Editorials

I've reached that stage in life that I look at the calendar and any week without a doctor's appointment seems very exciting.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about hitting the 10-year mark after my transplant. Yes, I am grateful to be in the condition I am, but I've also been questioning if ailments are transplant or age related.
My thing is called "frozen shoulder." It sounds made up, but a real doctor assured me it is not and it does not feel made up since it hurts like $#@&. I had it a couple of years ago in the other shoulder.

According to the latest data, North Carolina has eight counties who have lost their local newspapers - meaning they have no access to locally gathered and reported news about their governments, schools and communities. The term for the loss of a free press is called "news desert."
The data also shows that North Carolina has other counties possibly approaching news desert status. In recent reporting about North Carolina's news deserts, people who have lost their newspapers are calling it a "structural crisis."

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on July 22, 1976. The Southern Nash Senior League team sponsored by the Bailey Tastee Freeze went undefeated in the Tar Heel Senior League competition posting a 10-0 record.