03/29/2024
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NFL scores from Sunday play:
Minnesota Vikings 26 – New Orleans Saints 20
Seattle Seahawks 17 – Philadelphia Eagles 9

Vikings and Seahawks advance in playoffs. Saints and Eagles season over…

Locally … One more reminder, today is the final day to pay property taxes before penalty added…

Bladen County Commissioners regular bi-monthly meeting tonight – 6:30 p.m.

Tar Heel begins process of naming new Mayor and Elizabethtown City Council begins discussions related to filling the Dicky Glenn position … both vacancies due to recent deaths.

Pray for our nation … and for those in positions of power and for the military ordered to the troubled area, as well as their families…

Always have been and always will be wars and rumors of war.

Remember when there was a Belks store in Elizabethtown? On Broad Street in the 60s. … It was just down the street from Western Auto, McGills Restaurant, and DeVane Jewelers. Corbett’s Men Store, Smith’s Drug Store and across the street from Bennett-Stone Pharmacy, Fowler Simmons, Manns, Bladen Ace Hardware and Bank of North Carolina, NA … as well as Melvin’s Feed and Seed, Hutchinson’s Drug … Collier Gas and IGA. … Just a thought to spur some conversation. … Failed to mention Registers 5 & 10 store and Bank of Elizabethtown … and there were others, all in the 100 block of West Broad Street, Elizabethtown … Survivors and competitors thru it all … Kinlaw Furniture and Leinwands…

May miss a day or two of ‘thoughts’ … more cataract surgery on the agenda for this week … one down and one to go … no issues so far…

“My ancestors didn’t come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.” Will Rogers

“It’s hard to be nostalgic when you can’t remember anything.” Harding’s Happy Homily

“Those who learn nothing from history are condemned to rewrite it.” Mort Sahl

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