So Many Choices

Once life was simple. Coke or Pepsi. OK, maybe 7-Up. Now I can’t keep count of the variations. Sweetened, diet, caffeine-free, extra caffeine. There’s a Diet Coke Black Cherry Vanilla. Yucch. How is one to choose? And then when you do make a choice and find one you like, bam, it disappears from the shelves, [...]

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Pilot to navigator . . .

Last weekend my wife Evie and i fought the traffic to visit my father at Hilton Head Island. The most direct route takes you down I-77 through Charlotte. What a mess. There’s always a backup, generally around Lake Norman, and especially on a summer Friday afternoon. Later on in the trip, way down in South [...]

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Good Eats

After spending close to four decades in the southern part of the county, I’m now getting to know some of the many eateries in the upper half. The Cuban sandwich from Goober’s was outstanding, and the basil wraps at Thailand Café were subtle and tasteful. I’d like some suggestions from you folks on particular things [...]

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Foxx-y lady

Aaron Groen, an aide to U. S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, paid us a courtesy call Thursday afternoon. We had a nice chat and I explained to him why as a matter of policy we don’t turn over a portion of our editorial page to elected officials to write columns. Some small papers do that, but [...]

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Cellphone frustration

I’ve used several services and none seem capable of delivering consistent quality. Either service as a whole goes down because of some equipment failure or calls get dropped because I drove around the corner. The battery wears down because it gets locked onto an analog roam. I need a cellphone, but I’m starting to hate [...]

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Sales tax might not be fair, but what’s the alternative?

So come November we’ll have the chance to vote on increasing the sales tax by a quarter of a percent. That’s an extra 25 cents on a $100 purchase, Not much, is it? But it all adds up, about $1.9 million annually, most of which the county would apply toward school construction.
Some argue that the [...]

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So close, yet so far

Dang, I was all ready to sit down Sunday evening and watch the East Surry girls fight for the softball junior World Series title. Was ready to call Dish Network and have them upgrade my service so I could get ESPNU and see the game live.
Then the got upset Friday afternoon by a California team.
But [...]

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Here we are; let’s get blogging

We’re new at this. Maybe you aren’t, so please bear with us. What we’re looking for in this blog is your opinions, feelings and information about the goings-on in our community. We’ll explore subjects such as the Mount Airy Visitors Center issue. Or the prospects of merging the Mount Airy City Schools with the Surry [...]

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Our new (as in better) look

We hope you noticed a big change in your copy of The Messenger on Thursday. We switched printers. Our original printer, the High Point Enterprise, had problems giving us the consistently high quality we want and our readers deserve, so we’ve switched to Stone Printing, another company in High Point.
Now the colors seem to jump [...]

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