If you are like most, today you will make some “resolutions” – things you want to change about your life to become a better person. This tradition is not new. Roughly 4,000 years ago, the Babylonians held celebrations in honor of the new year.
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Cooking with Tammy Kelly: Blessings for the New Year
The New Year offers us an opportunity to make a clean start on developing new life habits and even leave some behind us. Be sure to start your new year with an extra boost of good fortune by enjoying a meal sure to promise good blessings. The traditional foods in the South relating to good fortune are beans, greens and pork.
Mike Parker: As we enter the New Year, let’s share one resolution
Thanks to the kindness of my son Michael and his wife Pam, Sandra and I were able to take in the Raleigh performance of the Tran-Siberian Orchestra, TSO for short. This group performed only one show at the PNC and then headed to Greensboro.
Reece Gardner: Let's talk politics
Let's talk politics, first on the State level (Georgia) and then on the national scene. In the Georgia election, which was held yesterday, it is reported that the GOP recruited over 8,000 volunteers to watch the polls in the counting of votes in the two races for the U.S. Senate.
Reece Gardner: Happy New Year!
I am sure that having the Covid-19 to deal with for most of the year 2020, we are all going to see a lot of relief coming in 2021.
Mike Parker: My gym goes through an end of the year transformation
Between the holiday rush, a Myrtle Beach trip, and sickness, Sandra and I had not been to our gym for three weeks. When we returned from Myrtle Beach on Jan. 4, our gym had changed ownership and names. The gym we had known as Build-A-Body had become Good Bodies.
Cooking with Tammy Kelly: Foods to boost your health in the new year
It’s January and the diet plan commercials are already flooding the media, each claiming to be the best. If you want to boost your health instead of a diet plan that will want you to “cheat” or drop after a couple of weeks, try introducing some new health-boosting foods into your regular diet plan. Here are some of the best foods to choose and why!
Sarah Jo Sever: Announcing new changes at Neuse Regional Libraries
Happy New Year from Neuse Regional Libraries! We’re convinced that this is going to be our best year yet and to start things off right we’re rolling out some wonderful changes, starting with a brand new logo and Library website with a special thank you to Lenoir Community College.
Reece Gardner: Thankfulness expressed in music
Well, here we are into a New Year, which I am sure all of us hope and pray will be filled with much joy and fulfillment of dreams and aspirations. I am sure that most of us during this past year have had our "ups and downs," but all of us have so much to be thankful for, and a lot of that thankfulness is expressed in music.