THE STARS WERE OUT The second annual Dancing With the Lee County Stars drew another big crowd and raised more than $55,000 for Communities in Schools Friday night. Full story, Page 4A Photos at sanfordherald.com
(Left) Micah Tyler and Michele Bullard perform the opening routine at Friday night’s Dancing With the Lee County Stars.
Photo by Wesley Beeson
The Sunday Herald SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 2010
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SUNDAYQUICKREAD
SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: THE HISTORIC SHARPE STORE
SPORTS
Celebration of bluegrass
LEE COUNTY HEADS INTO SEASON OPENER WITH CONFIDENCE
Burton Cates is pleased about where his program is headed after seeing his Yellow Jackets in action during three preseason scrimmages against Union Pines, Southern Alamance and E.E. Cumming Page 1B
BUSINESS
ALEXA MILAN /The Sanford Herald
Tim Tron and his son Jonathan perform bluegrass music on the front porch of the Sharpe Store in Goldston on Thursday. Several musicians and other artists will converge on the historic building Saturday for a celebration of bluegrass music.
Century-old Sharpe Store in Bear Creek to honor a legacy of front-porch strummin’ on Saturday By ALEXA MILAN amilan@sanfordherald.com
A YEAR AFTER DISPUTE, THINGS RETURN TO NORMAL AT SMITHFIELD The owner of the world’s largest hog slaughterhouse and the union it fought in one of the South’s longest-running labor disputes have buried more than 15 years of animosity
BEAR CREEK — Tucked away just outside Goldston is an unassuming little building with a century of history at its doorstep. Its wood panels are faded. A rusty Pepsi sign hangs above the front porch. The shelves are lined with groceries that are now only
decorative. Chairs are aligned on the front porch, where it’s easy to imagine people laughing and talking, sipping iced tea and enjoying the sounds of a banjo or guitar. The Sharpe Store is a window to the past, with the distinct feeling of a simpler time. And more than 100 years after it was built in the 1880s, music continues to be the thread
that holds it together. “It’s all about the preservation of string music,” said Tim Tron, a member of the Sharpe Store Music board of directors. The Sharpe Store was originally a place where people could buy groceries and chat with friends and neighbors
See Sharpe, Page 8A
WANT TO GO? What: Sharpe Store celebration featuring bluegrass and much more When: All day, Aug. 21 Where: 5889 Pittsboro Goldston Road, Bear Creek Tickets: $5, free admission for children Learn more: 542-8401, www.sharpestoremusic.org
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ELECTION 2010 GULF OIL SPILL OBAMA: LEAK HAS STOPPED, BUT WORK IS FAR FROM OVER
The first family dashed to the Florida Panhandle on Saturday so President Barack Obama could play pitchman — Gulf Coast beaches are clean and open for business — and assure residents his government won’t abandon them now that the busted well has stopped spewing oil Page 11A
Vol. 80, No. 192 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
McCrory stops in Sanford to stump for Stone From staff reports SANFORD — Republicans feel like they have a good shot at overtaking District 51 in the North Carolina House this November, so the local party brought out the big guns to support candidate
HAPPENING MONDAY n A showing of the film version of the book, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” will be held at 7 p.m. at the Lee County Library. Registration is strongly suggested due to limited seating.
CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
Mike Stone on Saturday. Pat McCrory, the longestserving mayor in Charlotte’s history who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2008, spoke to a sizable crowd of Lee County Republicans VFW Post on Webb Street and asked those on hand to
help turn the tide in Raleigh and boot a legislature that’s raised taxes during the one of the worst recession’s in the state’s history. One of the ways to do that, he said, is by picking
See McCrory, Page 8A
High: 92 Low: 71
Broadway: James McIver, 66 Angier: Betty Pleasant, 80 Siler City: Sallie Sharp, 96
McCrory
INDEX
More Weather, Page 12A
OBITUARIES
Stone
BILLY LIGGETT Yet another celebrity has risen from the ranks of Liggett’s tiny high school
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Abby, Graham, Bridge, Sudoku............................. 7B Business .......................... 9B Classifieds ..................... 11B Sunday Crossword ............ 7C Community calendar .......... 2A Horoscope ........................ 7B Obituaries......................... 5A Opinion ..........................6-7A Scoreboard ....................... 4B