It is too much trouble to leave the beach and go to a boring ceremony or small parade with old men giving speeches and wearing the VFW insignia. Those ceremonies signify the real meaning of this Holiday.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 9:25 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Original documents should play an important role in American history education. That's the approach from Roger Beckett, executive director of the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. Beckett explained his preference for original historical documents over textbooks during a recent presentation...
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2015 @ 12:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The four donors and recipients involved in a recent kidney exchange at Vidant Medical Center met all together for the first time March 27 on the medical center campus.
Published: Sunday, April 5th, 2015 @ 11:10 pm
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University associate professor Sharon Rogers has spent hours weighing high school football players before and after practice.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 11:27 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Mrs. Opal Lilley Rogerson, age 79, a resident of 2980 Wharton Station Road, Washington, went to be with the Lord, Monday, February 23, 2015.
Published: Monday, February 23rd, 2015 @ 4:06 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Roger Irving Gayton, age 83, a resident of 136 Sunset Drive, Chocowinity, died Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at Vidant Inpatient Hospice.
Published: Thursday, February 5th, 2015 @ 4:18 pm
By: Announcements
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Ever since the awful disclosure of torture to our war prisoners, I have been in deep thought over what we are doing these days with our American sense of ethics.
Published: Wednesday, December 31st, 2014 @ 9:18 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I initially registered as a Democrat because my parents were, but also because you had to be a Democrat if you wanted to vote in North Carolina's primary elections in the 1960s.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:51 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Julia Sutton Rogers, 69, of Plymouth died Thursday, October 29, 2014 at her residence in Plymouth.
Published: Friday, October 31st, 2014 @ 4:37 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Dorothy Fields Rogers, age 87, a resident of 3188 Market Street Ext., Washington died Thursday morning September 4, 2014 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Thursday, September 4th, 2014 @ 11:55 pm
By: Announcements
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Governor Pat McCrory appointed District Attorney-Elect Roger Echols as the new Durham District Attorney following the retirement of Acting District Attorney Leon Stanback.
Published: Wednesday, August 20th, 2014 @ 9:41 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Johnny Roger Pinkham, 59, of 7190 Broad Creek Road in Washington, NC, died Saturday, February 15, 2014 in Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 @ 12:51 pm
By: Announcements
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Robert S. "Budd" Rogers Sr., age 88 died January 11, 2014 at his home with his wife, Lois, of 24 years by his side.
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 @ 1:12 am
By: Announcements
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Community partnerships and projects in several North Carolina counties were celebrated Dec. 4 when East Carolina University's Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy recognized nine new graduates.
Published: Friday, December 20th, 2013 @ 1:14 am
By: ECU News Services
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A recent New York Times piece caught my eye, as it hit upon a topic - alas! - so close to my heart. I'm talking about the enormous glut of people who have earned their PhDs. but cannot find secure, decent-paying academic work.
Published: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 @ 12:43 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The League of Women Voters supports a national universal health care system, and in support of that aim one of its North Carolina units has created a speakers bureau that is offering public presentations with information on the Affordable Care Act and training public librarians to answer...
Published: Thursday, November 7th, 2013 @ 7:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. J.S. Rogerson, age 80, a resident of 2980 Wharton Station Road, Washington died Sunday afternoon, November 3, 2013 at Vidant Medical Center.
Published: Tuesday, November 5th, 2013 @ 1:03 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. James Simon "J.S." Rogerson age 81, a resident of 2980 Wharton Station Road, Washington, died Sunday, November 3, 2013 at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Published: Sunday, November 3rd, 2013 @ 6:55 pm
By: Announcements
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A new Commerce Department program designed to consolidate information collected by the state on job openings and career development is expected to reduce taxpayer spending by roughly $800,000 a year compared with outlays on existing programs. But several lawmakers question whether the state...
Published: Thursday, October 17th, 2013 @ 11:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the first time in more than a decade, FOX News is totally shaking up its prime time lineup, except Bill O'Reilly, whose show will remain at 8:00 pm.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 @ 12:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCGOP HQ and McClatchy spent the day trumpeting the hiring of Todd Poole as the state party's new executive director. I would be willing to bet that a lot of Republicans in Davidson County are not cheering the news.
Published: Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 @ 9:28 am
By: Brant Clifton
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On Sunday, June 30, a group of 37 organizations representing the higher education establishment took out an ad in the New York Times to run a remarkable statement, "Diversity in Higher Education Remains an Essential National Priority."
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2013 @ 11:36 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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On September 13, 2011, Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO), was in Madison to reveal the findings of his organization's study of racial preferences in admissions at the University of Wisconsin.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2013 @ 3:22 pm
By: George Leef
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Duke Energy's CEO Jim Rogers issued a veiled threat to the NC Utilities Commission: if they don't approve the 7.2 percent rate increase his company requested Duke could move their corporate headquarters to another state.
Published: Sunday, November 18th, 2012 @ 3:01 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Will Rogers said, "Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago."
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2012 @ 2:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"I'm the mole," Fox News Channel chairman and CEO Roger Ailes fibbed in a bit of faux news folly during remarks at the 23rd Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus Thursday.
Published: Saturday, April 14th, 2012 @ 4:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Roland Donald Rogers, Sr. 79, of 113 Woodside Ave., Williamston, died Saturday, September 17, 2011, at his home.
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 @ 3:47 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Roger Crockett Shupe, 58, a resident of Belvoir, N.C., died Tuesday, May 10, 2011.
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2011 @ 11:19 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Roger W. Lane, age 68, a resident of Sterling Drive, Plymouth, died Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at Beaufort County Medical Center. Arrangements will be announced at a later date.
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2011 @ 2:28 pm
By: Announcements
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