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VOICES OF DAVIDSON

Time for Apples

  NEWS The Lincoln County Apple Festival is set for Lincolnton on Saturday, October 21. Since 1972 this vibrant community event has entertained locals and visitors with varied activities and reminded us how important apples have been to us. This year’s festival will,...

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The Auman Legacy Covers the State

  NEWS   Editors' Note: D.G. sent a separate email to give News of Davidson readers the following inside scoop (in italics). There is a strong Davidson connection  Hugh Barger and Watts Auman were Davidson classmates.  Both Watts and Hugh Lived on farms located...

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100 Years of History

  NEWS What can we learn from our state’s history? Many of us learned the basics in the eighth grade. But that was a long time ago and it’s hard to remember after so many years. Don’t worry. There is help, in the form of The North Carolina Historical Review, which is...

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Happy Anniversary, Dear Readers!

  NEWS   Happy Anniversary, Dear Readers! Picture this: The date is September 15, 2017. A sunny, late-summer day. The time is 9 a.m. A couple of your neighbors sit under a tent alongside bakers and farmers with tables that brim with the ears of corn, bunches of...

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Reading to the End

  NEWS You are not going to finish reading this column. And it is not necessarily because the column is not all that interesting. There may be other reasons according to Will Blythe. Blythe, a native North Carolinian, is a well-known and highly respected writer and...

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Women Helping Turn Rotary Green

  NEWS Liz Henke is changing the way the East Chapel Hill Rotary Club thinks. Liz is a member of the club’s Green Team. She and the team are featured in the September issue of Rotary Magazine, which is sent to 1.4 million Rotarians across the world. An article titled...

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The Book Banning Parade Has Come to Town

  NEWS “We uphold the principles of intellectual freedom and resist all efforts to censor library resources.” - ALA Code of Ethics   Every now and then, when all the competing priorities that come with small business start to feel overwhelming, I try to remind...

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MecDec Lives

  NEWS ​A book about the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence published in April has raised again the question of whether on May 20, 1775, a group of county residents adopted such a resolution more than a year before the American Declaration. “Who's Your Founding...

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