Community Columns

Fall Rib Feast helps preserve P.S. Jones High’s legacy

By James and Georgia Smallwood On what was once a swamp, a trash dump, and a school playground, now a beautiful park named in honor ... Read more

20 hours ago by Staff Reports.

Thanksgiving and Christian unity

Many of those who boarded the Mayflower in 1620 en route to the East Coast of North America were dissenters from the Church of England. ... Read more

1 week ago by Polk Culpepper.

A guide to Christmas tree care

Thanksgiving is here and you know Christmas is around the corner! My family traditionally decorates for Christmas the weekend after Thanksgiving. It seems the commercial ... Read more

2 weeks ago by Beaufort County Cooperative Extension.

Let’s Bump it up!

Could that say what I thought it did? I was behind a car on Market Street. When we came to a stop at the intersection ... Read more

2 weeks ago by Bartow Houston.

Wild ducks in local waters

The south side of the county is replete with wintering birds between November and early spring. Last week, a yellow-headed blackbird was seen in a ... Read more

3 weeks ago by The Daily News.

The longest 30 minutes

It was in the spring of my fifth-grade year that I decided to skip school for the first time. Oh, there were to be more ... Read more

4 weeks ago by Harold Robinson.

Write Again … That’s who we are

For almost the entirety of my first sixty or more years — well, from around a little before age 10 — athletics increasingly became a ... Read more

1 month ago by Bartow Houston.

A necessity to preserve a nation

We are living in perilous times. Families, churches and neighborhoods are under assault. And not just by a deadly pandemic. America is divided by political ... Read more

1 month ago by Polk Culpepper.

Benefits of exercise during and after cancer treatment

By SAVANNAH REED There are many known benefits to exercise. Moderate exercise is known to decrease pain, improve sleep quality, lessen fatigue, as well as ... Read more

1 month ago by Vidant Health.

Learning by the example of others

Tracey and I have just finished watching an afternoon of collegiate football and thoroughly enjoyed doing so. I have heard the word “Coach” applied to ... Read more