After the fire, a family survives
What happens after a fire is a tale that is not often told. Former neighbors notified the News and Press about the hardships the family of six is enduring weeks after the home they were renting suffered a fire on Friday, February 13.
A look back: Sherman’s March through the Upper Pee Dee
By Samantha Lyles, Staff Writer, slyles@newsandpressonline.com As the Union army of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman blazed a trail of destruction through the Confederate south in February and March of 1865, many homes were burned, many possessions stolen, and many lives lost. Some communities in the Upper Pee Dee region suffered great indignities at the hands of greedy Federal foragers, and the echoes of their terror still reverberate...