One can be forgiven for thinking that the Moore County Board of Education’s governance style has been schizophrenic of late.
You don’t have to go far these days in Moore County to find somebody building a home. From Aberdeen to Carthage, Seven Lakes to Cameron, lots are getting cleared — onesies and twosies, mostly, but sometimes whole subdivisions.
Birdie, by longtime community leader, businessman and volunteer Larry Caddell, whose decades of service were honored recently by the Kiwanis Club of the Sandhills with its prestigious Builders Cup Award.
North Carolina traditionally starts out its school year by giving its school districts report cards on their students’ academic achievements for the prior year.
There are legitimate reasons to question how a town historic preservation commission works, and its impact on property owners and values within a designated district.
The bricks, glass and stone of Sept. 11, 2001, belong exclusively to New York City, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa. Solemn memorials mark those locations. They are special ground.
Nancy Lieberman stands out in a crowd, but it’s not the auburn hair or the rangy 5-foot-10-inch frame that took her scrappy point guard style of play all the way to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Birdie, by the Moore County Board of Commissioners, for thinking of something the county’s Board of Education isn’t: teachers’ out-of-pocket spending for school supplies.
On Sept. 6, 1936, having just returned from a trip across nine states to see the effects of the Dust Bowl and drought — two months before the next election, and with the country still in the midst of the Great Depression — President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke directly to the American people…
If you were to set a soundtrack to the most recent tourism report for Moore County, it would most certainly be to the hits of the great rockers out of Manitoba, Canada: Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
We now understand much more about the events that occurred the evening of May 3 out in the Carthage countryside. But what we know above all else is that, in a profound way for all, the fatal shooting of an unarmed man who wound up in the backyard of an active duty Special Forces soldier at t…
For almost 20 years, the Northern Moore Family Resource Center has been a go-to resource for Robbins-area families in need — and there has been plenty of need.
It’s back-to-school season, but more importantly for the Moore County Board of Education, it’s back-to-election season.
Birdie, by Paul and Marilyn Baxter of Pinehurst, who offered misty-eyed relief to the golfers and their families in town for the U.S. Kids Golf World Championships.
Students across North Carolina began returning to their schools this past week. Locally, students at Sandhills Classical Christian began their school year on Thursday. The O’Neal School returns Wednesday.
It took Richard Wagner more than 26 years to write his legendary German opera known as “The Ring.” That’s nothing to the N.C. Department of Transportation, which has spent about 30 trying to right the ring at the center of Pinehurst.
It’s going to be a day of celebration in Carthage on Tuesday when local dignitaries gather to cut the ribbon on the new Moore County Courthouse.
Say what you will about Moore County Commissioners Chair Nick Picerno, but he loves a principled stand. And on his most recent position against Trillium Health Resources, we stand on the same side.
Birdie, by the Moore County Board of Health, for finally choosing a new director more than two years after its former director retired.
The Home of American Golf has gotten a workout over the past month, and it’s not done yet.
Moore County has historically enjoyed a reputation of being one of the leading school systems in this part of North Carolina. And yet, it has always been a challenge to recruit teachers.
Moore County has a long history of welcoming well-heeled visitors seeking relaxation and recreational pursuits. In the early days, it was sport shooting, then golf and equestrian sports.
It would seem positively anachronistic that, in this age of cloud computing, artificial intelligence and digital wallets, North Carolina’s courts system still operates largely as it did in 1959.
Birdie, by Partners for Children and Families of Moore County for its sponsorship — for the fifth year in a row — of seven summer reading stations.
For years, animal control in Moore County has been like a stray, a government service never quite landing a forever home.
This is a partial text of the Declaration of Independence, adopted in Philadelphia 248 years ago, on July 4, 1776.
It’s common to think of the Moore County Airport on the outskirts of Whispering Pines as a quaint airfield for weekend fliers and the occasional corporate jet. Only during something like the recently completed U.S. Open does the airport approach anything akin to what is commonly thought of a…
A year ago, the Moore County Board of Commissioners looked at its 10-year-old Land Use Plan and decided it needed updating.
Eagle, by Reg Jones, Leighton Schwob and the whole U.S. Golf Association cast responsible for everything outside the ropes at last week’s 124th U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2.
There’s only one trophy presentation at the end of the U.S. Open, so excuse us for acting a little bit like helicopter parents by saying that we all deserve a participation trophy.
Although it’s not Moore County’s university to claim, the University of North Carolina Pembroke is close enough to matter for a number of reasons.
There is no greater issue for our schools today than student safety. But safety does not begin and end at the school door; it extends to the road network immediately surrounding the school, and ensuring parents and buses can enter and leave properly.
Championship — it’s a meaty 12-letter word. To have or be known for a championship is to be known for successful achievement.
Congratulations, seniors. You are soon to turn your tassels and a corner in your life. The only thing left to do is post your celebration video on TikTok.
Birdie, by the Moore County Teen Court team, which recently won second place in the annual summit mock trial competition.
Memorial Day is an appropriate time to reread Abraham Lincoln’s sublime Gettysburg Address honoring Civil War dead.
Long a crossroads of commerce for Moore County, downtown Aberdeen and its buildings and blocks have built up quite a store of history.
The new neighbors have moved in across the street, and they’re getting ready to throw one heck of a “great to be here” party.
Birdie, by the Southern Pines Land and Housing executive director, for leading the effort to rejuvenate and reopen the Blanchie Carter Park at its West Southern Pines Center.
While a more reasoned compromise appears to have been struck this past week, the future of Moore County’s municipalities — and rational planning — nevertheless remain at risk in Raleigh.
Tradition — not transportation — may have been what engineers had in mind when they built the Pinehurst Traffic Circle in 1956.
It’s just not spring in the Sandhills until you step out the door and experience the hazy air and acrid smell of burning forest nearby.
No one relishes the thought — much less the deed — of euthanizing a dog or cat in an animal shelter simply as a means of managing population numbers.
Eagle, by Jon DeBerry, the director of facilities at Penick Village, and Penick CSO Chris Mooney for rescuing a small but important piece of international history and the contribution of one of Penick’s former residents.
In an agreement over uncollected funds it was owed, the Moore County Board of Education came away not with six figures from state courts officials but with nickels and dimes.
While composing this, I’m sitting on our side porch, listening to cawing crows, enjoying a nice breeze, watching squirrel acrobatics — and sneezing because of all this pollen.
In a plot worthy of Dickensian complexity, the “will-they-or-won’t-they” story arc of whether Pinehurst will finally build a library took its latest twist earlier this month when a divided Village Council agreed to proceed with a slightly larger version than some wanted.But if you think the …
“Everyone has a plan,” the boxer Mike Tyson famously said, “‘til they get punched in the mouth.”
Drugstores, doctors’ offices and pharmacies once dispensed opioid painkillers as if they were children’s chewable aspirin. But modern medicine’s pursuit of pain relief devolved into one of the greatest crises of substance abuse ever written, based upon the false assurances of the drugs’ safe…
Birdie, by the Southern Pines Land and Housing Trust and town of Southern Pines, for working in tandem to receive an important historic designation for the former Southern Pines Primary School site.
