"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad" — Albert Camus
The following letter from Roanoke Rapids Graded School District Superintendent Dain Butler is going out to parents:
We realize there is probably bitterness today, a lingering bad taste from months of debate on the Chaloner pool debacle.
There was a story we did nearly a year ago — Silent movie without a plot — which described in detail a warehouse used in Rocky Mount.
With the only person in the Operation Rockfish police corruption case to not take a plea found guilty earlier this week, it will be soon now when the other 14 wise enough to take a plea will be sentenced.
From your keyboard, stained orange from the Cheetos and Doritos you have consumed in your purple haze state of bliss, the bong still smoking, you decide now is the perfect time to deride the po-lice.
Obviously, there was a pragmatic, cold, number-crunching side which led to the unanimous approval of Chaloner pool repairs Tuesday night.
I wish to address the new proposed hunting regulations for Halifax County.
The last weekend in January was a great one for our local Distinguished Young Women Program.
Our founding fathers were a brave lot or hearty lot, depending on your perspective and judging from the stuff they ate.
The vast milk and bread conspiracy theorists will tell you there is no bread or milk to be found.
I pondered the occurrences of Tuesday night at the bar at Logan’s Wednesday over a bowl of creamy potato soup, lots of pepper shaken onto it.
Count us in as "naysayers" but not as a "fearmongers.”
As citizens who live full or part-time on Lake Gaston and within the attendance zone of the Halifax County Public School District, we support the supplemental tax which is on the November ballot.
We count ourselves as among the disenfranchised voters, the disappointed voters, the disenchanted voters.
There is fresh blood pumping in the Halifax County School system.