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Habitat receives local funds as well as federal
I would like to make a correction of remarks attributed to me in regards to the “Conversations with Kay” event at the Yadkin Senior Center. While Upper Yadkin Valley Habitat for Humanity does re...
Apr 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thanks to those who care
I want to heartily thank my neighbors, who came to the assistance of myself and my wife after I was struck by a car on the morning of Dec. 23. I also want to thank Roy Mojica and Justin Bowers of ...
Dec 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the Editor
With unemployment unacceptably high, we need to foster a climate in which businesses can retain and hire workers while maintaining production and investment. Earlier this month, President Obama vi...
Nov 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the Editor
I am responding to the article written by Stephanie Carroll Carson from N.C. News Service entitled, “Women’s Right to Know Act takes effect today” in the Oct. 27, 2011, issue of the Ripple. The ar...
Nov 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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I was having a real good day
I was having a real good day. My wife and I went to Bojangles for our late breakfast, went outside, picked up our Tribune on the way home. I sat down in my La-Z-Boy to enjoy the paper. Right the...
Jun 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Editorial
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The Real State of the Union
Has Barack Obama learned nothing in three years? During his State of the Union address, he promised “a blueprint for an economy.” But economies are crushed by blueprints. An economy is really noth...
Jan 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Get ready to file your 2011 tax return
You’ll be receiving your W-2 and 1099 income forms in the next few weeks. Your 1099 for bank interest and 1098 for mortgage interest paid in 2011 should show up in the same time frame. When they...
Dec 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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Who teaches us how to live—and die?
Alzheimer’s. Just the word scares you to death, doesn’t it? A few years ago, I saw an article that described and gave examples of a new mental test that can make a very reliable preliminary di...
Dec 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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You Decide: Should you buy local?
There’s a movement afoot to change how we buy. It’s not about how much we buy or even the kinds of products we buy. Instead, it’s directed at the origins of what we buy and where we buy. Broadly s...
Dec 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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