Opinion
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Jones: Wanna bet there’s madness in March
Has “March Madness” driven you mad already? Certainly, yes, if you follow a certain team based in Chapel Hill. Blowing a 19 point lead and losing to VCU 82-78 in overtime in the first round will make for an interesting offseason.
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McGill: Worship Jesus in troublesome seas
As I sit here on Sunday, March 15 to pen this week’s devotional column, I am keeping a close eye on the pending storm that weather forecasters tell us is on the way. According to their predictions, heavy winds and rain are bound for the coast of North Carolina. The…
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Hood: Social disconnection is everyone’s problem
RALEIGH — I have a large and loving family, many cherished friends and colleagues, daily opportunities for meaningful work and enjoyable play, and countless other blessings. Still, on occasion, I feel lonely and disconnected.
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Wagner: Dear Crabby Answers Your Questions
The older ones among us doubtless remember. Back in the day, people would write in to advice columnists who would answer those questions in newspapers around the country. The most famous of them all, I am quite certain, was Dear Abby. People would write to her with short questions, and…
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Jones: News & notes on this & that
Well, Bladen County sent a nice little surprise in the mail. Our property is worth 117% more now than it was four years ago. That’s based on the Notice of Assessed Value received last week.
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McGill: A little talk with Jesus makes it right
Amongst the Bible’s most notable “Divine Appointments,” there is one that stands alone as Jesus takes a Detour to Deliver a woman who found herself – well, all alone. It seems that she had spent her whole life “Lookin’ for love in all the wrong places, lookin’ for love in…
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Jones: Let’s get social (media)
During my first stint with the Bladen Journal from Dec. 1979 until July 1985 it was the place to go to find the news of Bladen County.
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Wagner: The Jews (and America) return the favor
Ezra 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also…
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McGill: Putting Ichabod in his place
Of all of the notable characters of the Bible, there is none so telling as today’s starring man ICHABOD. No, I’m not referencing the Legend of Sleepy Hollow’s infamous, Ichabod Crane. Rather, I’m referring to a baby born to a dead father and a dying mother.
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NCHSAA: Keeping education first in high school sports
High school sports are experiencing record participation. It is also experiencing unprecedented pressure.
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Hooks: Why education still deserves an A+
If you have ever walked past a classroom lately, you probably have noticed something remarkable: students learning, teachers teaching, and technology behaving itself, at least most of the time. Education, despite decades of jokes about pop quizzes and overdue homework, is quietly staging one of the most impressive comebacks of…
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Jones: Try something new, you might enjoy it
Well, it seems not everyone agrees that there’s plenty to do in Bladen County in spite of it, admittedly, lacking in some areas of entertainment. Here’s some of the reaction from Facebook about last week’s column.
