Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:53:04 -0500 From: Amanda Robertson Subject: Support Our Local Businesses… and Our Way of Life When we moved here three years ago, my husband and I quite purposefully decided to support our local businesses as much as possible. We had Valentine’s Dinner at the RoadhouseContinue Reading

Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:02:10 -0500 (EST) From: mphorn22 Subject: It only looks that way. Tom, it sounds like you don’t know how activism works.  There seldom are large numbers who actually get involved in committees, legwork, etc.  The prevailing “hue and cry” I’ve heard from churches, political organizations,Continue Reading

Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 10:57:25 -0500 (EST) From: Jane Forbes Subject: re: God Save the Land Section D in the News and Observer, December 29, has a wonderful article about the relationship between use of the land, caring for the land, and human responsibility for abuse of the land. Continue Reading

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:45:57 -0500 From: John Alderman Subject: CPI’s Business Model Chatham Park Investors, LLC’s business model is extremely dangerous (emphasis added) for all farmers, ranchers, and woodland owners in North Carolina.  Their model:  Replace traditional land uses by leapfrogging extremely large, high density developments into ruralContinue Reading