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The Vidant Health Board of Directors approved the fiscal year 2018 quality, experience and operational plans today, as well as the budget that will support this work
Published: Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017 @ 2:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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My summer has officially concluded. I went back to work on Thursday. The children return next week.
Published: Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017 @ 10:27 am
By: Michele Rhem
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What a difference a year makes. Last summer, Mum wrote a column about a lake adventure with a bunch of guys from Dad's ROMEO group (Retired Old Men Eating Out) plus a few wives.
Published: Monday, August 21st, 2017 @ 9:36 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Big Oil Has Lost Some Of It's Clout But It Will Be Back
Published: Sunday, August 20th, 2017 @ 1:55 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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My first grandchild had his 2nd birthday recently and his parents gave him a ukulele. My son asked me to tune it for him. I told him he was too young to appreciate the tuning but it was better just to let him get used to making sounds. The music might come later.
Published: Saturday, August 19th, 2017 @ 3:26 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I am beginning to "sound like a broken record" . . . but, it is raining at the rabbit patch.
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2017 @ 4:03 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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For days, rain has fallen on the rabbit patch. The sun managed to bring a golden glow to the early service, and that was lovely.
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2017 @ 12:24 am
By: Michele Rhem
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It is now the last week of my summer break, For more than a decade, I have spent the last week of summer, putting the rabbit patch in good order.
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 @ 11:29 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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The sky is brightening as I write this. The "early service" was especially quiet this morning. A mockingbird sang a solo.
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 @ 5:30 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is encouraging people who plan to view Monday's solar eclipse to use proper eye protection and take steps to reduce the risk of heat-related illness
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 @ 4:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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My husband and I have similar interests in many areas, but in others, our preferences diverge. Take music.
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 @ 5:44 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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If we could only erase the year 1277 from history, they all would be loving each other to pieces instead of blowing each other to pieces.
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 @ 4:58 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is joining with the N.C. Community Health Center Association, citizens and partners across the state to observe National Health Center Week, Aug. 13-19
Published: Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 @ 1:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is joining citizens and partner organizations across the United States to celebrate August as National Breastfeeding Month
Published: Thursday, August 10th, 2017 @ 2:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Child welfare service offices in five North Carolina counties started using technology this week in a pilot project that will contribute to improving the safety, permanency and well-being of children and families
Published: Thursday, August 10th, 2017 @ 12:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Is it hard to find people silly enough to waste their time doing silly things?
Published: Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 @ 10:42 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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We don't need an excuse to visit the mountains, especially when the summer heat arrives in Hotlanta, but the excuse for this trip was a book signing in Highlands.
Published: Tuesday, August 8th, 2017 @ 3:09 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Are we really required to read Required Reading. If so, is that constitutional?
Published: Tuesday, August 8th, 2017 @ 11:19 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today released a detailed proposed design for transforming the state Medicaid and NC Health Choice programs to managed care, as directed by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2015. DHHS is accepting comments on this proposal through Sept
Published: Tuesday, August 8th, 2017 @ 11:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I am still biding time in Elizabeth City, the original "Rabbit Patch", so named because I am certain, there are more rabbits than people, here.
Published: Sunday, August 6th, 2017 @ 6:07 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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No matter how hard they try they absolutely cannot hold their heads up!
Published: Sunday, August 6th, 2017 @ 12:56 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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August has been like a breath of fresh air, after Julys' heat and humidity. It is an especially lovely time to stroll by the laughing river or to sit on a rock and watch clouds.
Published: Saturday, August 5th, 2017 @ 3:01 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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While making your family's back-to-school checklist, don't forget to make sure your preteens and teenagers are current on their vaccinations
Published: Friday, August 4th, 2017 @ 5:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I left Thursday morning for Elizabeth City. It was a peaceful drive even with a little rain falling. I thought of all that had been accomplished at the rabbit patch, in the last few weeks.
Published: Friday, August 4th, 2017 @ 1:35 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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“Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the National Debt”. Herbert Hoover
Published: Friday, August 4th, 2017 @ 1:22 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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I was up especially early, today-but I still missed "the morning service". I did not say my prayers, til two am, just a few hours, before I roused. The sweet little housekeeping work on Monday, turned out to be grueling.
Published: Thursday, August 3rd, 2017 @ 4:56 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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As soon as the sun came up, I went out to pick peaches. How sweet it felt, to be outside in pleasant conditions.
Published: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017 @ 8:55 am
By: Michele Rhem
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Vidant Health has earned CEO Cancer Gold Standard™ re-accreditation for maintaining a strong commitment to the health of its team members and satisfying the latest, comprehensive requirements in corporate culture and health benefits
Published: Tuesday, August 1st, 2017 @ 2:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The farmhouse on the rabbit patch is old . . almost a century old. It was built at a time, when real wood was used and put together with nails made of real iron.
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2017 @ 6:24 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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July is not meandering-in fact, it is going along at "break neck" speed. When I was younger, July did not pass "in a twinkling", as it does now.
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2017 @ 12:29 am
By: Michele Rhem
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All the jobs are going over there because of what is happening over here but there is light at the end of the tunnel...Or is there?
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2017 @ 5:44 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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I drove home from Elizabeth City on Sunday morning. The daylight was the kind that did not reveal the time.
Published: Saturday, July 29th, 2017 @ 7:18 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Peter is the Highway Trust Fund and Paul Any and Everything Else.
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2017 @ 7:38 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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East Carolina University (ECU) and Vidant Health today announced the signing of a formal agreement to integrate ECU Physicians, the clinical practice of The Brody School of Medicine at ECU, with Vidant Medical Group, Vidant’s multi-specialty physician group subsidiary into the new entity created las
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2017 @ 12:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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