“Gonna treat you great!”

The cast of Center Stage Theatre’s upcoming production of “Oklahoma!” converged on the Arts Council of Wayne County Friday evening to sell tickets to the show and give residents a taste of what’s to come next month. The play will…

Pink. Blue. Courage.

They ran for love. They ran for hope. They ran to celebrate courage. They ran to fight a foe that hits so many families and changes so many lives. Saturday’s Cures for the Colors Color 5K at Wayne Community College…

GHS principal to white teachers: Check your privilege

Goldsboro High School principal Christopher D. Horne gave more than a dozen teachers — several of them white — an assignment March 18 as part of what he characterized as a mandatory professional development session: Read Peggy McIntosh’s “White Privilege:…

The queen’s speech

CHAPEL HILL — It was supposed to be a graceful goodbye — a scripted show of gratitude for a fairytale year as the face of the American beauty pageant universe. But Wendy Dascomb knew that her time in the spotlight…

Worth the brain freeze

I know it sounds counterintuitive — an ice cream recommendation in February. A coffee joint? Makes sense. Soul food or a bowl of chili? Sure. But not ice cream. At least not until your heated seats make way for the…

She’s everywhere … always

MOREHEAD CITY — Kathleen Templeton is everywhere. She reveals herself in her daughter’s smile — in the beautiful, caring young woman she’s growing into. She comes through her son’s car speakers — riding the lyrics of songs he hasn’t been…

Their story

The Goldsboro High School Show Stoppers welcomed the community to GHS in mid-February and put on a moving Black History Month performance to honor the plight of African-Americans throughout our nation’s history.

No time for manners

My wife is not amused. And posting this is going to keep our latest marital spat going. Yes. A bowl of soup can be so good that you’ll shed civility and reject the many table manners that hve been burned…

A stroke of comfort

CHARLOTTE — In a simple stroke, it’s gone. The uncertainty. The drama. It all just goes away. There is no easel. No fancy paints or brushes. She doesn’t even use a chair. Instead, Amanda Miller makes her way to the…

His high note

CHAPEL HILL — More than sixty years ago, on a small piece of land nestled along the outskirts of rural Franklin, a little boy picked cotton until his fingers bled. “Those was rough days,” Dave Bullock said, looking down at…