Make Yourself
at Home Here

At The Pilot, we often receive phone calls from folks asking every coneivable question about life here in the Sandhills. We happily answer as many of them as we can.

That’s because we consider ourselves the most reliable source for information about this special place that we all are so fortunate to call home.

You can find many of the answers to those frequently asked questions every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday in the pages of The Pilot, your national award-winning hometown newspaper — and every day on our Web site, thepilot.com. In your hands, you are holding our attempt to put together as many of those bits and pieces as we can into one handy reference book — a compendium of local lore and data that you can use all year long.

In hopes of continuing to improve The Guide, now in its sixth edition, we’ve added a few new features to this year’s edition. For starters, Jim Dodson, a New York Times best-selling author and our writer-in-residence, has captured the essence of the Sandhills in a delightful essay that anchors this book. In addition to Jim’s thoughtful work, we’ve added a full-color map with many of our local attractions plotted on it, as well as a section on transportation.

Whether you were lucky enough to be born here or smart enough to move to this Eden in the Pines, we want to deliver to you all the information you need to make your life here in the Sandhills as fulfilling as possible. Over these past six years, our goal for The Guide has been to gather all the information you need about living in this area and present it to you in an attractive and easy-to-read format. We hope you like the results.

No matter if you’re puzzling over where to take your aluminum cans for recycling or trying to decide which golf course to tackle next, we hope you find the answer here. If not, give us a call. We’ll find it for you — and include it in next year’s Sandhills Guide.

As always, thanks for choosing us as your information source.

David Woronoff
Publisher