Talk (F.W. Manning II)
Viking Voyage: U.P. Grappler's Trip Journal (Fifth Entry)
The Pilot Sports Team has enlisted the help of Union Pines senior wrestler Mike Brennan, to keep a trip journal so fans and readers can stay updated on how the boys' 12-day excursion is progressing. This is Mike's Fifth Entry
Frank Sports Talk (F.W. Manning II)
Viking Voyage: U.P. Grappler's Trip Journal (Fourth Entry)
The Pilot Sports Team has enlisted the help of Union Pines senior wrestler Mike Brennan, to keep a trip journal so fans and readers can stay updated on how the boys' 12-day excursion is progressing. This is Mike's Fourth Entry
Frank Sports Talk (F.W. Manning II)
Viking Voyage: U.P. Grappler's Trip Journal (Third Entry)
The Pilot Sports Team has enlisted the help of Union Pines senior wrestler Mike Brennan, to keep a trip journal so fans and readers can stay updated on how the boys' 12-day excursion is progressing. This is Mike's Third Entry
Frank Sports Talk (F.W. Manning II)
Viking Voyage: U.P. Grappler's Trip Journal (Second Entry)
The Pilot Sports Team has enlisted the help of Union Pines senior wrestler Mike Brennan, to keep a trip journal so fans and readers can stay updated on how the boys' 12-day excursion is progressing. This is Mike's Second Entry
