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September 18th

From the publisher: A stay neither 'short' nor 'pleasant'

September 18, 2012

The first letter to the editor I received at The Observer News Enterprise was short and not so sweet.

In response to one of my early O-N-E columns pondering why there’s a pause at a particular place in the pledge of allegiance, a reader wrote in 2002: “I hope you have a pleasant, but short stay in Catawba County.”

A little more than 10 years later, my stay here hasn’t exactly been short.

With 31 losing seasons in 35 years, the expectation level for the Maiden girls basketball program...
The search for the next Newton-Conover girls basketball coach continues. Ike Williams resigned from...
Dale Jarrett is joining the elite in NASCAR’s Hall of Fame. The Catawba County native and three-...

 

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