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Friday, August 21

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Hunt at Lee County, 7 p.m.

SW Edgecombe at Nash Central, 7 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER

Community Christian at Terra Ceia, 4:30 p.m.

Greenfield at Fayetteville Village...

More rain in the forecast for Friday, Aug. 21, has affected the first week of high school football games with two more area teams opting to move their games.

Sallie B. Howard's home game against Weldon and Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf's Gary W. Farmer Field has been moved to Monday while Wilson Prep's game at Clayton will kick off at 7 p.m. Saturday.

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Our state’s greatest threat likely won’t come from storms, although we all know the damage hurricanes, floods and ice storms can create.

It won’t come from political upheavals or a revolution, although we acknowledge the turmoil that could result. And it’s hard to conceive of a widespread epidemic wiping large numbers of us out, although COVID gave us a scare.

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After Wilson City Council members voted to update the city’s water shortage response plan during the council’s monthly meeting on Thursday night, Aug. 20, City Manager Rodger Lentz told council members that he hopes the city never needs to use the plan again.

“I’m glad we got the rain to fill our reservoirs, and I think we’re getting ready to remove the voluntary restr...

When a powerful industry rakes in billions for doing something that should have a negligible cost, it will say almost anything to keep that river of money flowing. It was true of the auto industry that constantly fought safety upgrades. Ditto for the oil companies that denied the reality of climate change.

And it’s true of the Wall Street giants who make using a credit...