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This editorial page in recent weeks has produced as much local discussion of an issue as I have seen in my 14 months in Ashe. I am happy about that fact. The topic has been homosexuality and the ...
Understanding:
Learning more about water intake gives us a measure of control.
8 months ago | 0 | 36 |
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Cutting class
It used to mean kids skipping school. Now school is skipping them.
9 months ago | 0 | 15 |
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EDITORIALS
10 days ago | 0 | 1 |
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Little Wilson yelled at me from beside a tent off the main trail at Boy Scout camp. He was obviously concerned about something. Little Wilson, whose name was actually Tommy, got the moniker becaus...
17 days ago | 0 | 1 |
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And the earth said, “Ahhhhh!” I also heard it saying, “BRRRRRR!!!”, but I definitely heard the Ashe County ground say, “Ahhhh!” The ahhhh comes from the gentle seepage of melting snow and ice int...
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Concern is circulating around the recent challenge to management of A Safe Home for Everyone. Among the fears are that those who need the Safe Home will not know where to turn and those who want t...
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When I think of being really cold, the first thing that comes to mind is a late 1970’s Auburn-Alabama football game. For me, in the position I’m in, Ashe County has offered nothing to match that c...
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Let's look for some lessons from the response to the crisis in Haiti that can benefit the world and Ashe County. The American Red Cross raised approximately $10 million in hours with an arrangemen...
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Frequently after expansive crime stories like the recent drug bust, I get a call asking me to grant clemency from someone’s name appearing in the paper. The seeming request came this time from a m...
LETTERS
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To the Editor: Very few scientists disagree that the earth’s climate has warmed since 1850. A recent editorial implied there is a scientific consensus that global warming is manmade and that cat...
14 days ago | 0 | 1 |
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I am a Social Security beneficiary, and in the past, my has increased automatically to keep pace wit inflation. This year, however, the Consumer Price Index published by the Department of Labor ...
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When I read Ken Lynn's piece on it I thought it may have been meant as humor untiI I read it a second time. The greatest scam of the 20th and 21st centuries is sinking fast. Just see the 31,000 s...
5 months ago | 0 | 11 |
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To the editor: I attended the huskies varsity football game at West Wilkes Friday night, and I heard something I thought I would never hear again, "prayer before a game." The prayer for the pla...
5 months ago | 0 | 11 |
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About two weeks ago I received my annual Ashe County Property tax invoice due to be paid in December 2009. WOW...what a nice surprise. The amount of tax due was exactly the same amount [to the p...
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Much has been said recently about the cost and availability of healthcare. In reading the bill (HR 3200) it should be noted that it is written in legalese, it seems with the intention of confusin...
MORE OPINIONS
9 months ago | 1 | 23 |
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The North Carolina General Assembly, in its seemingly endless wisdom, enacted a law last year requiring motorists to carry coverage protecting them if they are in an accident with an uninsured moto...
10 months ago | 0 | 24 |
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The Ashe School Based Health Center Advisory Board would like to state their support of the New pool being built at the Ashe County Middle School campus. This type of facility will benefit the com...
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The donation last week of $5,000 by GE Aviation to Ashe County High School for science and math programs is significant in its offering and its focus. The donation will go toward the purchase of...
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One of the best things about Ashe County is its committed volunteers. We can’t count all the things that happen in this county because of volunteers, but in honoring the best of hose good effort...
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Face to face Value of Rotary project is to bring us together An interesting exchange took place in West Jefferson earlier this week. A group of five young adults of Middle Eastern ethnicities vi...
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A recent experience trying to navigate the world with a broken $ 10 pair of reading glasses led me to the conclusion that I am both old and cheap. Let’s add to that now “set in his ways.” Is anyon...
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