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October 29, 2023 No Responses

Building families’ futures

Sherry Heitmeyer wipes sweat off her sun-kissed forehead. It is just before noon on a late October day, but clear skies have brought the temperatures into the mid-70s. The weather, she says, is perfect for the task at hand. And...

September 17, 2023 No Responses

Scouts’ honor

Bill Moon couldn’t tell you how many evenings he has spent in these woods — the sprawling stomping grounds for countless members of the Boy Scouts of America Tuscarora Council. But when he looks down at the campfire and smiles...

September 17, 2023 No Responses

Hope from the ashes

Teresa Rose is sitting under an umbrella in her front yard when Mark Mason approaches. His job — running electricity from the Roses’ backyard workshop to their swimming pool — was complete. “Ok,” he said. “Now you can go swimming,...

June 30, 2023 No Responses

Under the gun

Taj Polack can see the fear in their eyes — the bikini- and swim trunk-clad teenagers barreling toward his backyard on a humid April evening. Most are barefoot. Some are screaming. They jump over his fence — fleeing the barrage...

June 12, 2023 No Responses

Ray of hope

Ray Thomas’ eyes swell and tears begin to form. Sitting at the head of a long dining room table, he looks down — taking in, albeit briefly, the fact that he is flanked by people he didn’t know a year...

October 6, 2022 No Responses

Once lost. Now, leading the way.

Editor’s Note: The following piece published in our Best of the Boot 2022 magazine as one of our Who Wayne’s Watching features. We felt, as Dr. Patty Pfeiffer was officially inaugurated as Wayne Community College’s president Thursday, that he...

August 21, 2022 No Responses

Loving thy neighbor

An Eastern Wayne High School graduate bumps into a former classmate. It’s been years since they shared a classroom and when their eyes meet, it’s clear they have taken drastically different paths. One is a respected minister — a leader,...

August 11, 2022 No Responses

For the Nolan she knew

Most people only know him as the uniformed man in a photograph shared on social media thousands of times over — from narratives espoused by organizations that pride themselves on honoring fallen law enforcement officers. They likely clicked on an...

September 16, 2021 No Responses

Never, ever forgotten

The amulet Barbara Cleary wears around her neck is more than just a piece of jewelry that once belonged to her late husband. It is the talisman that brought him home to her — years after Maj. Pete Cleary’s plane...

May 1, 2020 No Responses

Facebook group lets community ‘adopt’ members of Class of 2020

Some sent gift certificates. Others mailed handwritten letters and congratulatory cards. There have been cash offerings and homemade desserts. For those who have “adopted” members of the Class of 2020 through a Facebook page created by Goldsboro High Schoo...

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