“When you get a letter that says don’t drink or use the
water for cooking, yeah, I guess you do get pretty scared.”

— Deborah Graham, Dukeville resident

“It’s an itch I have to scratch every once in a while.”

— Brien Lewis, president, Catawba College, on taking a role in the latest Piedmont Players’ production

“I thought I was just lazy. … I couldn’t walk anymore.”

—Dorothy Cuthbertson, on her Parkinson’s disease diagnosis

“We are not celebrating a building, an idea or location. We are celebrating a much anticipated solution.”

— Josh Wagner, chairman, Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education, at groundbreaking for central office

“They always ask if all my players liked me. Well, the top eight did.”

— Sam Moir, former Catawba College basketball coach