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Margaret Mauney remembers when downtown Gastonia thrived.

They call him the Piano Man.

The Easter egg hunts are over.

Some students come to the landscape and gardening classes with “green thumbs” already perfected.

The images are all too familiar: buildings ripped apart in tornado-ravaged neighborhoods.

Get ready to rip another page off the 2012 calendar - and move closer to the Democratic National Convention.

It's the first time Moises Miranda has been on an airplane.

When Gaston College students returned to classes after Christmas break, they found a slightly altered environment.

Russell Duren opened his jewelry store in downtown Gastonia nearly 60 years ago.

Maybe I'll win the lottery this year.

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Joe DePriest
Joe DePriest is a columnist for the Neighbors of Catawba & Gaston.