Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:59:42 -0400 From: John R Dykers Subject: Fracking Dear Jeff, Please take time to write a shorter letter. Your important stuff gets lost in redundancy and bluster. The commercial chemical concoctions used in fracking are highly competetive and mostly patented and those patents require preciseContinue Reading

Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:00:18 -0400 From: Karen Tiede Subject: Bombing practice In  Wayne County, home of the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson AFB,  they call that noise “the sound of freedom.†Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:35:43 -0400 From: pjohnson14 Subject: artillery bombing practice at Fort BraggContinue Reading

Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:38:32 -0400 From: Tom Glendinning” Subject: Rumbling If the sounds originated from bombing exercises, the planes were from Pope Army Airfield at Fort Bragg or Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro. I remember seeing a sign at the Seymour Johnson entrance years ago.  ItContinue Reading

Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:06:25 -0400 From: Kathy Zinn Subject: rumblings – solved! Thanks to the knowledgeable folks who identified the recent rumblings as coming from Ft. Bragg.  .  It is of great comfort to to me and other newcomers to know we are not in danger of “TheContinue Reading

Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:00:55 -0400 From: David Preo Subject: Rumbling noises It is this http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/Marines-train-on-Fort-Braggs-artillery-range-130962338.htmlContinue Reading

Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:59:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Kerry Straughn Subject: Chicken Little If people would do 5 minutes of reasearch, or just watch the local evening news occaisionally, there would be a lot less claims of the sky falling. http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/10213427/ FORT BRAGG, N.C. The Marine Corps is usingContinue Reading

Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:06:51 -0400 From: Steve Smith Subject: Geographic discrimination on the Chatlist Why so little coverage of Crutchfield Crossroads in the Chatlist? Seems it’s all “Carbonton this” and “Brickhaven that …” Do Crossroaders need to start giving away diamond rings or something? Steve SmithContinue Reading

Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:47:49 -0400 From: Melissa Delbridge Subject: Saving Downtown Pittsboro I’ve lived in Pittsboro for less than a year and don’t pretend to understand all of the problems that are resulting in complaints about and closings of local downtown businesses. We’ve established that some people haveContinue Reading

Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:01:39 -0400 From: Tarus Balog Subject: Speaking of Red Stars On a recent drive through some back roads in north Chatham, up near the Alamance border, I saw a number of barns and outbuildings that were decorated with large, five pointed stars. I remember seeingContinue Reading

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:26:54 +0000 From: Virginia Mary Jacks Subject: Twas the morning… Twas the morning still early, when I left the house All the critters was fed up, perhaps even the mouse. The buckets were hung in the barn with care, In hopes at evening chores theyContinue Reading