Editorials

Last week it was reported that Utah has been named the Best State to Live by U.S. News and World Report for the second straight year.
Your feelings might have been hurt if you saw North Carolina came in at Number 19.
I, too, was disappointed. I was hoping to see us around the 45-50 range. More on that later in the column.
It is fantastic that Utah took the top spot. People who are thinking about moving should definitely move there.

Though every element of this year's Blooming Festival seemed to have rolled out smoothly, unfortunately an incident Saturday evening will forever remain in our thoughts.
When we, as organizers, were notified shots had been fired behind the jail, and in real time I was watching thousands of people making a mass exodus from the carnival area running towards our direction at the stage end, my heart sank.

This photo originally published in The Graphic on May 7, 1970. Pictured are new officers for the Rocky Mount Moose Lodge.