Larry McDermott, Author at The Tryon Daily Bulletin
Life on the farm- Larry McDermott
To some perpetually disgruntled folks, a newspaper is “that rag.” But to the larger community in its greatest hour of need, it is a cool ...
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by Larry McDermott, Wednesday, November 13, 2024 2:12 pm
Life on the farm- Larry McDermott
Relief workers and tons of supplies have been rolling into Western North Carolina since shortly after Helene hit, but if the most powerful body of ...
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by Larry McDermott, Friday, November 1, 2024 12:28 pm
Life on the farm- Larry McDermott
In North Carolina, the county sheriff is a powerful person. How he uses that power can make him either a workhorse or a showhorse. Here ...
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by Larry McDermott, Wednesday, October 16, 2024 1:37 pm
Life on the farm- Larry McDermott
It was heartbreaking enough that we had to deal with rivers unleashing death and destruction in our beloved Western North Carolina. Compounding that was the ...
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by Larry McDermott, Friday, October 11, 2024 8:30 am
Columnists
If you spend any time studying social media, you will soon reach the same conclusion that I have: people want veterinarians to be the Dollar ...
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by Larry McDermott, Friday, September 27, 2024 2:40 pm
Life on the farm- Larry McDermott
It was inspirational, but a bit sad, to sit there and listen to citizens express their fears and offer their resistance to a proposed 56-lot ...
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by Larry McDermott, Friday, September 13, 2024 12:03 pm
Film Talk with Tryon Theatre
The press conferences are almost always the same now. They feel like a familiar old hat. Every imaginable law enforcement agency, elected official and educator ...
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by Larry McDermott, Friday, September 6, 2024 11:20 am
Life on the farm- Larry McDermott
The world around us is imperfect, filled with controversies, disagreements, and imperfection, but it never suffers from the ancient practice of questioning authority. Like most ...
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by Larry McDermott, Friday, August 30, 2024 10:16 am
Life on the farm- Larry McDermott
We need more housing, but we don’t need more housing. We have a conundrum. The acronym NIMBY emerged in the 1970s. It was a catchy ...
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by Larry McDermott, Friday, August 23, 2024 10:38 am
Life on the farm- Larry McDermott
When the local economy is roaring like a wood-burning stove in the middle of a January ice storm, every business entrepreneur’s idea is a winner ...
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by Larry McDermott, Friday, August 16, 2024 10:27 am
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