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Editorial: Taking Flight With An Eagle, 2 Birdies

  • Apr 10, 2021
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Eagle, by Susan Bellew, who is retiring after 22 years as the first and only executive director of Family Promise, which offers shelter for women and their children who have nowhere else to turn.

Editorial: Stimulus Funds Can Build Us Up

  • Apr 6, 2021
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Last spring, local governments found themselves wringing their hands over what they presumed would be a budget-wrecking year caused by the global coronavirus pandemic and an upended economy.

Editorial: Sharing the Story Of Easter From Gospel of Luke

  • Apr 3, 2021
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The Easter story from Luke’s Gospel: 
When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” And they cast lots to divide his…

Editorial: Airport Business Poised to Soar

  • Mar 30, 2021
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If a rising tide lifts all boats, what does a strong economy do for a local airport? Sends it soaring, if the current experience of the Moore County Airport is any indication.

Editorial: Finally, Someone To Help Woodlake

  • Mar 27, 2021
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The bed of Lake Surf remains boggy and overgrown. Amenities such as a historic old clubhouse and an Ellis Maples-designed golf course have fallen into disrepair.

Editorial: Let’s Know How Success Appears

  • Mar 23, 2021
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It’s been a little over a year of life under the coronavirus pandemic, but finally things are trending solidly toward recovery and a return to normalcy.

Editorial: A Double Bogey, But Three Nice Saves

  • Mar 20, 2021
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Double Bogey, by several Pinehurst residents who, proclaiming to support the “Freedom Matters” movement, went before the Village Council recently and refused to comply with the governor’s order and their own mayor’s repeated requests to don a mask while at the meeting.

Editorial: Finally, Students Set for a Return

  • Mar 16, 2021
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Going by what the state dictated, Moore County Schools has been operating these past two months under the formula of A+B = disjointed learning.

Editorial: Keep Politics Out Of Public Service

  • Mar 13, 2021
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Public service is a noble endeavor, and can be a rewarding career for those who possess certain skills, whether it’s land planning, operating a water plant or serving as a first responder. The ultimate goal of these jobs is to serve your community and make a difference in the process.

Editorial: A Good Outcome On Village Library

  • Mar 9, 2021
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It is too soon to hail Pinehurst for, after more than 20 years, finally closing the book on its longstanding library problem. But the solution announced last week to take over operations — and expansion — of the privately held Given Memorial Library is positive forward movement indeed.

Editorial: Freedom Matters — And Responsibility

  • Mar 6, 2021
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It’s been a year since the toilet paper and cleaning wipes disappeared — the leading edge for what was to become the lost year of the coronavirus global pandemic.

Editorial: Carding an Eagle, Birdie and Bogey

  • Mar 2, 2021
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Eagle, by the late Vergil Shamberger, for being one of those quiet heroes who leaves a lasting legacy on his community.

Editorial: School Staff Are Vaccine Priorities

  • Feb 27, 2021
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The case to reopen public schools for five-day in-person attendance is getting a shot in the arm, literally and figuratively.

Editorial: Corso’s Building Made Us Better

  • Feb 23, 2021
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It’s hard to remember a time when Pat Corso wasn’t trying to improve life and the local economy here in Moore County.

Editorial: A Generous Offer

  • Feb 23, 2021
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In a recent letter on this page, SCC President John Dempsey proffered a generous suggestion to the village of Pinehurst as it wrestles with its future library situation.

Editorial: Extra Bond Money Can Have Impact

  • Feb 20, 2021
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The proposition was clear three years ago for voters: Approve a $103 million bond referendum and Moore County Schools would build three new elementary schools in Aberdeen, Southern Pines and Pinehurst. The acceptance was overwhelming — 80 percent. To date, Aberdeen and Southern Pines are ope…

Editorial: Perfect Time to Hike Room Tax

  • Feb 16, 2021
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Moore County’s travel and tourism industry has taken a massive hit since the onset of the coronavirus last March. Our local resorts and hotels lost most of the spring and fall 2020 golf seasons — or at least those guests who would have booked rooms and stayed multiple days. And business-rela…

Editorial: Sharing the Love For Good Deeds

  • Feb 13, 2021
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On this Valentine’s Day, it’s good to know that love makes the world go ’round. But more important, it’s the manifestations of love, through acts of kindness, generosity and thoughtfulness, that make a community so special. And so:

Editorial: Lawmakers Seeking To Hide Information

  • Feb 9, 2021
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A month from today, The Pilot will print its annual listing of people who owe Moore County taxes.

Editorial: A Warped Speed On Shot Delivery

  • Feb 6, 2021
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If you’re 65 or older in Moore County, your best strategy at this point for the coronavirus vaccine is to go outside the county.

Editorial: School Funding Needs Formula

  • Feb 2, 2021
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Moore County’s annual budgeting method has always been a little unstructured when it comes to its public schools. For years, the Board of Commissioners and Board of Education would look at the current budget; estimate new costs and needs vs. impact on taxes and the county’s overall budget; a…

Editorial: Death Backlogs Are Inexcusable

  • Jan 30, 2021
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It should be old news by now that the Moore County Health Department is woefully short-staffed and falling further behind. Almost from the very moment the coronavirus arrived locally, the department has struggled to keep up with its mission.

Editorial: Let’s Promote AED Locations

  • Jan 26, 2021
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In the event of a medical emergency, the single best first thing to do is call 911. 
But about 14 years ago, a group of local leaders thought it would suit our community if help could be closer and faster. Together, they formed HeartSafe Moore County, an effort designed to raise community aw…

Editorial: Regulation Rewrite Feels Like Overkill

  • Jan 23, 2021
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The contrast couldn’t be more noticeable. In recent months, Pinehurst has either approved or been the recipient of announcements signaling substantial new development and investment in the village.

Editorial: Accolades for Local Accomplishments

  • Jan 19, 2021
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Birdie, by FirstHealth of the Carolinas and Pinehurst Medical Clinic, for establishing and operating what, by virtually all accounts, appears to have been a successful first week of COVID-19 vaccine delivery.

Editorial: Ill-Chosen Words Wound Broadly

  • Jan 16, 2021
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On Monday, we remember one of this nation’s great leaders, a man who effected historic change not through words of violence but the vocabulary of conscience.

Editorial: Put Some Muscle In Vaccine Plan

  • Jan 12, 2021
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Might our worst failing in the coronavirus pandemic yet be ahead of us? Here we are, with two approved COVID-19 vaccinations — developed in record time and now in full production by their manufacturers — and yet we have insufficient means of delivery. Imagine how World War II might have turn…

Editorial: Failed Insurrection Digusts All of Us

  • Jan 9, 2021
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“Jan. 20, 2017, will be remembered,” President Donald J. Trump said in his inaugural speech, “as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.”

Village Addresses Backlog of Needs

  • Jan 5, 2021
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A family can plan its budget with utmost care, but fate will intervene. Just when you’re about to buy a new car, the water heater bursts or the roofer finds a lot of rot around that tiny leak.

Editorial: Our New Year's List of Wishes

  • Jan 1, 2021
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Happy New Year. 2020 is now in the rear-view mirror, even if all that it wrought remains with us.

Editorial: A Monstrous Failure to Protect, Serve

  • Dec 29, 2020
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A month ago, we learned that Moore County Schools had agreed to a $200,000 settlement with a former student who accused then-school resource officer Joshua M. Evans of engaging her in sexual acts back in 2017.

Editorial: Year of Pivoting Yielded Results

  • Dec 26, 2020
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“In doing this, it was survival first and foremost. I knew if I stayed doing what I was doing, it wasn’t generating enough revenue to run that business.”

Editorial: ‘Yes Virginia’

  • Dec 22, 2020
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From The New York Sun, Sept. 21, 1897:

Editorial: 'Good Tidings'

  • Dec 22, 2020
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From the Gospel According to Luke:

Editorial: A Lasting Legacy For the People

  • Dec 19, 2020
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The story of Southern Pines — and much of Moore County — these last few years has been the white-hot home construction market and lack of available land.

Editorial: Coalition Champion

  • Dec 19, 2020
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One of Moore County’s defining characteristics has always been its residents’ spirit of service to others. Our history and tradition is replete with people who have given generously of their time and talents to make this community a better place in which to live.

Editorial: A Double Bogey And Two Birdies

  • Dec 15, 2020
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Double Bogey, by U.S. Reps. Richard Hudson and Dan Bishop, in joining with seven of their fellow North Carolina congressional Republicans in supporting a nonsense lawsuit filed by the state of Texas to try to throw out the lawful 2020 presidential election.

Editorial: Selling Schools Is Good Sense

  • Dec 12, 2020
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The time is nigh for the Moore County Board of Education to decide how to dispose of the vacant — or soon to be vacant — Aberdeen Primary and Elementary and Southern Pines Primary and Elementary School buildings.

Editorial: Large Gatherings Endanger Us All

  • Dec 8, 2020
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Unfortunately, the prediction health officials made prior to Thanksgiving — a post-holiday bloom in coronavirus cases — is being fully realized nationally, in the state and in Moore County.

Editorial: Sweating the Details May Not Be Helpful

  • Dec 4, 2020
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If one thing in Pinehurst has been talked about longer — and gone as equally unfulfilled — as a new library, it’s what to do with the old service district just off the village center.

Editorial: A 100-Year History Of Serving Moore

  • Dec 1, 2020
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It seems hard to imagine now, but when founded 100 years ago, The Pilot and its newspaper kin were the sole form of telling folks what was going on in their world.

Editorial: A Pair Each of Birdies, Bogeys

  • Nov 28, 2020
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Bogey, by one of Moore County’s congressmen, U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, for hewing to the party line instead of doing what’s best for this country.

Editorial: A Day of Public Thanksgiving

  • Nov 24, 2020
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President George Washington issued this proclamation Oct. 3, 1789:

Editorial: ‘With One Heart’

  • Nov 24, 2020
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President Abraham Lincoln issued this proclamation on Oct. 3, 1863:

Editorial: BraveStep Program A Bold Step Ahead

  • Nov 21, 2020
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Like so many other things affected by the coronavirus in 2020, college is one more paradigm that has been turned on its head. Students are more likely to “attend” classes these days via the laptop computer that sits in their childhood bedroom. Many universities have gone all fall looking lik…

Editorial: Shop Yourself a Very Local Holiday

  • Nov 17, 2020
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Normally, we wait until after Thanksgiving to deliver our annual message of shopping local for the holidays, but, frankly, time is of the essence.

Editorial: For Better, Worse Eight Months In

  • Nov 14, 2020
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We are now eight months into the novel coronavirus pandemic and, for better or worse, adjusting our lives around the virus. There is good and bad to be found in that.

Editorial: Good Work Is All Around Us

  • Nov 10, 2020
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Eagle, by Moore County Board of Elections director Glenda Clendenin and all her staff for what, to date, has been a well-executed election under record turnout.

Editorial: Challenge Ahead for School Board

  • Nov 7, 2020
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We’ve been living with this 2020 election for so long now — 11 months! — that it seems hard to grasp that it’s over.

Editorial: Lancaster’s Mask Stance an Affront

  • Nov 3, 2020
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Of all the dismaying things to come out of the coronavirus controversy, the debate about wearing masks may be the most specious.

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