Archives: June2005

  • Pantego NC Mud Run

    Fourth of July is just around the corner…
    get ready for a ho’ down. Yup, it’s the Pantego NC Mud Run. Don’t forget the Belhaven Fourth of July parade. 
    On second thought — forget it. Stay home in the air conditioning. Watch the Fourth of July celebrations on PBS. That’s where the real Independence Day goodness [...]

  • Demolition Derby on 2nd St.

     If you’re going to spend the day outdoors when it’s hotter than the surface of the sun — spend it having fun.
    So I did.
    Watched a two- hundred (or more) year old two-story house be demolished by a bulldozer. After watching for a while, I realized the house’s original structure could have been built [...]

  • Beaufort County Animal Control obligations

    Hey, someone needs to tell Beaufort County about the State spay and neuter program. It’s in the State Statutes.
     § 19A‑61.  Spay/Neuter Program established.
    There is established in the Department of Health and Human Services a statewide program to foster the spaying and neutering of dogs and cats for the purpose of reducing the population [...]

  • Washington Summer Festival 2005

    Okay, we admit it. There was a festival here this weekend and people went to it.
    I did not vote 4 Bush.

  • Arlene, you dork.

    I see Janis Owens has not completed her hurricane preparedness kit for the 2005 season. Instead, she blithely heads into the abyss, traipsing over to FSU to watch a peformance of Marlette’s Kudzu. Well, if there’s not some irony in watching Kudzu during a hurricane, I don’t know where irony exists… unless, of course, Chapel [...]