Holiday tip: Save your sanity
Published on 02:00 22-Nov-2009 in Arts, Food, Entertainment, LifeI know what you all are thinking right now. The economy stinks and the daily news stresses you out. You've decided you need some warm and fuzzy for the holiday season. So you're going to create one of those grandma's-house shiny magazine ...
Living in the USA is sometimes like the circus
Published on 02:00 22-Nov-2009 in Snow, Arts, EntertainmentJunior is going out the door to catch the bus to Rosewood Middle School in Wayne County when he turns and says, "Hey Pop, I gotta have 20 bucks for school today!" "Boy, you running a fever or something?" "Naw, but if you want me to pass ...
Mold destroys man's house - and health
Published on 02:00 21-Nov-2009 in Home/Garden, LifeWhen he moved into his lakefront dream house, Ronald Brooke was hale and hearty. One year later, he was a sick man. "My castle ended up being a house of horrors," said Brooke, 65, founder of Brooke Enterprises, a money-management com...
How to dress a holiday table
Published on 02:00 21-Nov-2009 in Home/Garden, LifeOne of my favorite things to decorate is my dining table. Combine place mats, chargers, different dinnerware, napkins, napkin rings - and let's not even get started on the centerpieces and candles. Think of all the possibilities I've put ...
Stars in their crafts
Published on 02:00 21-Nov-2009 in Home/Garden, LifeRaleigh women Lisa Soutendijk and Catherine Shields are feeling like textile rock stars. Soutendijk and Shields, now living in Santa Barbara, Calif., recently had their crochet and knitting designs featured in Interweave Crochet and Inter...
Carol Stein grows it
Published on 02:00 21-Nov-2009 in Home/Garden, Food, LifeHalf of the Southern gardeners I know say growing garlic isn't worth the trouble. The other half enjoy growing it and love the flavor of homegrown garlic. The split opinion might result from differences between two types of garlic. Sativ...
Top Drawer
Published on 02:00 21-Nov-2009 in Home/Garden, LifeLearn how to host It seems that yesterday we were enjoying warm, summer sunshine, but suddenly the weather is cooler and the holidays are upon us. I don't know about you, but I have rolls and cheesecakes to bake but little time to do it...
Natural playscapes for beauty and fun
Published on 02:00 21-Nov-2009 in Home/Garden, LifeThis time last year, the Kiwanis Park on Credle Street in Pittsboro was a fenced-in area with swings and other standard play equipment. The area without equipment was a steeply sloping grassy hill. But the park has been transformed into a...
Throw pillows update your room
Published on 02:00 21-Nov-2009 in Home/Garden, LifeIt takes just moments for Sam June to decorate his family room for the holidays. He simply swaps the earth-toned throw pillows on the sofa for pillows in shades of red, green and burgundy, adds a few holiday-themed ornaments to the firepla...
Rookie cop has a nose for drug crimes
Published on 02:00 21-Nov-2009 in Crime/Safety, Local/State, Life, NewsA different kind of cop now pounds the beat for this town's police department. He showed up unshaven to be sworn in, barked his oath, sniffed his badge and fidgeted for photos. But everyone let the behavior slide, knowing that what he la...
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