It is entirely appropriate to take a moment or two out of March Madness to appreciate a frenzy of activity of a different kind. Just a short drive out Jones Ferry, Old Greensboro, N.C. 54 or Mount Carmel, there are people hard at work nurturing seedlings, weeding through coldframes, getting crops in the field and…
Category: Opinion
Not My Grandfather’s Newspaper
By Robert Dickson Staff Writer This is the column where I’m supposed to tell you that this isn’t my grandfather’s newspaper. He’s the gentleman you see in the photo accompanying this piece. He and my grandmother started a paper in Raeford, bought another one and merged them into The News-Journal in 1928. The more I…