Editorials

My wedding band quit being a perfect circle decades ago.
It's sort of egg shaped, with bends, turns, twists and lots of scratches. The damage was done over time and it's been reworked through fence building, goat wrangling, child wrangling, chicken chasing, dog walking, ice hockey, golf, basketball, softball, target shooting, hand holding, hospital bed railing clutching, banjo fretting, breaking stuff, incorrectly fixing stuff, using a smoker, and typing.

This week's news brings a town-wide fiasco due to a mandate from the Town of Nashville to implement backflow prevention devices.
I recall when reading the notice actually asking a long-time friend and retired plumber his advice. His response was that prevention devices were absolutely unnecessary in environments such as ours and most all office/retail and home locations.
I realized our notice had arrived back in May, and our 90 day deadline had passed to have the device installed. So I hurriedly moved forward, since the town had issued a mandate threatening to charge $300 per month fine for every month of being non-compliant.

Dear editor:
Why does the Methodist Church, or the trustees, as not all members, feel the need to demolish a 122 year-old home, that is listed on The National Register of Historic Places District, established in 1987 by the US Department of the Interior, which encompasses this home?
Why doesn't the Church do what's right for not only the church, but the community? Isn't the Church supposed to be a steward to the community as well?

Dear editor: Republicans have done it again- said one thing and done another. Aren't they the ones always questioning Election integrity? Where is the integrity in redistricting congressional lines to favor themselves in a mid-term Election? Lines are drawn every 10 years after the Census, NOT every 5.
Republicans in the General Assembly carved up Congressional District 1 to favor their Party in the 2026 Election. They, obviously, feel their candidates are incapable of running on the issues and their own merits and have "robbed" the very people they took an Oath to protect...ALL the citizens of North Carolina.

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on Oct. 18, 1962. There were no names listed of the children in the 1962 caption. Carolina Power & Light Company had the winning float in the 1962 Harvest Festival Parade.