About me
I’ll be adding more to this as time goes by ….
For starters, I’m the son of Joel Liggett and Patricia Stearns … they created me back in 1976 in Steubenville, Ohio. I was a true blue Yankee for the first eight years of my life before my family packed up and moved to Atlanta. I survived the awful styles and bad hair of the mid-1980s and moved to Sulphur Springs, Texas in 1987.
I transferred to nearby Como-Pickton High School in 1991, my sophomore year, and played football and baseball for the Eagles. From 1994 to 1998, I lived in Nacogdoches, Texas, and attended Stephen F. Austin State University (where I met my wife, Jennifer St. Clair). It was there I joined the Nu Tau chapter of Kappa Sigma Fraternity … so AEKDB to you, too.
I spent a year in Lafayette and attended the University of Louisiana-Lafayette before one last transfer to Texas A&M-Commerce. In all, college lasted me six years … and no, I’m not a doctor.
Jennifer and I moved to Dallas after school where she joined Nordstrom and I began my journalism career at newspapers in Greenville and Sulphur Springs. We moved to Houston in 2002, and I got my first editor job at the Pearland and Friendswood Reporter News.
Jennifer and I were married on a beach in St. Thomas (U.S. Virgin Islands) on Aug. 12, 2003.
In March, 2004, I was hired as City Editor by the Opelousas Daily World in Louisiana, and I became Managing Editor in 2006.
In February of 2007, Jennifer and I moved to Sanford, North Carolina, where I am now Editor of The Sanford Herald, and Jennifer is marketing director of the Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce.
Jennifer and I are the proud “parents” of an 8-year-old Jack Russell Terrier, Honey, and a year-old Labernese pup, Miles. We welcomed into the world our daughter, Hayley Alexandra Liggett, on Oct. 3, 2009.
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pam | September 24, 2007 at 2:09 pm
How about them Cowboys……
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Wall$treet | November 27, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Nice Blog Billis!
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kenneth sr. | April 22, 2008 at 5:20 am
I am just now seeing your article and post on Kenny George.
You and the rest of these respondants must be fans of some type of Superiority of Southerners or something but certainly not of Basketball. First and foremost Tyler Hansborough did not really dunk on Kenny by fair rules and regulations of the game , the boy traveled and took 3 steps to get to the rim. Kenny could’nt believe that the officials did’nt bother to call the violation. How do you Southerners jump with joy as if the Black evil giant was slain, when in fact Kenny was kicking theyre behinds all night and there was nothing Tyler or the others could do about it. Until Tyler was allowed to make a violation in order to get up and dunk before Kenny could get to him in regular fashion and time. That is called cheating, and it is cheap and tawdry of you people to celebrate a cheap and cheating move at the expense of this young man just to glorify your predjudice and elevate your false Idol Hero Tyler.
By the way replay the Video of the dunk and count Tylers steps. It is a violation and Kenny knew it. I have trained and raised him better than to have a look of being at a point of urgency because he’s in the presence of Some place like Chapel Hill. Therefore if he had a look of being nonchalant it is because he realizes that they are no better than he and vice versa. There was nothing they could do to stop Kenny and yet you cheap tawdry Southerners want a hero so bad you’ll cheat and create one. Check the facts. Remember Tyler was getting his but whipped by Kenny all game long when they were both in there at the same time. If your going to beat me or mine then do it by Game rules and regulation not by cheating politics and hype.
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gordonanderson | April 24, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Geez, looks like you miffed Kenneth Sr. with your tawdry Southern superiority political hype. Knock if off, Billy.
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Lisa | May 8, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Has there been any news on the “soccer ball dog”? I really hope they catch the person(s) responsible. I’ll never understand how anyone could harm an animal who wants nothing more than love from humans…
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Tricia | August 8, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Nice intro! One little thing, though. Sanford is in Florida, not North Carolina.
I pass by the Herald building on my way to work. If I ever see you in the lot, I’ve give a honk and send a wave!
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Mark | October 13, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I liked your post last year about Christmas coming too early. I feel the same way, and wrote a cartoon on the topic at the url above. Thought you might get a kick out of it.
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christy mcneill | February 14, 2009 at 12:02 pm
how is the running going?
There are a couple 5K runs coming up. April 4th at Kiwanis and April 18th in Broadway.
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Scott (super) T | July 21, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Nice Site and Good to hear from you
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Scott (super) T | July 21, 2009 at 9:48 pm
oh, and congrats on the kiddo