CANINES TAKE FLIGHT AT MILL Dozens of pups competed Saturday in the “Diving Dog” competition at Old Gilliam Mill Park in Sanford. Day 3 of the competition begins today at 3 p.m. Visit www.carolinadockdogs.com for more info. MORE PHOTOS INSIDE, PAGE 4A
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SUNDAYQUICKREAD ELECTION 2010 SCHOOL BOARD Q&As INSIDE; EARLY VOTING COMES TO AN END
SANFORD POTTERY FESTIVAL • DAY 1
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INSIDE Two full pages of Q&A from the seven candidates vying for three seats on the Lee County Board of Education. Pages 12-13A
EARLY VOTING More than 1,400 Lee County voters cast their early ballot during early voting, which ended Saturday. Election Day for the May primary is Tuesday. Details on the election, from where to vote to what your ballot will look like, will be featured in Tuesday’s edition of The Herald.
SPORTS
JACKETS TOP CAVS IN ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP SOFTBALL GAME Although the Lee County Yellow Jackets won the 10th Annual Priscilla Anne Edwards Scholarship Endowment softball game 6-2 against county rival Southern Lee on Saturday afternoon at Tramway Athletic Park, this was one of those times where the final score wasn’t the most important part of the game Full story, Page 1B
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Benita Baldwin (right) checks out the wine offerings presented by Hope Glover of Grapefull Sisters Winery in Taper City in the wine tasting tent Saturday at the Sanford Pottery Festival.
Wine tent full, chocolatiers busy, crowds large on first day of two-day Pottery Festival Saturday
Sanford Pottery Festival
By BILLY LIGGETT
OIL SPILL
May 1-2 Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center, Sanford
bliggett@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — Wayne Farrar’s Hammerstone wines have been on the shelves locally for just 18 months. In that time, the Harnett County vintner has seen few days as successful as Saturday. Farrar and nearly a dozen other North Carolina wineries displayed their products — from merlots to muscadines — under a white tent in the middle of Day 1 of
EXPERTS: OIL SPILL IN GULF HAS TRIPLED IN SIZE The surface area of a catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill quickly tripled in size amid growing fears among experts that the slick could become vastly more devastating than it seemed just two days ago Stories, pages 10-11A
See Pottery, Page 3A
Day 2 of the festival runs today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $5. For more information, visit www.sanfordpotteryfestival.com
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Donna Hausman of Cary checks out a few pieces of pottery on Saturday at the Dennis A. WIcker Civic Center.
Organizers estimate Saturday’s crowd could have been a record-breaking one; woman injured when picnic table tipped over sanfordherald.com
SANFORD BRICK AND TILE
Iconic business leaves behind memories
OUR STATE
By BILLY BALL
PRIMARIES BUCK TRENDS IN NORTH CAROLINA ELECTIONS
bball@sanfordherald.com
Disenchanted Republicans and bickering Democrats are contributing to a soaring number of primary races for North Carolina’s General Assembly, putting a dozen or so incumbents on edge and bucking the state’s normal trend of uncontested campaigns Full Story, Page 8A
Vol. 80, No. 102 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
SANFORD — Bob Brickhouse, as a rule, is not a nostalgic man. Times change. People change. Brick Capital U.S.A. can change, or at the very least move down the road to Moncure. Still, Mr. Brickhouse, was
HAPPENING TODAY Temple Theatre’s final production of the 2009-2010 season, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific,” features the theater’s own Peggy Taphorn, Michael Brocki and Ken Griggs. For tickets, call (919) 774-4155 or visit www.templeshows.com CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
there any twinge of sadness as you watched demolition crews tear down the once bustling Colon Road plant of the Sanford Brick and Tile Company, the plant where you worked for more than four decades? “I’m not bothered by it,” Brickhouse said. “Progress
See Brick, Page 5A
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The now-demolished Sanford Brick and Tile plant.
High: 91 Low: 69
INDEX
More Weather, Page 16A
OBITUARIES
BILLY LIGGETT
Sanford: Marty Genzlinger, 70; Lucille Hall, 80; Mabel Owen; Monica Palacios, 2 months; Bobby Robinson, 59; Ralph Watson, 77
Interview with music legend Maurice Williams a highlight in editor’s career
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