Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:28:36 -0500 From: “N.A. Booko” Subject: So I’m starting to write this book . . . So I’m thinking of writing this book about a little county in North Carolina. A cute little county- wanting to grow and not to grow. Some of us haveContinue Reading
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:08:03 -0500 From: “N.A. Booko” <nabooko@mindspring.com> Subject: Prehistoric find in Foodlion Parking Lot . . . Remember Otizi the 5,000 year old man frozen in the Italian Alps? Recall those dinosaur eggs? Butterflies embedded in Amber? No, it not anything quite that old, but yet,Continue Reading
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:36:54 -0500 From: “John Dykers M.D.” Subject: Pittsboro PTA Thrift Store Trashing a damaged item priced at $3 instead of taking an offer of $2 is prima facie absurd. This reminds me of Siler Crossing losing Food Lion as an anchor store by demanding aContinue Reading
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:31:06 -0500 From: anne stone Subject: Pittsboro PTA I, too, am astounded. I, too, have talked with the one ‘in the back’, two years ago. I do my best to not ever go there. It’s dirty, it is filled to the brim, there are itemsContinue Reading
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:58:36 -0500 From: Bridget Wann Subject: Pittsboro PTA I love shopping at he PTA shops, however, I stray from Pittsboro for all the reasons you listed. Pittsboro has much more inventory than any of the other two (Cole Park and Siler City), but I directlyContinue Reading
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:41:36 -0500 From: Carol Hay Subject: Broken merchandise Many retail outlets have a policy against reducing the price of damaged goods. The reasoning is that doing so would encourage some people to damage something intentionally to get a reduced price. My experience in this situationContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 16:35:32 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: <algums63079@mypacks.net> Subject: Pittsboro P.T.A.’s Greed and Peculiar ‘rules’- It is a pretty well known fact that all Chatham P.T.A. Thrift shops are not created equal. Not by a long shot. The Siler City P.T.A. is by far the friendliest and cheapest.Continue Reading
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:53:56 -0500 From: “N.A. Booko” Subject: Blue Ribbon . . . Not that type- Not the type you win a a county fair or the dog show. Oh, I got several of that those- For porcelain dolls, for paintings, for pottery- Even got a fewContinue Reading
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:03:27 -0500 From: “N.A. Booko” Subject: My day . . . Woke up this morning same as many others lately- already feeling a bit gloomy, forlorn. Maybe a little more sleep would do the trick? Nope, that never seems to work. Always sleep too longContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:20:45 -0500 From: “N.A. Booko” Subject: I got my thrill . . . On Blueberry hill . . . or to be more specific, in Bailey N.C. – Blueberry Country. It must have been the late 1970s- I hadn’t been in Chatham County that long.Continue Reading
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 16:27:15 -0500 From: “N.A. Booko” Subject: Jerry’s last name It was the 1980s. I knew Jerry, Edma. Virginia, Nancy and her husband Norm. We were all friends and interested in antiques and all ‘did’ the flea markets. Buying and selling to one another and otherContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:47:32 -0400 From: mphorn22 aol.com Subject: Brad and Taylor Kish Hurray, Brad! What a wonderful retort to Taylor Kish’s usual manner. Thank you for your succinct and erudite response. I find it interesting that Kish posts usually around election times, be they November’s or in primaries. Continue Reading
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 07:58:28 -0400 From: Bruce Hively Subject: re: Whopping it up . . .? “If that’s not whopping it up, I stand corrected” Ah, N.A. Booko, could that be meant to say “whooping it up”? with you, one can never be absolutely sure… regardless, either verbiageContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:57:17 -0400 From: Gretchen Niver Subject: Food safety scores I worked as a food prep person in the Marketplace kitchen for 5 years, and can personally attest to the fact that the health dept. scores often have nothing to do with actual food safety. I’veContinue Reading
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:02:41 -0400 From: mphorn22@aol.com Subject: apples and cedars – and Tick Warrior From September of 1995 until 2013, the crab apple tree in my front yard and the one by a neighbor’s house were abundant with little apples every summer. People, who went for earlyContinue Reading
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