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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.

From a small town boy to a big league pitcher, Madison Bumgarner has already achieved a lot in...
Tuesday night's American Legion baseball game between Hickory Post 48 at Gastonia Post 23 in Sims...
When you look up and down the list of names on the Hickory Post 48 roster, all of them are familiar...

 

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