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Gentle Reader, please do not be alarmed at the size of this node or the curious formatting, all will become clear very soon. What started out as a simp...

Ironically, I’ve ended up working at the type of place that, as a child, I feared and loathed to a degree that was matched by few other locations and situations.

Derby 2021! Live Longshots – Super Stock, King Fury, Midnight Bourbon With apologies to Robert Browning: The year’s at the spring And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The snail’s on the thorn; The Derby’s back on May 1— All’s right with the world! All is most certainly not right with the world – but it’s a whole bunch better than where we were a year ago this time. While my family and I have had our challenges this year (anybody wanna talk about the joys of homeschool?), we are most grateful to be healthy, together, and optimistic about what is to come. Many have ...

I may have mentioned, Gentle Reader, that I am not a morning person. My feelings are that the early hours of the day are a plot against humanity, in an attempt to turn us all into either docile cattle, ripe for the slaughter, or alternatively, into perky, happy cheerleader types — the kind of human that at zero five-thirty is so happy and friendly that, before your first coffee of the day you’d joyfully run them over with a giant Tonka truck. Pre-job, my body clock runs closer to a burned-out 1950s Vegas lounge singer. For me, early to bed is 2 a.m. Early to rise is before 11.

James Brent Montgomery HENDERSON — Vance County residents have come together over the last few weeks to express their support of local Highway Patrol Trooper James Brent Montgomery, who is fighting for his life at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill due to COVID-19. His wife, Heather Montgomery, is asking the community to keep her husband in their prayers as he battles COVID-19, and is optimistic that some recent minor improvements with his condition are a positive sign that he will recover from the virus. The trooper is on a heart-lung machine, receiving what’s called extracorporeal membr...