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Kidding Around: Hey, there's a really big game Sunday
Apparently, the Super Bowl is this weekend.
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Kidding Around: Learning how to cook for myself
Cooking is a fairly simple task that most people do almost everyday. Women have been cooking meals for their families for centuries. Waking up before the sun to work on the farm, and then laborin...
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FROM THE PUBLISHER: My Christmas memory
A few weeks ago our editor, Matt Clark, sent an email to everyone at The Daily Courier requesting our favorite Christmas memories. I thought that this would be an easy task. After all, who doesn’t ...
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SUNDAY BRUNCH: The best Christmas presents
Oh, the gifts received and gifts given.
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Off the Wall: A Sunday in Spindale
Brett Hooper, a Detective Sergeant in the Investigation Division, works with both the police and fire departments in Spindale and last Sunday he used his day off to show my son, Gideon around the s...
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Off the Wall: And I love to watch her strut
It started with a twitch in her thumb. One night, oh, goodness, about five years ago, I looked over at my wife, Emily, as she sat on the sofa and noticed her right thumb twitching.
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Off the Wall: Beyond our reasonable doubt
Perhaps, it was the big brown eyes.
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Dark Horses: A national anthem to never forget
The game hadn’t even started at McNair Field and Forest City Owls head coach Matt Hayes was going for the save.
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Is this now a post-racial society?
I continue to hear from an ever-growing chorus of fellow journalists and friends that we have become a post-racial society.
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Another view of the county commissioners
First things first, I speak for myself in this matter. As chairman of the Rutherford County Republican Party, I suspect that my views are pretty close to most Republicans but neither I, nor anyone ...
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Drug courts, a proven budget solution
This May, Drug Courts throughout North Carolina will join more than 2,500 Drug Courts nationwide in celebrating National Drug Court Month. By month’s end, thousands of individuals who entered the c...
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Storm leaves behind twin heartache
They were supposed to be safe. They were home in bed in the small town where they had always lived, where they had always breathed in country life and clean mountain air. They were far, far away f...
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Spindale facing budget challenges
In the interest of keeping the public as informed as possible, I am writing this article on behalf of the Town of Spindale as it prepares its annual budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 201...
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Has the auto industry faced the new reality of gas?
For more than a decade, I plugged myself into the automotive industry, writing automotive reviews that were published in several newspapers and hosting an industry-related radio show with current A...
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By John Trump Editor
Before Thursday night I had little personal contact with firefighters and rescue workers. I was fortunate, I suppose, to rarely require their services, though I have great respect for what they do ...
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