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LAURA GREENE

Reporter · US

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Sep 26, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · LAURA GREENE | HPE

    Cuckoo for cocoa: High Point entrepreneur launches gourmet chocolate business (opens the original)

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    Before Jennifer Watson initiated her fledgling chocolate company from her home last year, she didn’t know how to make a chocolate bar any more than she knew how to make a crowbar. “I kid you not, I had never made ... (chocolate) before,” the 43-year-old High Point woman says. “But I’m the kind of person that will jump out there and try anything.” And so it was that a year ago this month, Watson launched Perikles Noir, an artisanal chocolatier that specializes in small-batch, bean-to-

  2. Article · Aug 22, 2026 · LAURA GREENE | HPE

    Built to last: Beeson Hardware employee retires after 70 years of service (opens the original)

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    HIGH POINT — Some employees these days struggle to stay with the same company for 70 weeks, so give Billy Ray Beck his due. The 88-year-old Thomasville man recently retired from Beeson Hardware after working there for, ahem, 70 years. Well, technically, it’s 72 years — he worked for Beeson part-time for a couple of summers before going full-time — but who’s counting? “He’s just been very dedicated to our company,” says Ed Spivey, president of Beeson Hardware. “He’s a hard-wor

  3. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · PHOTOS BY LAURA GREENE | HPE

    Never too old: Senior swashbuckler goes skydiving at 100 (opens the original)

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    THOMASVILLE — When most people reach their golden years, they begin to slow down a bit, but Millie Shelton is not most people. The 100-year-old Thomasville woman — whom her son-in-law has taken to calling “the Energizer Bunny” — earned a brown belt in judo in her 60s. Since then, she has ziplined at Niagara Falls, climbed the spiral stone staircase to kiss the Blarney Stone in Ireland, taken a hot-air balloon ride, and next month she’s booked for a 175-mph NASCAR ride-along at Charlo

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