From the Mountains to the Sea
A 900-mile trail from the Smokies to the shore is finally taking shape. Click here to read our series and see video and photos.
A last look back at '07
Sheehan: The year started with a column about one bully (former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong) and ended with a column about bullying in the public schools.
Bullying was just the start
Sheehan: Jeanette Cinelli noticed her normally funny and outgoing 13-year-old son, Anthony, had grown unusually quiet since transferring to West Cary Middle School. His grades began to plummet, and he became increasingly sullen.
Giving with oomph
Sheehan: It's the day after Christmas, and you've been giving and giving and giving. But with the tax year ending, you still need to sort through that mountain of charitable solicitations and get a few contributions in the mail.
Santa with syrup
Sheehan:We had all eaten a nutritious lunch in the school cafeteria and had returned to the classroom for a public school-approved celebration of 'holiday traditions.'
Jones St. ethics get a bit silly
Sheehan:In the ever-amazing logic of the legislative world, a lobbyist a few years ago legally loaned the House speaker $500,000.
Two sides to every standoff
Sheehan:To meet Garner Mayor Ronnie Williams does little to dispel his image as a good ol' boy, small-town mayor.
Putting pacifism into play
Sheehan:On our visit to Durham's West End on Thursday, my sons brought a handgun, a ninja sword and a black-handled scythe.
Wealth trumps rate plan
Sheehan:It seems an obvious fix: Adjust the utility rates so the more water you use, the more you pay -- with the numbers going up exponentially when you use excessive amounts.
Holding on for holiday
Sheehan:Have you ever driven past a beaten-up old mobile home surrounded by all manner of lit-up, blown-up, flashing and waving Christmas decorations and wondered: Why would they spend hundreds of dollars when they can scarcely afford a roof over their heads?
Omaha shooting echoes '72
Sheehan:Around the country this week, people felt shock and sorrow when they learned that a gunman had killed eight holiday shoppers and himself at a mall in Omaha, Neb.
Price of pursuit is too high
Sheehan:Francine Brown was heartbroken to hear how the Lunsford family of Franklin County lost two daughters to a police chase gone awry.
Toy recall can make you dotty
Sheehan:Laura Brader-Araje had just ordered two sets of Aquadots when she learned about the recall.
State's indecent liberties
Sheehan:How did Alan Gell, North Carolina's poster boy for the wrongly imprisoned and nearly executed, end up serving time for getting a 15-year-old pregnant?
It's a van, but it's her home
Sheehan:Betty Brock lives on Person Street in downtown Raleigh, near the Salvation Army.
Sherilyn has gone home
Sheehan:I first met Sherilyn Adams on her 13th birthday. She was crazy for Johnny Depp, and she was a prodigious shopper -- a normal teen in every way, except that she was recovering from a bone marrow transplant for a vicious form of leukemia.
Escamilla let hate into class
Sheehan:Last week, Robert Escamilla, former Enloe High School teacher, filed a lawsuit against the Wake County school system for a wrongful transfer.
Sharing food for thought
Sheehan:Tomorrow, hundreds of students in the Triangle and beyond will head home for the Thanksgiving holiday loaded down with heavy backpacks.
We won't tolerate nooses
Sheehan:It was little over a week ago that a toilet paper noose was found in a bathroom on the N.C. State University campus.
Vote didn't kill tax fight
Sheehan:You wanna talk about devotion to a cause? Heather Johnson took her 6-day-old baby to the first sales pitch, er ... educational meeting, about the real estate transfer tax, a 0.4 percent tax on home sales, in Chatham County.
Women's tales of the front
Sheehan:Kirsten Holmstedt got motivated to write her book, "Band of Sisters," in the aftermath of the media frenzy over Private Jessica Lynch.
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