Atlanta JournalConstitution to stop printing, transition to all-digital news
The Atlanta JournalConstitution will stop printing at the end of 2025. The decision will make Atlanta the largest U.S. metro area without a printed major newspaper.
Publisher Andrew Morse says in a Thursday announcement that the company will bolster its news delivery in digital, audio and video formats. Morse says more people consume news in digital platforms than print, and this trend is growing. The newspaper is owned by the Cox family and has a rich history dating back to 1868.
Average rate on 30-year mortgage slips to 10-month low
The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage slipped this week to its lowest level in 10 months but remains close to where it’s been in recent weeks. The long-term rate eased to 6.56% from 6.58% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.35%.
U.S. applications for jobless bene ts fell last week as layo s remain low
Fewer Americans sought unemployment bene ts last week as employers appear to be holding onto their workers even as the economy has slowed. Applications for unemployment bene ts for the week ending Aug. 23 dropped 5,000 to 229,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Job gains have averaged just 35,000 a month in the three months ending in July, barely one-quarter what they were a year ago.
U.S. economy grows 3.3% in second quarter, government says, in second estimate of April-June growth
The U.S. economy rebounded this spring from a rst-quarter downturn caused by fallout from President Donald Trump’s trade wars. In an upgrade from its rst estimate, the Commerce Department said Thursday that U.S. gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — expanded at a 3.3% annual pace from April through June after shrinking 0.5% in the rst three months of 2025. The department had initially estimated second-quarter growth at 3%.
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The Panthers have sent veteran wide receiver Adam Thielen (19) back to Minnesota,
fth-round pick and 2027 fourth-round pick while shipping the Vikings a 2027 fth and a
2026 seventh-rounder. Thielen, a Minnesota native, has the third-most catches in Vikings history but left the franchise to sign in Carolina, where he spent two years, including a 100-catch season in 2023.
Stanly EDC board receives information on career plans with local school system
Mandy Melton, head of career education for Stanly Scounty Schools, presented information to the board on the school system’s programs
By Charles Curcio Stanly News Journal
THE STANLY COUNTY Economic Development Commission board met Monday in the recently completed Trades
Building of Stanly Community College to discuss various items.
Mandy Melton, head of career and technical education (CTE) for Stanly County Schools, gave a presentation to board members about the various initiatives the school system undertakes each academic year.
She said the school system o ered 67 CTE classes, noting 1,518 high school students (68.8% of the total number of students) were enrolled in at least one class.
The school’s CTE program also extends to middle schools where Melton said 871 students (45.8%) in grades 6-8 take partin a CTE exploratory class. During the last academic year, Melton added, students earned 4,497 industry-recognized credentials (72.9% of the credential potential for the year). The internship program had 46 students, and seven students were in a preapprentice ship program.
New dual-themed event venue opens in Oakboro
With the smell of co ee in the air, the Roasted Edge brings a small event space to the town
By Charles Curcio Stanly News Journal
THE BUSINESS of hosting events in Stanly has been one which has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years.
From big places in the country to host weddings and festivals to wineries and more, Stanly has some wide open spaces for people to celebrate the milestones of life.
A new event venue in downtown Oakboro looks to add its name to the growing list
Melton highlighted several classes in particular, including a natural resources class at South Stanly, which falls under the agricultural department, and a re ghting class at Albemarle. Other events throughout the year highlight CTE education in the SCS system, including the Be Pro Be Proud bus, an outreach of the North Carolina Home Builders Association. Students get the chanc to drive
of sites with two cozy spaces with completely di erent vibes.
The Roasted Edge, at 117 North Main St., is a two-level event venue that has two completely di erent themes on its oors.
Alexandria Clodfelter and her husband, Chance, own the building and had bounced around several ideas for a good use for it.
The 3,500-square-foot facility the couple owns had been sitting basically unused when the COVID pandemic hit.
The Clodfelters make and grind co ee, Rel Co ee, in the building, and it can be
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Brewing and Cabarrus Brewing Company.
Early bird tickets are on sale for a limited time at $25 for general admission lawn seating and $63 for VIP access; prices will rise to $36 and $73 at the conclusion of the discounted sale.
Five artists are scheduled to perform
By Jesse Deal Stanly News Journal
ALBEMARLE — Uwharrie Vineyards and Winery is set to host the second-annual Uwharrie Music Fest as the allday concert event makes its return to Albemarle.
As a sequel to last year’s inaugural country music-themed festival, the upcoming event is scheduled for Sept. 20 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at 28030 Austin Road.
This year’s festival lineup includes ve di erent acts stretched across the day: honky tonk act Love Bug Junkie (11 a.m.), singer-songwriter Shelby Stover (1 p.m.), country group Cheslie and the Chrome Cowboys (3 p.m.), Southern rock group Pressley Laton Band (5 p.m.) and rock ’n’ roll band Tony Logue and 184 (7 p.m.).
“Enjoy a full day of live country music featuring talented local artists, plus food trucks, shopping vendors, out-
door games, axe throwing and more,” Uwharrie Vineyards announced.
“Sip on local wines, craft beers, domestic favorites and non-alcoholic drinks from our outdoor bars. Whether you’re a country music fan or just looking for a fun day out, this event has something for everyone. Get your tickets today and don’t miss this unforgettable day at the vineyard.”
Along with dining options o ered by various food trucks (to be announced), attendees can purchase local wines provided directly by Uwharrie Vineyards, as well as local craft beer from Uwharrie
General admission tickets include lawn access to vendors and the main stage. Attendees can bring their own chairs or blankets for seating as they enjoy food trucks, ax throwing, outdoor games and the selection of outdoor bars. VIP tickets include entry to the indoor wine room and lounge, along with the outdoor patio.
With admission free for children 10 and under, tickets can be purchased at uwharriemusicfest.com.
Sponsorship opportunities through Sunny Day Markets are available by emailing sponsorships@sunnydaymarkets.com, while vendor inquiries can be directed to info@ sunnydaymarkets.com.
“Supporting local vendors and communities is our passion, and nothing matters more to us than helping you shine,” Sunny Day Markets stated in an advertisement.
“This event will feature a curated vendor showcase alongside wine tastings, summer treats, brunch, permanent jewelry and much more.”
Sept.
THE CONVERSATION
COLUMN | VICTOR JOECKS
Trip Ho end, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor
One way to reverse feminism’s war on boys
Over the decades, the left attacked male-only institutions as sexist and discriminatory.
THE LEFT IS WILLING to admit it has made mistakes. It isn’t willing to admit that it has been mistaken.
The bad news keeps coming for the Democratic Party. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the party “faces a voter registration crisis.” Among the 30 states and Washington, D.C., that register voters by party, Democrats dropped 2.1 million registered voters between 2020 and 2024. Republicans added 2.4 million.
Nevada contributed its share to that 4.5 million voter swing. In January 2020, Nevada Democrats had an 83,000-voter lead in registration. Earlier this year, Nevada Republicans brie y obtained a voter registration edge, although Democrats currently have a small lead.
“In Nevada, which releases particularly detailed data, Republicans added nearly twice as many voters under 35 to the rolls as Democrats did last year, state records show,” the Times reported.
These shifting political realities have led to months of introspection among Democratic powerbrokers. One of their conclusions is that liberals have neglected men, who are struggling badly. That is obviously true. Young men are increasingly disconnected, lonely and more likely to engage in a variety of destructive behaviors.
Even if their motives are transparently political, things are so bad that even some
COLUMN | MICHAEL BARONE
liberals now want to help men.
Last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on the “urgent need” to address “the challenges a ecting men and boys.”
“I will be directing my entire administration to begin implementing targeted solutions to uplift our men and boys,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said earlier this year.
The good news is that there’s a proven roadmap to do just that. In the early 1900s, there was a broad concern about the plight of young men amid rapid societal change. Writing recently in The New York Times, Robert Putnam and Richard Reeves describe how the solution wasn’t another governmental program but new civic institutions, like Big Brothers and the Boy Scouts. The Young Men’s Christian Association started in Britain, but it helped many young men in America, too.
“More than a century ago, reformers recognized that the most e ective solution to the boy problem was to build civic institutions and spaces where men could help boys to navigate their way successfully to a mature, pro-social manhood,” they write.
Over the decades, those organizations helped tens of millions of boys. An indispensable part of their success was limiting membership to males. There was a societal understanding that boys and men needed single-sex spaces because boys are di erent from girls.
That understanding is no more. Over
the decades, the left attacked male-only institutions as sexist and discriminatory. They brought political and social pressure on these organizations. And slowly, these boy-oriented organizations opened their doors to females. In 1978, the YMCA banned discrimination based on sex. In contrast, the YWCA openly states it is “one of the oldest and largest women’s organizations in the nation.” There are around twice as many Big Sisters as Big Brothers. Perhaps most notably, in 2017, the Boy Scouts announced it would begin accepting girls. Today, the group is called Scouting America. Meanwhile, the Girl Scouts remain focused on girls.
This was a major error, especially as millions of boys grow up without their dads.
One solution is obvious. Society should encourage the reformation of male-only groups. But doing so would be an explicit rejection of modern feminism, which holds that men and women aren’t innately di erent. Any di erences are imposed by the patriarchy, which must be destroyed. And there’s little that’s more patriarchal than a club that’s exclusively for males.
Even though single-sex groups would help boys, don’t expect Democrats Moore and Newsom to be man enough to push this proven approach.
Victor Joecks is a columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Redistricting in historic perspective
It’s hard to take politics out of politics.
IN ASSESSING the current controversy over Texas Republicans’ proposed redistricting of the state’s U.S. House seats, two historic facts should be considered.
One is that the principle of equal representation by population is well established in American history. In 1787, the Constitutional Convention required the members of the House of Representatives to be apportioned according to population as determined by a census to be conducted within three years and every 10 years thereafter.
This was a remarkable provision — the rst example, so far as I know, in which representation was directly linked to population, and in which it was to be adjusted by what was the rst regularly scheduled national census.
The framers were thinking demographically. They were certainly aware of the 1780s controversy in Britain over “rotten boroughs,” in which a wealthy Indian merchant could elect two members of the House of Commons by buying four pieces of property in Old Sarum. Their numbers included Benjamin Franklin, who in the 1750s accurately predicted that the population of the English-speaking colonies would exceed that of Great Britain in a hundred years.
The second thing to remember is that the founders were aware of partisan redistricting. Another signer of the Declaration and member of the Constitutional Convention was Elbridge Gerry, who, as governor of Massachusetts in 1812, signed a state senate redistricting bill that combined a grotesquely shaped group of towns in Essex County into one district, drawn by cartoonist Elkanah Tisdale with the wings and claws of a salamander. This was the original gerrymander (pronounced by purists like Gerry’s surname, with a hard “g”), which clustered Gerry’s Federalist opponents in a single district.
Congress in 1842 required equal-population districts within a state, but that provision was overturned in the 1929 law, which automatically reapportioned House seats among the states by applying an arithmetic formula to the census results. The predictable result was gerrymanders within the states, topped o by plans jamming the disfavored party’s voters in bloated districts signed by Nelson Rockefeller (R-N.Y.) and Pat Brown (D-Calif.) in the nation’s two most populous states in the 1960 cycle. The Supreme Court ended this in 1964, requiring one-person-one-vote congressional and state legislative districts. As a close student of every redistricting cycle since the 1960 Census, I have observed how the equal population standard severely limits the political gains for even the most partisan redistricters.
You can only jam so many opposition voters into a limited number of districts. And suppose you create too many 53% districts for your own side. In that case, you risk losing the whole bunch when opinion generally or within speci c voting segments shifts 5% the other way, which tends to happen at least once every 10-year interval between censuses.
You should not believe that computers or arti cial intelligence have made gerrymandering more sophisticated. In the 1970s and ’80s, I watched California Democrat Phillip Burton redistrict his state and command
legislators in other states to do theirs. He operated with pencil, paper, pocket calculator and, as he said, “my brain.”
This is a useful background for appraising the uproar over Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s plans to redraw the state’s district lines this summer, which is much louder than when New York Democrats tried something similar last year. The Texas Republicans’ stated purpose is to increase their majority of their state’s House delegation from 25-13 to 30-8, a signi cant gain considering that Republicans control the current House (with vacancies lled) by just 220-215.
But there was a stench of hypocrisy in the air when Texas Democratic legislators ed to Illinois, where Democrat JB Pritzker, in 2021, signed a redistricting plan that gave his party a 14-3 edge. The district shapes, bacon strips emanating from Chicago wards into the prairies and fractal spirals connecting Democratic Downstate nodes, are far more grotesque than any of the Texas Republicans’ seats.
Similar protests and promises of retaliation came from Democrats Kathy Hochul of New York, whose delegation is 19-7 Democratic (and would be more so if a state court had not rejected an even more partisan plan), and Gavin Newsom of California, whose districts (drawn by a supposedly nonpartisan but obviously liberal-leaning independent commission) are currently 43-9 Democratic.
In two of those states, the 2024 popular vote percentage for Republican House candidates was higher than the 2024 popular vote percentage for Democratic House candidates in Texas. It’s unclear how Democrats would create even safer seats in Illinois or New York. And Newsom has to convince voters to abolish the state’s current commission — not a sure thing, polls suggest — to counter Texas in this electoral cycle.
Various high-minded folks have been calling for redistricting reform. But it’s hard to take politics out of politics. Supposedly independent state commissions are either pro-Democratic (California) or swing unpredictably from Democratic to Republican (New Jersey, Arizona).
Critics complain about grotesquely shaped districts, but over the years, most of those have resulted from interpretations of the Voting Rights Act requiring maximizing the number of
The North Carolina state House reviews copies of a map proposal for new state House districts during a committee hearing at the Legislative O ce Building in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023.
black- or, less often, Hispanic-majority districts.
Those interpretations resulted from fears, justi ed when the act was rst passed in 1965, that whites would vote near-unanimously against blacks, though as long ago as 1972, a white-majority Atlanta district elected civil rights leader Andrew Young.
Today, with nearly half the black members of Congress elected in non-black-majority districts and in a nation that has elected and reelected a black president, and with growing numbers of blacks voting Republican, that jurisprudence is on the brink of obsolescence. The Supreme Court has announced it will rehear arguments in a Voting Rights Act case next fall.
So what should be done about gerrymandering? Nothing beyond strictly enforcing the equal population rule, which limits but cannot eliminate partisan district-drawing. As for grotesque shapes, if the Supreme Court takes Justice Potter Stewart’s view of obscenity (“I know it when I see it”), that would unleash a tide of partisan litigation that the court wishes to avoid.
As for grotesque shapes, there are multiple formulas for assessing districts’ compactness, but there’s no principled basis for a court to choose one over another. Congress could choose, as it did in 1929, between equally valid formulas translating Census population results into integer numbers of House seats. But it doesn’t seem eager to address an issue that might put in play proposals to increase its seats from the not-constitutionally-required 435.
There’s a case where gerrymandering doesn’t make much di erence. The 10 largest states elect a majority of House members and are currently the only venues where partisan redistricting can switch more than one or two seats. One hundred and ten Republicans and 125 Democrats currently represent them. The Texas change would switch that to 115-120. That would be 49% of those states’ seats, the same as the 49% of their popular votes won by Donald Trump there in 2024.
Maybe the framers got it right when they opted for the equal population principle as the key to fair representation.
Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime co author of “The Almanac of American Politics.”
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April 17, 1936 ~ January 14, 2023
Barbara Jean Taylor Drye, 86, of Oakboro, passed away Saturday, January 14, 2023 at her home.
Barbara was born April 17, 1936 in North Carolina to the late Robert Lee Taylor and the late Eva Belle Watts Taylor.
She was also preceded in death by husband of 61 years, Keith Furr Drye, and brothers, Robert Lee Taylor, Jr. and George Kenneth Taylor. Survivors include children, Debbie (Mike) Williams of Albemarle, Teresa (Tom) Curry of Oakboro, Douglas (Tammy) Drye of Oakboro; grandchildren, Melissa (Don) Parrish of Albemarle, Samantha (Destiny) Smith of Oakboro, Bradley Smith of Oakboro, Jonathan Stover of Peachland, and Jessie Stover of Lylesville; sisterin-law, Beatrice Goodman; many nieces and nephews; and her beloved cats, Bo and Gar eld.
January 24, 1939 ~ January 15,
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Dwight Britten Farmer Sr., 83, of Norwood died Sunday morning, January 15, 2023 at Forrest Oakes. Dwight was born January 24, 1939 in Stanly County to the late Walter Virgil and Martha Adkins Farmer. He was a 1957 graduate of Norwood High School and was a United States Army Veteran. He was a member of Cedar Grove United Methodist Church where he had served as church treasurer and choir member. He began his career with the Stanly County Sheri ’s Department moving to the Norwood Police Department and retiring as Chief of Police with the Town of Norwood after many years of service.
Angela Mortimer Barrett, former Wimbledon champ, dead at 93
Mortimer Barrett won three Grand Slam titles despite partial deafness
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Dwight was an avid gardener, bird watcher and Carolina fan.
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IN MEMORY
RANDI KARLIN WALKER
NOV. 4, 1965 – AUG. 14, 2025
Randi Karlin Walker, 59, of Albemarle, passed away in his sleep on August 14, 2025, after doing what he was so often remembered for, helping a friend.
James Roseboro
June 23, 1967 ~ January 10, 2023
James Arthur Roseboro, 55, of Albemarle, passed away Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at Anson Health and Rehab.
Randi’s life was de ned by determination, humor and heart. He was born in Centralia, Washington, and adopted shortly after by his loving parents, Ollie and Ann. From there, life carried him all over, from his rst home with them in Alaska, to Japan, and eventually to Albemarle, with many more stops along the way during his years of service in the U.S. Air Force as an aircraft mechanic. His time in the military fueled his love of travel and his deep appreciation for camaraderie and lasting friendship.
Mr. Roseboro was born on June 23, 1967 to the late Robert and Delena Shipp Roseboro. He graduated from South Stanly High School and was employed by Triangle Brick. He enjoyed watching football and basketball, especially the Carolina TarHeels and Miami.
REBA JEAN STARNES BROCK
JULY 22, 1937 – AUG. 23, 2025
Reba Jean Starnes Brock, age 88, formerly of Monroe, passed away peacefully on August 23, 2025. Born on July 22, 1937, in Union County, she was the beloved daughter of the late Floyd Franklin Starnes and Emily Deree Billue Starnes.
John B. Kluttz
March 23, 1935 - January 9, 2023
Reba dedicated her career as a manager with Southern Bell, demonstrating professionalism and kindness in all she did. She was also a devoted member of Twin Harbor Ministries, where her faith and service left a meaningful mark on the community. She was also a member of Marshville Chapter 163, Order of the Eastern Star.
Doris Jones
Coleman
October 11, 1944 - January 10, 2023
After the Air Force, Randi returned to his lifelong passion: working with cars. For decades, he owned and operated The Jalopy Shop, a local automotive repair shop where he became the trusted hometown mechanic for countless neighbors and friends. Known for his resilience and gift for solving problems, he brought both determination and creativity to every engine he touched. When he wasn’t under the hood, he often hunted down parts for his next muscle car restoration project, especially his prized Hemi Cuda.
In addition to his parents he is preceded in death by his brothers and sisters: Barbara Lee Roseboro, Dorothy Brown, Verna Roseboro, Henrietta Ingram, and Harold Roseboro.
John grew up in the Millingport community where he drove a school bus and worked at the local gas station during his High School years. He graduated from Millingport High in 1954 and entered into service with the US Airforce immediately afterward. Upon return from the service, he and his high school sweetheart Julie were married in 1956. He graduated from Nashville Auto Diesel College later in 1959 and began his career as a diesel mechanic at Mitchell Distributing Company, moving his growing family to Charlotte where they lived until their retirement.
Her family remembers her as a loving, caring and determined soul—always ensuring her family was taken care of, with a wonderful sense of humor, an unwavering faith in Jesus and steadfast love for her church. Her generous spirit and quiet strength were a blessing to all who knew her.
Doris Elaine Jones Coleman, 78, went home into God’s presence on January 10 after a sudden illness and a valiant week-long ght in ICU.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lloyd Brock (2017), and her stepson, Chris Brock.
LONDON — Angela Mortimer Barrett, who overcame partial deafness and an intestinal infection to win three Grand Slam singles titles including 1961 Wimbledon, died on Monday at age 93.
The All England Club made the announcement.
Barbara was a member of Oakboro Baptist Church for over 60 years. She worked over 30 years at Stanly Knitting Mills. After just two years of retirement, she began managing the Oakboro Senior Center and did that for 18 years until this past week. Barbara was known for her good cooking and always taking care of others. She also loved going on day long shopping trips - she could out walk and out shop people half her age. She kept her mind and body active through gardening, word searches, and various other hobbies.
“We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Angela Mortimer Barrett, Wimbledon’s oldest surviving ladies’ singles champion,” club chair Deborah Jevans said.
A late bloomer to tennis at 14, Mortimer Barrett was ready to play the Grand Slam events by 19 and won her rst major title at the 1955 French Championships, beating Dorothy Knode of the U.S. 2-6, 7-5, 10-8 in the nal. At 8-8 in the last set, she said she knew she was going to win when she heard Knode ask for a brandy.
By then, Mortimer Barrett’s hearing was failing. Being able to hear the ball coming o the strings is a major aid to most.
“I could hear the applause of the crowd but not much else,” Mortimer told the International Tennis Hall of Fame website. “It helped me concentrate, shutting out distractions. When I hear players say they need to hear the ball, I smile. I couldn’t.”
She returned to the French nal in 1956 but lost to Althea Gibson.
Recurring bouts of illness were eventually diagnosed as entomoebic dysentry. She cured it with a three-week starvation diet but lost a lot of
He is survived by his wife Hilda Whitley Farmer; one son D. Britten Farmer Jr. (Mary) of McLeansville, NC; one daughter Sharon Farmer Lowe (David) of Norwood; one sister Geraldine Dennis of Troy; two grandchildren, Dwight Britten “Dee” Farmer III and Whitley Rose Hui Lowe.
helped me concentrate, shutting out distractions. When I hear players say they need to hear the ball, I smile. I couldn’t.”
Angela Mortimer Barrett
He was preceded in death by his son Alex, brothers, Tommy and Jimmy, sisters, Nancy, Cornelia Annabell, Glennie Mae, and Betty. Memorials may be made to Cedar Grove United Methodist Church, Cemetery or Choir Fund c/o Pam Smith 36071 Rocky River Springs Road, Norwood, NC 28128.
weight that made her weak. Mortimer Barrett’s comeback included her only trip to Australia in 1958, when she won her second Grand Slam singles title, beating fellow Brit Lorraine Coghlan 6-3, 6-4 in the nal, and also reached the nals of the doubles and mixed doubles.
Later that year, she got to her rst Wimbledon nal unseeded — only ve women have done so — but lost to Gibson. Against the odds, again, she advanced to the 1961nal. She upset top-seeded Sandra Reynolds of South Africa 11-9, 6-3 in the seminals. In the rst all-Britishnal since 1914, Christine Truman led 6-4, 4-3 but fell and lost momentum. Mortimer Barrett ground out a 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 victory.
Two months later, she reached the semi nals of the U.S. Championships, her best nish at that event. It was the only year she reached No. 1. She also won the 1955 Wimbledon doubles title with Anne Shilcock.
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Mortimer Barrett was inducted into the International Hall of Fame in 1993, followed by her husband John Barrett in 2014. The only other married couple in the Hall is Ste Graf and Andre Agassi.
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Those who knew Randi best saw not just his skill, but his humor, tenderness and love of life. On fall mornings, he could be found in his deer stand, waiting patiently for the perfect buck. On weekends, mornings were reserved for watching cartoons with his daughters when they were young. And at any time, he might be found befriending a new critter, despite the running joke that he was allergic to just about all of them.
He is survived by his sisters: Helen (James) Roseboro Edwards of Albemarle, Mary Roseboro of Washington DC, and Marion Morrison of Albemarle; brothers: Thomas D. Roseboro of Charlotte, Robert Roseboro (Patricia) of Norwood, and Van Horne; a special friend of over 40 years, Michelle McLendon of the home; special nieces: Nybrea Montague, Knya Little, and Laquanza Crump; special nephews: Robert Jr., Desmond Roseboro, and Marcus Lilly; and God daughter, Daphne Johnson; and special friends, Vetrella Johnson and Ben McLendon.
When John purchased his rst Model A Ford at the age of 17, he said that he took the car to the community mechanic when he had a small problem.The mechanic told him that if he was going to keep the car, he needed to learn to work on it. This is when John’s passion for Model A Fords began and how he spent his happiest days with his best friends from around the globe for the rest of his life!
In the end, two miniature doodles became his loyal companions and the light of his life, second only to his beloved daughters, Kristi and Brandi. To them and to many others, he was a steady source of encouragement, teaching that joy mattered just as much as hard work.
Randi’s legacy lives on in every laugh shared, every problem solved and every bond built. He is deeply loved.
The family will receive friends from noon to 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 30, 2025, at Stanly Funeral and Cremation Care in Albemarle. Funeral service, o ciated by Pastor Ron Lo in, will be at 1 p.m. in the Stanly Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Fairview Memorial Park.
In lieu of owers, memorial contributions may be made to the family’s “K9s for Warriors” Fundraiser gofund.me/206f54b8, a cause chosen in Randi’s honor that re ects his love for dogs and the support they bring to veterans like him.
Reba is survived by her stepson, Shane Brock, and his wife, Becky, of Cleveland, NC; grandchildren Christopher Brock, Aaron Brock, Autumn Brock, Sarah Beth Upright, Kaleigh Brock, Zachery Brock and Timothy Brock; and great-grandchildren Alice Brock, Hailynn Upright and Carter Brock.
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Doris was born on October 11, 1944, in the mountains of Marion, NC while her father was away ghting in the US Navy during World War II. Raymond Jones was so proud to return after the war and meet his little girl! Doris grew up in Durham, NC and graduated from Durham High School. She furthered her studies at Watts Hospital School of Nursing in Durham and graduated as a Registered Nurse in 1966.
Doris married Rev. Dr. Ted Coleman in 1966 and had two daughters Amy and Laura. Doris raised Amy and Laura in North Augusta, SC.
The family will receive friends on Thursday, August 28, 2025, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Davis Chapel. A graveside service will follow at 1 p.m. at Lakeland Memorial Park.
In Lieu of Flowers:
Memorial contributions may be made to her beloved church, Twin Harbor Ministries, located at: 8011 Twin Harbor Drive Mount Gilead, NC 27306 Davis Chapel-Stanly Funeral and Cremation Care of Monroe is serving the Brock family.
At age 50, after years as a Detroit Diesel Mechanic he and Julie decided to take the plunge and open a full Model A Restoration Shop. They thrived at their shop in Cornelius, NC until their retirement in 1998 when they moved back to Cabarrus County. John once again set up shop in his back yard garage where he attracted a loyal group of friends who visited almost daily. While on the farm in Gold Hill, John also began a lifelong love with Alis Chalmers tractors after he restored his Dad’s tractor and began amassing his collection of tractors as well.
JAMES LEE WILLIAMS
JAN. 16, 1962 – AUG. 24, 2025
Doris was an incredible neonatal intensive care nurse for most of her career, and this was her passion. The Augusta Chronicle did a feature on her in 1985. She was a clinical nurse manager in Augusta, Georgia at University Hospital NICU and worked there for 20 years. During this time, Doris mentored young nurses and assisted in saving the lives of so many babies. She also worked for Pediatrician Dr. William A. Wilkes in Augusta for several years prior to her NICU career. Doris retired from the mother/baby area at Atrium Stanly in 2007 after over 40 years of nursing.
James Lee Williams, 63, of Oakboro, passed away on Sunday, August 24, 2025.
Born January 16, 1962, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, he was the son of the late Henry Preston Williams and Mitchelene Beatrice Whitley Williams. He was a retired welder with Chicago Tube and Iron.
REBECCA “BECKY” THOMPSON DUNN
Darrick Baldwin
MARCH 2, 1946 – AUG. 22, 2025
January 7, 1973 ~ January 8, 2023
Rebecca “Becky” Thompson Dunn, 79 of Mt. Gilead, died Friday Evening, August 22, 2025, at Trinity Place in Albemarle.
Funeral Services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 30, 2025, at Liberty Hill Baptist Church, Mt. Gilead. Rev. Davie Wensil will o ciate, and burial will follow in Hamer Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends 30 minutes before the church service.
John restored many cars of his own and had the crowning achievement of winning the most prestigious award from MARC, The Henry for a restoration that garnered top points. He was also presented with the Ken Brady Service Awardthe highest award given to members at the national level. This is what John’s Model A Community had to say upon learning of his death: He was an active member of Wesley Chapel Methodist Church where he loved serving as greeter on Sunday mornings. He also belonged to the United Methodist Men.
He is survived by a son, Michael Ray Williams of Oakboro, a brother, Robbie Dale Williams of Locust, a sister, Tanika Snyder of Locust, a goddaughter, Kelly Fraychineaud of Midland, and a godson, Frank Sealy of Oakboro. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Billy Williams.
CLAUDE
EUGENE “GENE” HINSON
OCT. 3, 1942 – AUG. 24, 2025
Doris was a gentle and sweet spirit and loved her Lord. She never met a stranger, and she always left you feeling uplifted after talking with her. She would often claim that she had “adopted” friends into her immediate family, and honestly, she never made a distinction between the two. Positivity radiated from her like sunlight. She was sel ess, funny, smart, and sentimental. During her lifetime she was an active member of First Baptist Church of Durham, First Baptist Church of Augusta, Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Augusta, and Palestine United Methodist Church in Albemarle. She especially loved helping at church with older adults, youth, and children.
Claude Eugene “Gene” Hinson, 82, of Albemarle, passed away Sunday, August 24, 2025, at Atrium Health Cabarrus Hospital in Concord.
Becky was born in Montgomery County on March 2, 1946, to the late Lacy and Ruth Harris Thompson. She was a member of Liberty Hill Baptist Church.
Darrick Vashon Baldwin, age 50, entered eternal rest, Sunday, January 8, 2023, Albemarle, North Carolina. Born January 7, 1973, in Stanly County, North Carolina, Darrick was the son of Eddie James Baldwin Sr. and the late Phyllis Blue Baldwin. Darrick enjoyed life, always kept things lively and enjoyed making others smile. His presence is no longer in our midst, but his memory will forever live in our hearts.
He was educated in the Stanly County public schools and attended Albemarle Senior High School, Albemarle.
Becky worked at Pee Dee Hosiery Mill during her teenage years and retired after thirty years of employment with Burger Shack in Mt. Gilead. She was an excellent cook and loved cooking a big ham and a bowl of potato salad for family gatherings. She took great pride in her home and decorating. She developed Lewy Body Dementia in 2020 when she was admitted to Trinity Place in Albemarle.
He was a great conversationalist and loved meeting people. Darrick never met a stranger and always showed love and compassion for his fellowman. He also loved his dog, Rocky.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Harold “Scott” Dunn, brothers Philip and Brad Thompson, sister Argene McKeithan, and her in-laws, Harold and Mary Sue Dunn.
She is survived by her son, Harold “Todd” Dunn (Sarah), and granddaughter Caitlyn Elizabeth Dunn, all of Southport. Her siblings, Tony (Dempsey) Surratt, Sam Thompson, Marie (Jim) Bowles, Alice (Phillip) Richardson, Jason (Reba) Thompson and Brenda (Larry) Marley.
He is survived by his father, Eddie J. Baldwin Sr.; sisters: Crystal (Eric) Jackson, LaFondra (Stoney) Medley, and Morgan Baldwin; brothers: Eddie Baldwin Jr., Anton Baldwin, and Lamont Baldwin; a host of other relatives and friends. A limb has fallen from our family tree. We will not grieve Darrick’s death; we will celebrate his life. We give thanksgiving for the many shared memories.
John is survived by his wife Julie Ussery Kluttz, for 66 years of the home. He is also survived by a son John David Kluttz (Kim) of Oakboro, NC; two daughters, Sally Simerson of Denver, CO and Betsy Tusa (John) of Lafayette, CO; three grandchildren, Bonnie Kluttz Sammons (Ben) of Rich eld, NC John Alexander McKinnon (Sarah) of Asheville, NC and Seth William McKinnon (Amanda) of Germany; ve great-grandchildren, Charlotte, Meredith, Grant, Victoria and Ronan. John is also preceded in death by his parents, J.S. Kluttz and Mary Wyatt Clayton Kluttz; a large and loving group of brothers and sisters, Jack Methias Kluttz, Annie Lou Kluttz Honeycutt, Jake Nelson Kluttz, Julius Kluttz, Mary Patricia Phillips and a grandson, Kevin Fowler Kluttz.
Gene was born on October 3, 1942, in North Carolina to the late Claude Hinson and the late Aline Morton Hinson.
She was especially talented at sewing from a young age and made gifts for friends, Christmas ornaments, Halloween Costumes, doll clothes, pageant dresses, prom dresses, coats, tote bags, scarves, out ts for Amy and Laura, and Christening gowns for each of her grandchildren.
Doris was preceded in death by her father Arthur Raymond Jones, her mother Mary Ellen Cameron Jones, and her sister Maryanne Jones Brantley.
The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, August 28, 2025, at Hartsell Funeral Home at 522 N. Second St. in Albemarle. The funeral service will be on Friday, August 29, at 2 p.m. at Poplin’s Grove Baptist Church in Albemarle, o ciated by Rev. Delane Burris. Burial will follow at the Poplin’s Grove Baptist Church Cemetery at 220 Poplins Grove Church Road, Albemarle.
Gene leaves behind the love of his life, Jean, whom he has known since she was a teenager.
He was an avid hunter and a best friend for life to all who knew him, and he will be sorely missed. Survivors include signi cant other, Jean Page of Locust, NC; cousins, Gary Morton, Bobby Little, Jamie Morton, Tammy Hartsell and Tara’Rose Drake. Hartsell Funeral Home of Albemarle is serving the Hinson family.
Survivors include her two precious daughters: Amy Cameron Coleman (partner Dr. Edward Neal Chernault) of Albemarle, NC, and Laura Lindahl Coleman Oliverio (husband David) of Cincinnati, Ohio; seven grandchildren: Cameron David Oliverio, Stephanie Jae Dejak, Luca Beatty Oliverio, Coleman John Dejak, Carson Joseph Oliverio, Ryan Nicholas Dejak, and Jadon Richard Oliverio; and numerous in-laws, nieces, nephews, cousins, and loved ones.
DAVE
Former Wimbledon champions Angela Mortimer Barrett, left, of 1961, and Anne Jones, right, of 1969, ank a bust of fellow champion Virginia Wade at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in London in 2004.
simulations of forklifts and other heavy equipment while learning more about the various industries.
Various middle and high school students from SCS toured several local companies, including American Racing Headers, Pre-Form Line Products, Stanly Community College and the NC Farm Bureau Livestock Arena.
Middle schoolers also had programs called Lunch and Learns where speakers like AHS teacher Joanne Hesley, SCC’s Christian Payne and South Stanly High teacher Mark Tucker spoke with students.
When asked by Lynn Clodfelter, district attorney for Stanly and Montgomery counties, if SCS as part of the CTE program teaches nancial literacy, Melton said it was part of the accounting and personalnances the system teaches to seniors.
“It was a few years ago, but the state passed a curriculum that is just what you are talking about,” said Jarrod Dennis, superintendent for Stanly County Schools.
Melton noted that each high school has a career development program coordinator who helps students plan for careers and future internships.
She added SCS high school freshmen do a program each year with the State Employees Credit Union called a reality check. Students will map out the house and car they want in the future and see how much those can cost.
“They realize they have to have a salary of $1.5 million to a ord what they want, and then have to scale it down to something that is manageable,” Melton said about the normal results students discover.
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Albemarle schedules 2025 Community Night Out
The annual community event is set for Oct. 11
By Jesse Deal Stanly News Journal
ALBEMARLE — Present-
ed by the Albemarle Police Department and Safe Kids Stanly County, Albemarle’s annual Community Night Out will return Oct. 11, according to a recent press release from the city.
The gathering, designed to bring together local citizens, community groups, organizations and nonpro t agencies for a free, family-friendly event, will run from 4 to 7 p.m. at YMCA Park on 115 C.B. Crook Drive.
Community Night Out has been an annual xture in Albemarle for more than a decade; last year’s event drew more than 1,000 people.
In keeping with the event’s
The company’s rapid trial-and-error development approach continues
By Christina Larson The Associated Press
SPACEX LAUNCHED the latest test of its mega rocket Starship on Tuesday night and completed the rst deployment of a test payload — eight dummy satellites — into space. After just over an hour coasting through space, Starship splashed down as planned in the Indian Ocean.
Starship blasted o from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch site in south Texas, just after 6:30 p.m. It was the 10th test for the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket, which SpaceX and NASA hope to use to get astronauts back on the moon.
NASA has ordered two Starships to land astronauts on the moon later this decade, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s ultimate goal is Mars.
No crew members were aboard the demo launch.
The test also included the successful return of the craft’s Super Heavy Booster, which splashed down in the Gulf after testing a new landing-burn engine sequence.
The Starship itself continued to orbit the Earth — passing from daylight in Texas through night and back into daytime again — ahead of the planned splashdown. Before the craft hit the waves, its engines red, ip-
tradition, the evening will feature live music, food trucks, a bounce house, face painting, games and prizes, along with shared community resources and safety information. Families will also have the opportunity to meet local rst respond-
ers and emergency personnel in a casual setting.
“Community Night Out is one of APD’s favorite events because it creates a relaxed and friendly atmosphere for residents to meet our o cers and other public safety professionals,” Albe-
ping its position so it entered the water upright with its nose pointed upward, right on target.
SpaceX had a buoy with cameras located in the middle of the ocean, and its on-stream commentators said that if you saw the buoy-cam, you’d know they landed in the right place.
SpaceX uses a rapid development approach for Starship that’s unusual in aerospace — engineers build prototypes quickly, test them until something breaks, then use what they learned to build a better version.
marle Police Chief Ryan Manley said. “The Albemarle Police Department doesn’t just protect the community, we are part of it. The city is stronger when we all work together. Community Night Out is a great opportunity to build bonds with our neighbors.”
Community Night Out is part of the nationwide National Night Out initiative, which encourages positive relationships between law enforcement and the public through neighborhood gatherings. The annual campaign, observed in thousands of communities across the United States, focuses on crime prevention, safety awareness and building trust between residents and the o cers who serve them.
Albemarle’s event puts a local spin on that mission by combining family entertainment with opportunities to connect directly with rst responders. Safe
“Community
Ryan Manley, Albemarle police chief
Kids Stanly County, a longtime partner in the event, will again sponsor this year’s activities.
“Safe Kids Stanly County is excited to partner with the Albemarle Police Department as a sponsor of this year’s Community Night Out,” said Adam Palmer, coordinator for Safe Kids Stanly County. “This event is a wonderful opportunity to bring families together in a fun, safe environment while strengthening community connections and promoting safety for all.”
craft tumbled and eventually broke apart on reentry.
This di ers from traditional spacecraft development, where companies spend years perfecting designs on computers before building anything.
Think of it like a chef perfecting a recipe by making it multiple times and trying new things, rather than planning every ingredient in advance. When a Starship prototype explodes or fails, SpaceX engineers treat it as valuable data, not a setback.
Back-to-back tests in January and March ended in “rapid unscheduled disassembly” or RUD,
just minutes after lifto , raining wreckage into the ocean. The most recent test in May — the ninth — ended when the space-
SpaceX later redesigned the Super Heavy booster with larger and stronger ns for greater stability, and redesigned fuel components on the Starship itself to address the issues.
The company has built an enormous factory at its Texas facility to mass-produce the craft and is hoping to send thousands to Mars over the next decade. The next version of Starship, version 3, could head to Mars as soon as next year on uncrewed test ights.
Stanly News Journal’s Jordan Golson contributed to this report.
men’s lounge on the
purchased online and enjoyed at various co ee shops and restaurants around Locust and Mount Pleasant.
Except for the co ee roaster, which takes up a small amount of room on the rst oor, the family has transformed the rest of the building into two di erent places to host small, intimate events.
Since the couple only roasts co ee on nights and weekends, they decided, with the advice of Oakboro town administrator Georgia Harvey, to revamp the space to host smaller events.
“It didn’t make sense to keep (the property), keep paying all of the overhead and it not be utilized,” Clodfelter said.
“But we also didn’t really want to get rid of an asset. The whole purpose of purchasing property is to hopefully one day be able to hand it down to our kids.”
The couple rst thought of turning the top oor into an Airbnb, but the town’s ordinances for the building would
not permit it, which also led to the venue space being the couple’s decision for the building.
The top oor is painted white with wood oors and is more open for a group of people to host an event.
On the ground oor, the walls are a much darker color, with two separate rooms themed in the style of a 1920s speakeasy.
“It’s dark and moody downstairs. It looks like a leather accent wall,” Clodfelter said.
“We like having the roaster in here. We like the industrial (look).”
Upstairs, she added, “is still white, bright and airy. If someone wants to photograph events and wants to have a little bit of both (types of rooms), they will.”
The two rooms on the downstairs speakeasy oor are themed as a man’s cigar room and a ladies’ lounge room, which she said would be great for photography, social media in uencers and more.
The upstairs area also has a kitchen with everything ex-
cept an oven. Tables, chairs, tablecloths and more can be provided.
Clodfelter said people could have micro weddings, a new trend of weddings with only around 50 people or less, in the space.
The venue is already booked for a 50th birthday party, a bridal show and more.
Clodfelter said the rates for the room are more competitive than some of the larger venues. Whereas some places charge thousands of dollars for their space, the Roasted Edge’s most expensive rate for a full day on the weekend will not be more than $600.
“It’s very a ordable for the county, and we o er hourly, half-days and full days, with weekday and weekend rates,” Clodfelter said, noting tables, chairs and tablecloths are included.
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er men’s soccer lands sixth in USA South preseason poll
The Falcons’ regular season began Friday night
By Jesse Deal Stanly News Journal
MISENHEIMER — The Pfei er men’s soccer team has been picked to nish sixth in the USA South Athletic Conference preseason poll.
The USA South released its annual poll Wednesday, with votes cast by the league’s head coaches. Pfei er landed in sixth place out of eight teams with 17 points.
Defending regular-season champion N.C. Wesleyan, which went 7-0 in conference play last year, was voted the preseason favorite. The Battling Bishops collected 47 total points and ve of the eight rst-place votes.
William Peace, the reigning
The USA South Athletic Conference has released an annual men’s soccer preseason poll for the past 22 years.
USA South Tournament champion, followed in second with 42 points and two rst-place votes. Brevard was slotted third with 37 points, while Meth-
odist took the nal rst-place vote and ranked fourth with 33 points.
Southern Virginia came in fth with 26 points, just
“The team picked rst in the poll’s history has won the conference championship just eight out of 21 years.”
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ahead of Pfei er. Greensboro was seventh with 14 points, and Mary Baldwin rounded out the poll in eighth with seven points.
“The team picked rst in the poll’s history has won the conference championship just eight out of 21 years,” the USA South said in a release. “Conversely, the second place team in the poll has grabbed the league title on six occasions, including last fall. Finally, the team picked
All good things must come to an end
For now, I’ll see you later.
THIS MAY BE the hardest item I’ve ever had to write for a newspaper, but here goes.
As of this past week, I will no longer be a full-time newspaperman.
I have been asked many times over the years how I got to Stanly County, and the answer was two words: Pfei er University. Then Pfei er College, of course.
Pfei er has always been very special to me, and now I am returning to it in a new position: assistant athletic director for sports marketing and broadcasting.
On and o , I’ve been calling games at Pfei er since the 1994-95 academic year. Marcia Vanore, the swimming coach, recruited me to call the women’s basketball games as a sophomore in school.
Last year, I called basketball, baseball, softball and lacrosse games for Pfei er’s online broadcasts, which will be part of my new position.
In looking back to see the time I’ve spent writing for you, my dear, gentle readers, I wanted to see how long I had been doing this.
With the way technology works today, I was able to go online and search for the rst time
my name appeared in the Stanly News & Press. Believe it or not, it was Oct. 7, 1993, while I was a freshman and theater major at Pfei er. I appeared as the bellboy from the infernal region in Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential play “No Exit.” All I remember from that play was I wasn’t allowed to blink onstage, or try not to blink.
I ended up switching majors to journalism and was on The Falcon’s Eye newspaper sta for three years as the sports editor.
The rst byline I could nd for myself in the SNAP was Nov. 27, 1994, after having switched majors. I covered the nals of the Tipo Tournament at North Stanly, a women’s basketball tourney to open the season. North lost in the nals to Central Cabarrus, with Jamie Randall scoring 31 for the Comets and Sandy Allen doing the photography.
I am not sure why I wanted to be Charles P. Curcio in that byline, but I’m guessing I wanted to seem older.
I actually had three stories from the tournament on the B1 page of that section when Tim Craig was the sports editor.
Pfei er’s men’s basketball team was at the
rst in the preseason poll has reached at least the semi nals of the conference tournament every year and played for the championship 14 times.”
The 2025 season marks the ninth year at the helm for Pfei er coach Tony Faticoni, who will try to guide his program to its rst USA South conference championship in seven tries.
Last season, the Falcons nished 4-8-3 overall with a seventh-place USA South record of 1-5-1. Pfei er held a home scrimmage against Belmont Abbey at Lefko-Mills Field on Tuesday; the Falcons then began their regular-season stretch of nonconference play on Friday with a trip to Guilford.
Conference play begins Sept. 27 on the road at N.C. Wesleyan, followed by a matchup at Methodist three days later. Pfei er’s rst conference home game is set for Oct. 8 against William Peace.
The USA South Tournament will include the league’s top six teams. First-round matches are scheduled for Nov. 1, with seminals Nov. 5 and the championship Nov. 8.
bottom of the page covered by Craig as Larry Washington was pictured for the Falcons, winning the opening round of the Pfei er Invitational Tournament versus Wingate. I also had the chance while still going to Pfei er to cover South Stanly’s women’s basketball team when they took on my alma mater, Hayesville, in the regionals. The coach at the time was Greg Speight, now a member of the Stanly County Sports Hall of Fame, the rst of many games and times I worked with him on basketball and later North’s 2017 state championship softball squad.
I did not remember this one, but when Laton Lanes was still open and I was bowling in the league, I had a high individual series (with handicap, of course) on Oct. 19, 1997 of 640. I must have had an extra bowl of Wheaties that morning.
The rst time I found my name in the newspaper as sports editor was on the masthead of the May 23, 1999, edition during my rst tenure, and in my rst column on the sports page of that paper.
NFL head coach Bill Belichick, right, and son Steve Belichick, pictured
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West volleyball bounces back from loss with 2 wins this week
19-4
West’s overall won-loss record in sets this season
The Colts improved to 6-1, sweeping South and beating Central Academy
By Charles Curcio Stanly News Journal
bounced back from its first loss of the season to earn two victories this week.
Monday’s match West Stanly 3, South Stanly 0
were 25 -17, 25-13 and 25-14.
Saylor Edwards led the offense with 16 kills, while Kennedy Austin added eight kills and Scarlet Griffin had five. Griffin posted 28 assists and three service aces for the Colts and Georgia Moffit led West with 15 digs.
Tuesday’s match West Stanly 3, Central Academy 0
By Jesse Deal Stanly News Journal
ALBEMARLE — On every Saturday in September, beginning paddlers and seasoned experts alike have the opportunity for a free guided kayaking experience on Lake Tillery.
The Paddle It! program, part of the Start It, Stanly! wellness events series, is brought to the community by Morrow Mountain State Park, Albemarle Parks and Recreation, Stanly Health Foundation and Atrium Health Stanly.
Sessions are scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 6, 13, 20, and 27.
“Whether you’ve got the ex-
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Paddle It! program returns with guided kayaking events
perience or are an eager beginner, APR is working with Stanly Health Foundation and Atrium Health Stanly to bring to you Paddle It — a guided kayaking experience,” Albemarle Parks and Recreation said in a statement. “Join us for four fantastic Saturdays in September to get out on the water.”
The Paddle It! series o ers both an engaging outdoor experience and a chance to promote physical activity and wellness in Stanly County, combining expert instruction with one of the area’s most scenic parks.
“Get out there and enjoy all our area has to o er,” the Stanly Health Foundation added.
Participants will launch from the boathouse parking lot at Morrow Mountain State Park, located at 49104 Morrow Mountain Road.
This coming week, the Colts will have matches on three straight days. West will host Monroe Tuesday then travel to Southwestern Randolph on Wednesday and Forest Hills on Thursday.
After the Colts’ four-game win streak to start the season ended last Thursday at Carson, West went on the road Monday to take on the Rebel Bulls and won in three straight sets. Scores of the match
The Colts improved to 6-1 overall and 2-0 in Rocky River Conference play with a home sweep of the Cougars. Scores of the match were 25-6, 25-9 and 25-15.
Attendees will have the chance to become familiar with the sport of kayaking using a single-person, sit-on-top kayak, with facilitators providing guidance on entering and exiting the kayak, paddling techniques and safety tips.
All kayaks, paddles and life jackets will be provided; those who wish to bring their own kayak are welcome but should reg-
ister using the speci c “Paddle It! BYO Boat” time slots. Space is limited, so organizers ask that only those committed to attending register at runsignup.com/ race/nc/albemarle/paddleit.
All participants must be able to swim, be at least 16 years old and weigh no more than 300 pounds. Waitlists will be o ered if sessions ll, on a rst-come, rst-served basis.
Morrow Mountain State Park spans roughly 5,881 acres within the Uwharrie Mountains and features kayaking and boating on Lake Tillery, a reservoir formed along the Yadkin–Pee Dee River system. Amenities include a boathouse, boat ramp, picnic areas and trails, making it a popular destination for recreation and wellness activities throughout
Paddle It! instructors gather together near the Morrow Mountain State park kayak launch site.
Jaden Little
North Stanly, football
Jaden Little is a junior running back and linebacker on the North Stanly football team.
The Comets opened the 2025 season with a win, and Little contributed on both sides of the ball. He scored a rushing touchdown just before halftime to tie
North Carolina begins its journey under Belichick with a spotlight
The Tar Heels also have plenty of uncertainty
By Aaron Beard The Associated Press
CHAPEL HILL — Bill Belichick brings a résumé with six Super Bowl titles as an NFL head coach to his rst foray into college coaching at UNC.
His arrival was something of a spectacle, one teeming with pressure for a team that will play under a spotlight tied to Belichick’s mere presence on the sideline.
“For all of us, it’s control what we can control,” Belichick said as the Tar Heels opened preseason camp. “Whoever’s here or isn’t here, that’s out of our control. We have a job to do. We have a lot of work to accomplish.”
Change is afoot, from Belichick’s sta featuring sons Steve and Brian as assistants along with former NFL executive Michael Lombardi as general manager, to 70 new players since the school parted ways with longtime coach Mack Brown last year. It is all part of UNC’s bet on elevating its football program, including signing the 73-year-old Belichick to a ve-year deal — with the rst three years guaranteed at $10 million in base and supplemental salary.
“He’s coached at the highest level,” receiver Jordan Shipp said. “He’s coached the greatest players of all time. So it’s just like, you want to do what
the score. After North fell behind in the second half, he recovered a fumble with just over three minutes remaining in the game. On the ensuing drive, he scored the go-ahead touchdown in the nal minute. Little nished with 67 yards on 10 carries. He also scored a two-point conversion to nish with 14 of the Comets’ 27 points.
he’s telling you to do. ... It’s worked for those people, so why wouldn’t it work for me?”
The rst payo s have come with o - eld attention, such as his debut being a Labor Day game in a college version of “Monday Night Football,” or having a 2026 game in Ireland. Those types of bene ts, along with selling out all season and single-game tickets, were expected.
On the eld? Things are more unclear. The Tar Heels (6-7 last year) are picked to nish eighth in the 17-team Atlantic Coast Conference.
“At the end of the day, we’ve got to go out there and play football,” said defensive back Thaddeus Dixon, a transfer who played under Steve Belichick at Washington. “He can’t make no plays.”
Quarterback focus
South Alabama transfer Gio Lopez was named the starting quarterback. The 6-foot redshirt sophomore threw for 2,559 yards and 18 touchdowns while also running for 463 yards and seven scores last year.
“All I can prove is if we put a W in the column, then I’m ne with that,” Lopez said, “That’s all that matters to me.”
Following Hampton
Omarion Hampton was UNC’s engine last year, running for 1,660 yards and 15 touchdowns to become a second-team
The names I saw on that masthead brought back so many memories. From publisher Lejeune Waggoner to the editorial sta (Jim Lisk, Jenny Darby, Jennifer Moxley, Becca Flack and Jo Anne E rd) to the managers (Beth Goodman in advertising, Bill Turner in production and Rick Curlee in circulation) and all the others with whom I worked long term, you all have a special place in my heart.
By the way, 1999 was so long ago I had a Hotmail email address (this was before MySpace, Facebook and social media. Yeah, I am that old).
I left the SNAP in September 2001 and came back Auguat 2008, and I will always be grateful to the
Associated Press All-American and the 22nd overall pick in the NFL draft. There’s no obvious successor, either.
Fifth-year senior Caleb Hood is back with 471 career yards rushing, while Davion Gause ran for 326 yards last year as a freshman backup to Hampton. The Tar Heels also have a returnee in Charleston French (84 yards last year), Michigan transfer Benjamin Hall (141 career yards) and four freshmen.
Improvement needed
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fense at Washington that allowed 23.8 points and 328.4 yards per game last year.
The schedule
Belichick’s debut comes against TCU on Labor Day, while the ACC opener is a visit from the preseason league favorite in fourth-ranked Clemson (Oct. 4).
UNC defensive coordinator Steve Belichick oversaw a de-
Belichick’s defensive background would, in theory, help reverse long-running defensive problems in Chapel Hill going back to Larry Fedora’snal two coaching seasons. From 2017-24, UNC ranks 96th nationally among Bowl Subdivision teams in scoring defense (29.5) and 102nd in total defense (411.0), according to Sportradar.
editor at the time, Jim Lisk, for giving me the chance to come back and do this job.
If I were to acknowledge all the players, coaches, public o cials, celebrities and down-home regular folks whom I have covered in the paper, this column would ll the whole paper up. I would never want to leave a name out, so I can’t list them here, but for every late night text you answered back, every phone call, every moment after a game you really did not want to talk to anyone, thanks for giving me a moment.
I have covered local news and sports for a newspaper in Stanly for 19 years, four months and 26 days (232 months, 1,012 weeks), counting through Wednesday.
The Tar Heels have their rst cross-country league trip with a Friday night visit to California (Oct. 17), then close the schedule with instate opponents: at Wake Forest (Nov. 15), home against Duke (Nov. 22) and at N.C. State (Nov. 29).
To everyone whom I’ve worked with in news and sports, thanks for your passion, hard work, dedication, patience and time.
I enjoyed giving out the Stanly Cup all those years. I loved watching our teams win all those state championships (I actually got to see all ve of our high schools in the NCHSAA win a state title and covered them in person).
I was also equally sad for the student athletes when they reached the state nals and did not win.
But win or lose, those teams represented our county at the state level with dignity and class.
You may yet see my name in the pages of this publication in the future.
For now, I’ll see you later.
Bill Belichick
FAREWELL from page B1
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Former South Alabama quarterback Gio Lopez, shown here before a game last season, has been named Bill Belichick’s starter at UNC.
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Sabrina Carpenter, Eminem’s ‘Stans,’ sci- comedy ‘Upload’ returns to Prime
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley play detective in “The Thursday Murder Club”
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SABRINA CARPENTER’S seventh studio album, “Man’s Best Friend,” and Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*” starring Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan are some of the new television, lms, music and games headed to a device near you. Also, among the streaming offerings worth your time: Some of the West’s biggest musicians are getting the K-pop treatment in the TV series “KPopped,” video game maker Sega tries to revive the Shinobi franchise and there’s Season 2 of “With Love, Meghan,” a lifestyle series from the Duchess of Sussex.
MOVIES TO STREAM
Marvel Studios’ “Thunderbolts*” didn’t make quite the mark in theaters that many expected it to, but the Jake Schreier-directed lm was still one of the most acclaimed MCU releases in years. After hitting theaters in early May, “Thunderbolts*” is now streaming on Disney+. With an ensemble including Pugh, Stan, Wyatt Russell and David Harbour, it follows a gang of ragtag superheroes who reluctantly come together as a team.
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie play elderly amateur sleuths in Chris Columbus’ “The Thursday Murder Club” (Net ix, Thursday). In the lm, based on Richard Osman’s 2020 novel, the group attempts to solve a crime from their seniors’ residence, Coopers Chase. Expect a cozy murder mystery with mature star power.
Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s “The Friend” (Now on Paramount+) stars Naomi Watts
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as a New York writer who reluctantly inherits the dog of her deceased mentor (Bill Murray). The dog isn’t just any dog, either, but a mammoth Great Dane named Apollo. The adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award-winning novel is very much a dog movie, but it’s also one about processing grief. In her review, AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr called it “one of those movies people complain they don’t make anymore, although its existence is a reminder that they do still make ‘them,’ meaning smart, emotionally authentic stories about people who seem real.”
MUSIC TO STREAM
Who’s a good girl? Carpenter hopes to be when she releases her seventh studio album, “Man’s Best Friend.” It will drop almost exactly a year after she released breakthrough album “Short n’ Sweet,” which spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Carpenter has been enlisting a golden retriever puppy and fans to unveil her track list on social media.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS The undersigned, having duly quali ed as Executrix of the estate of Larry Edward Mills, deceased, late of Stanly County, North Carolina, is hereby notifying all persons, rms, or corporations having claims against said decedent, or his estate, to present the same to the undersigned Executrix, duly itemized and veri ed on or before the 31st day of November, 2025, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the said decedent are hereby requested to pay the said indebtedness to the undersigned Executrix.
This the 25th day of August, 2025.
Drusilla J. Mounkes Executrix of the Estate of Larry Edward Mills
575 N. Williamson Blvd. Apt. 209 Daytona Beach, FL 32114
PUBLISH: August 31, September 7, 14, 21, 2025 James A. Phillips, Jr. Attorney for the Estate and Process Agent P.O. Box 1162 117 W. North Street Albemarle, NC 28002-1162
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NORTH CAROLINA STANLY COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK FILE NO. 25E000472-830 Having quali ed as Executor of the estate of Henrietta Hatley Mabry AKA Henrietta Thompson Hatley, deceased, of Stanly County, North Carolina, This
Stans of stans, unite. “Stans,” the Marshall Mathers-produced documentary about a cast of superfans of Eminem, directed by Steven Leckart, is on Paramount+. Eminem named the phenomenon 25 years ago with the release of his song “Stan” about an obsessive fan, which prompted the Oxford English Dictionary to eventually add the term. The lm “o ers a raw, loud and revealing journey across Eminem’s career — and the passionate audience that has grown with him.”
Apple TV+ has a new music competition series featuring iconic songs by some of the world’s biggest Western pop stars as they get the K-pop treatment. “KPopped” features K-pop groups ITZY, JO1, Kiss of Life, Blackswan, STAYC, KEP1ER, Ateez and Billlie teamed up with Western artists like Meg, Kesha, Patti Labelle, Kylie Minogue, the Spice Girls’ Mel B and Emma Bunton, Vanilla Ice, Taylor Dayne, Eve, J Balvin, Ava Max, Boyz II Men, Boy George, TLC and Jess Glynne. Together, o er new spins on classic songs like “Ice Ice Baby,” “Lady Mar-
NOTICE NORTH CAROLINA STANLY COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK FILE NO. 25E000415-830 Having quali ed as Administrator of the estate of Richard Bryan Pope, deceased, of Stanly County, North Carolina, This is to notify all persons having claims against the Estate of said Richard Bryan Pope to present them to the undersigned on or before Nov 10, 2025, or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate please make immediate payment. This 10th day of August, 2025 Allyssa Pope Chaney 35887 City Lake Drive Albemarle, NC 28001
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NORTH CAROLINA STANLY COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK FILE NO. 25E000445-830 Having quali ed as Executor of the Estate of Jo Anne W. Ragsdale aka Joann W. Ragsdale, deceased, of Stanly County, North Carolina, This is to notify all persons having claims against the Estate of said Jo Anne W. Ragsdale aka Joann W. Ragsdale, to present them to the undersigned on or before Nov 10, 2025, or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said Estate please make immediate payment. This 10th day of August, 2025
Curtis G. Ragsdale Jr. 707 Crestview Drive Albemarle, NC 28001 Executor
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25E000443-830 NOTICE TO CREDITORS The undersigned, having duly quali ed as Executrix of the estate of Paul Richard Currie, Sr., deceased, late of Stanly County, North Carolina, is hereby notifying all persons, rms, or corporations having claims against said decedent, or his estate, to present the same to the undersigned Executrix, duly itemized and veri ed on or before the 10th day of November, 2025, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the said decedent are hereby requested to pay the said indebtedness to the undersigned Executrix. This the 5th day of August, 2025.
Rhonda Cook Smith Executrix of the Estate of Paul Richard Currie, Sr. 44043 Ski Pond Road New London, NC 28127 PUBLISH: August 10, 17, 24, 31, 2025 James A. Phillips, Jr. Attorney for the Estate P.O. Box 1162 117 W. North Street Albemarle, NC 28002-1162
malade,” “Waterfalls,” “Motownphilly” and “Karma Chameleon.” All eight episodes stream Friday. SERIES TO STREAM
The sci- comedy “Upload” hits Prime Video for its fourth and nal season. Starring Robbie Amell, the series takes place in the not-too-distant future where humans can pay to upload their mind to a virtual afterlife when they die. Amell’s Nathan uploads in the rst episode and ends up falling for Nora, a human concierge assigned to help his transition go smoothly. Talk about a long-distance relationship! Created by Greg Daniels, who also created “The O ce,” the show deals with themes of class and ethics in technology.
“My Funeral” is a new Icelandic dark comedy about a man who on the same day as his retirement, a cantankerous man learns he has an incurable brain tumor and decides to host his own funeral. “My Funeral” can be seen on MhZ Choice, a streaming service for international titles.
More ower sprinkles! Season 2 of “With Love, Meghan,” a lifestyle series from the Duchess of Sussex is back on Net ix. The new episodes feature celebs like Chrissy Teigen, Tan France and chef José Andrés, who visit the former actor living well in Montecito.
Prime Video’s “The Terminal List” rewinds with a new prequel series starring Taylor Kitsch’s Navy SEAL-turned- CIA operative. “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf” is now available. Chris Pratt (who is also working on a second season of the original) also reprises his character. The franchise is based on books by Jack Carr. Thanks to celebrities like Halle Berry and Naomi Watts, menopause has become a more mainstream topic in recent years, and a new comedy
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The undersigned has quali ed as Executor of the Estate of BARBARA W WAKSMUNSKI, deceased, late of Stanly County, North Carolina (Stanly County File Number (25E000460-830). This is to notify all persons, rms or corporations having claims against said decedent or her estate to present the same duly itemized and veri ed to the undersigned Executor or his Attorney on or before the 24th day of November, 2025, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, rms and corporations indebted to the said decedent or to her estate are hereby requested to pay the said indebtedness to the undersigned Executor or his attorney.
This the 15th day of August, 2025.
Frank W Waksmunski
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Estate of Barbara W Waksmunski
Post O ce Box 133 Mt Pleasant, North Carolina 28124
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The Board of Commissioners of the Town of Norwood has declared surplus a vacant tract of land of approximately .40 acres on South Strand Drive referenced by Tax ID Number 657403206686. The Town is accepting o ers on this property with the intent to advertise the highest o er through the upset bid process as authorized by North Carolina General Statute 160A-269.
O ers can be submitted in writing to the Town
Administrator at Norwood Town Hall, 212 South Main Street, Norwood, NC or mailed to the Town Administrator at P.O. Box 697, Norwood, NC 28128. The current bid is $41,000. The next bid opening will occur on Thursday, September 11, 2025 at 11:00 am. The bid must be $43,100 or more with a 5% deposit. Inquiries can be directed to the Town Administrator at 704-474-3416.
“The Friend” is one of those movies people complain they don’t make anymore, although its existence is a reminder that they do still make ‘them,’ meaning smart, emotionally authentic stories about people who seem real.”
Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer
pokes fun at a woman’s journey through what grandma used to call “the change” or “the change of life.” “Middlehood” stars Elena Wohl as a woman going through a bit of a midlife crisis as she deals aging. The eight-episode series is streaming on YouTube. For those hooked on the love triangle between Belly and brothers Jeremiah and Conrad in Prime Video’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” Net ix has a returning title to o er. Season two of “My Life with the Walter Boys” arrives on the streamer on Thursday. It follows a teen who moves in with family friends after her parents die and nds herself torn between two brothers. “Walter Boys” is based on a book by Ali Novak that was rst published on Wattpad.
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The Knightling is hardly your typical dragon slayer — for starters, he doesn’t even have a sword. He does, however, have a magic shield that he can ride, kind of like a ying saucer. That’s enough to get him around the exotic land of Clesseia as he searches for the legendary Sir Lionstone. The journey begins Thursday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S and PC.
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The undersigned, STEVEN CZERSKI, having quali ed as Executor of the Estate of DOYLE EDWARD CZERSKI (A/K/A DOYLE E. CZERSKI and DOYLE CZERSKI), Deceased, late of Douglas County, Oregon, hereby noti es all persons, rms, and corporations having claims against the Estate to present such claims to the undersigned in care of the undersigned’s Attorney at their address on or before, November 10th, 2025, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, rms, and corporations indebted to the said Estate will please make immediate payment to the abovenamed Executor. This the 10th day of August, 2025. STEVEN CZERSKI, Executor Estate of DOYLE EDWARD CZERSKI Justin N. Plummer, Esq. Law O ces of Cheryl David 528 College Rd. Greensboro, NC 27410 Phone No.: (336) 547-9999 Fax No.: (336) 547-9477 Run Dates: 8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 2025
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“Stans,” a documentary about a cast of superfans of Eminem, left, and the series “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf,” right, are streaming this week.
famous birthdays this week
Van Morrison hits 80, Valerie Perrine turns 82. Roger Waters is 82, Beyonce turns 44
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THESE CELEBRITIES have birthdays this week.
AUG. 31
Violinist Itzhak Perlman is 80. Singer Van Morrison is 80. Rock musician Rudolf Schenker (The Scorpions) is 77. Actor Richard Gere is 76. Attorney and author Marcia Clark is 72. Actor Chris Tucker is 54.
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Attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz is 87. Comedian-actor Lily Tomlin is 86. Singer Barry Gibb is 79. Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw is 75. Singer Gloria Estefan is 68.
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Former Major League Baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth is 88. Football Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw is 77. Actor Mark Harmon is 74. Tennis Hall of Famer Jimmy Connors is 73. Actor Keanu Reeves is 61. Boxing Hall of Famer Lennox Lewis is 60.
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Singer-musician Al Jardine (The Beach Boys) is 82. Actor Valerie Perrine is 82. Filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet is 72. Rock guitarist Steve Jones (The Sex Pistols) is 70. Actor Steve Schirripa (“The Sopranos”) is 67. Author Malcolm Gladwell is 62. Actor Charlie Sheen is 60.
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Golf Hall of Famer Raymond Floyd is 83. Golf Hall of Famer Tom Watson is 76. Actor Khandi Alexander is 68. Actor-comedian Damon Wayans Sr. is 65. Baseball Hall of Famer Mike Piazza is 57. Singer-actor Beyoncé is 44.
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Actor Lucille Soong (“Fresh O the Boat”) is 90. Baseball Hall of Hamer Bill Mazeroski is 89. Actor William Devane is 86. Actor George Lazenby is 86. Film director Werner Herzog is 83. Singer Al Stewart is 80.
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Actor Valerie Perrine, seen in a scene from the 1974 lm “Lenny,” turns 82 on Wednesday.
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Dr. Phil McGraw visits “Jesse Watters Primetime” in New York in 2024. The famous
75 on Monday.
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Lennox Lewis throws a right at David Tua during the second round of their heavyweight championship bout in 2000. The boxing hall of famer turns 60 on Tuesday.
“Cathy” cartoonist Cathy Guisewite is 75. Actor Michael Keaton is 74.
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Comedian JoAnne Worley is 88. Cartoonist Sergio Aragonés is 88. Country singer-songwriter David Allan Coe is 86. Rock singer-musician Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is 82. Comedian-actor Jane Curtin is 78. Actor-comedian Je Foxworthy is 67. Actor Rosie Perez is 61.
New Beatles ‘Anthology’ projects to be released this fall
A restored version of the 1995 music documentary comes to Disney+ on Nov. 26
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BEATLES FANS will be feeling some “real love” for this: New content from the iconic band is coming this fall on screen, in music and in print.
“The Beatles Anthology” will be returning “in its ultimate form,” according to a release issued last Thursday.
The famed 1995 “Anthology” music documentary, recounting the band’s journey beginning with its Liverpool roots through to its explosive stardom, has been restored and remastered, and it will feature a new, ninth episode. It will stream on Disney+ beginning Nov. 26.
The ninth episode features behind-the-scenes footage of Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr coming together in 1994-95 to work on the series and “re ecting on their shared life as the Beatles.”
Giles Martin, son of the late
Beatles producer George Martin, who died in 2016, has created new audio mixes for the majority of the featured music.
New “Anthology” music will be released Nov. 21. A fourth album, to be released alongside remastered versions of the rst three, includes 13 previously unreleased demos, session recordings and other rare recordings.
“Anthology 4” also includes, according to the release, new mixes of the Beatles’ “Anthology”-related hit singles: “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love.” The original “Free As A Bird” music video has also been restored.
“’The Anthology’ was always about their past, but this new edition con rms its enduring place in the present and future.”
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“‘The Anthology’ was always about their past, but this new edition con rms its enduring place in the present and future,’” the release noted.
The “Anthology” updates come as Beatles fans ready for not one, not two, but four feature lms about the band. All directed by Sam Mendes, the lms each focus on one Beatle. The lead actors will be Paul Mescal as McCartney, Joseph Quinn as Harrison, Barry Keoghan as Starr and Harris Dickinson as Lennon.
The two new mixes come alongside 2023’s “Now And Then,” the last Beatles song. (All three singles were created from home demos that John Lennon, who was killed in 1980 outside the Dakota apartment building, recorded not long before, with vocal and instrumental parts later recorded by McCartney, Harrison and Starr.) A 25th anniversary edition of the Beatles Anthology Book will arrive Oct. 14. In the book, all four Beatles recall the band’s journey. They’re joined by colleagues including Neil Aspinall, George Martin, Derek Taylor and others.
In ‘Splitsville,’ a screwball comedy of in delity with some cinematic verve
The lm belongs more to a zany tradition stretching back to the 1930s
By Jake Coyle The Associated Press
YOU CAN SAY THIS: Mi-
chael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin know how to start a movie.
Their 2020 breakout lm, “The Climb,” begins with two best friends on a bike ride just before Kyle (Marvin) is to be wed. Mid-climb, Mike (Covino) confesses he slept with the bride-to-be. In one long take, an argument on two wheels ensues, with hu ng and pu ng in between. Their new follow-up to that lm, “Splitsville,” likewise kicks o with heartbreak on the open road. This time, Carey (Marvin), a gym teacher, is driving along a highway with his life coach wife, Ashley (Adria Arjona). They seem happy enough, though there are hints of trouble. When Ashley says she wants to have new experiences, Carey suggests pottery. Ashley corrects him: “I meant sexual.”
When an erratic driver careens o the road, they run to check on the passengers. Finding the woman thrown clear of
the car, Ashley — faced with her own mortality — decides then and there to get a divorce. In both “The Climb” and “Splitsville,” these are just the rst sharp turns in relationship roller coasters that unfold in clattering one-take set pieces mixed with nakedly frank
heart-to-hearts. Their movies — Covino directs; they write together — are a little like Wile E. Coyote versions of a rom-com. And part of their considerable appeal is in how much Marvin and Covino are willing to put themselves through the ringer. Like “The Climb,” “Splitsville”
is a relationship farce that keeps amplifying and recycling. From the scene of the accident, as the credits unspool, Carey trudges seemingly aimless across the countryside. (Splitsville is Nowheresville.) Eventually, though, he arrives at the handsome lakeside home of his child-
hood best friend, Paul (Covino), who lives there with his wife Julie (Dakota Johnson) and young son Russ (Simon Webster).
Paul and Carey have a close enough relationship that Paul comes right into the shower to check for ticks on Carey. Later that night, he and Julie casually acknowledge that they have an open marriage. Julie, for instance, could sleep with anyone. Even Carey, they note.
Much of the fun of “Splitsville” is seeing how things topple from here, but it’s obvious enough that Julie and Paul’s agreement will get tested, very quickly. From there, the four central characters of the lm — Carey, Paul, Julie and Ashley — will take various turns in less of a romantic triangle than an adult game of musical chairs. Though there are elaborately choreographed long takes that smack of contemporary moviemaking, “Splitsville” belongs more to a screwball tradition stretching back to the 1930s.
I’m convinced, though, that the performer here who would have been most at home in that bygone comedy heyday is Johnson. For the second time this year, following “Materalists,” she nds herself caught between the a ections of two men.
The twists and turns of “Splitsville” can grow a little tiresome. Reversals pile on top of each other. But in a movie about in delity where everyone is lying more to themselves than to their partners, those patterns e ectively lead back to where everyone started.
Three stars out of four.
TV show host turns
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From left, Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin, Adria Arjona and Dakota Johnson star in “Splitsville.”
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The Beatles, from left, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, arrive in Liverpool, England, in 1964.
this week in history
Princess Diana dies in Paris crash, Massacre at Munich Olympics, “On the Road” published
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1881: The rst U.S. tennis championships (for men only) began in Newport, Rhode Island.
1886: An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of up to 7.3 devastated Charleston, South Carolina, killing at least 60 people.
1962: The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent of British colonial rule.
1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed after the car she was riding in crashed in Paris; her partner Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul also died.
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1715: Following a reign of 72 years, King Louis XIV of France died four days before his 77th birthday; he was succeeded by his 5-year-old great-grandson, Louis XV.
1914: The passenger pigeon, once one of the most abundant bird species on Earth, went extinct as the last known example, named Martha, died.
1939: Nazi Germany invaded Poland, an event regarded as the start of World War II.
1985: A U.S.-French expedition located the wreckage of the Titanic o the coast of Newfoundland.
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1666: The Great Fire of London began, which would destroy more than 13,000 homes and hundreds of additional structures, including St Paul’s Cathedral.
1789: The United States Treasury Department was established.
1864: During the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s forces occupied Atlanta.
1945: Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II.
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1783: Representatives of the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, which o cially ended the Revolutionary War and recognized U.S. sovereignty.
The Great Fire of London began on Sept. 2, 1666, in a bakery on Pudding Lane and burned for four days, destroying over 13,000 homes, 87 churches and St. Paul’s Cathedral.
1861: During the Civil War, Confederate forces invaded the border state of Kentucky.
1939: Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declared war on Germany.
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1781: Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers under the leadership of Governor Felipe de Neve.
1957: Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus ordered Arkansas National Guardsmen to prevent nine black students from entering all-white Central High School in Little Rock.
1972: The longest-running game show in U.S. history, “The Price is Right,” debuted on CBS.
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1774: The rst Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia.
1905: The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed, ending the Russo-Japanese war; for mediating the peace negotiations, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the Noble Peace Prize the following year.
1957: Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road” was published.
1960: Muhammad Ali (as Cassius Clay) won the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing division at the Olympic Games in Rome.
1975: President Gerald R. Ford survived an assassination attempt by Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, in Sacramento, California.
1972: Palestinian militants attacked the Israeli Olympic delegation at the Munich Games, killing two and taking nine others hostage; ve of the militants, a German police o cer and all nine hostages were killed in the following 24 hours.
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1901: President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Bu alo, New York.
1975: Eighteen-year-old tennis star Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia requested political asylum in the United States.
1997: A public funeral was held for Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey in London.
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On Sept. 4, 1972, the game show “The Price Is Right,” hosted by Bill Cullen, debuted on CBS.
