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Hamlet Police Captain Scott Waters takes the stand to raise sexual assault awareness at Cole Auditorium.
Community collaborates to fight sexual assault
Local residents and members of the Richmond County Sexual Awareness Response Team (S.A.R.T.) gathered outside of the Cole Auditorium on Richmond Community College’s campus recently in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (S.A.A.M.). Students, volunteers and local law enforcement officers attended the program to show support of the effort to protect the community from sexual assault. Everyone received a teal ribbon to represent the ...
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Rep. Ken Goodman
Omnibus gun bill set to be heard
An omnibus bill that would increase the penalties in certain crimes involving firearms, but would also relax some firearm restrictions, is set to be heard by the state’s House Judiciary Subcommittee A on Wednesday. House Bill 937, titled Amend Firearm Laws, was filed on April 11 and is sponsored by State Representatives Jacqueline Schaffer, of the 105th District; Justin Burr, of the 67th District; John Faircloth, of the 61st District and Ge...
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Contributed photos Sixth Grade A Honor Roll pictured are front row: Jayla Copeland, Triston Davis, Morgan Hooks, Anaya Jones, Kathryn Massagee, Chicaya McDaniel, Lilly Merghani. Back row: William Mossman, Hunter Smart, Kaiyah Sriratanakoul, Adam Tatum, Jordyn Wall, Greyson Way.
Hamlet Middle School recently released the honor roll for the fourth six weeks
Sixth Grade A Honor Roll Jayla Copeland, Triston Davis, Morgan Hooks, Anaya Jones, Kathryn Massagee, Chicaya McDaniel, Lilly Merghani, William Mossman, Hunter Smart, Kaiyah Sriratanakoul, Adam Tatum, Jordyn Wall, Greyson Way. Seventh Grade A Honor Roll Diamond Anderson, Anna Auman, Brock Bartlett, Anthony Bell, Owen Bowers, Madison Brigman, Destiny Buie, Kristin Chappell, Chase Coulthard, Miranda Cumber, Haylie Edmunds, David Greene, Al...
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Mike Collins
Time management seminar offered
The Richmond Community College Small Business Center will host “Getting It All Done: Time Management for Champions,” on April 30 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Honeycutt Center in Laurinburg. The seminar will show attendees how to find an extra hour a day, plan on purpose and plan with a purpose, deal with difficult people, set and track priorities (are you trying to do too much?), meet timelines and deadlines: how to do three things at once, w...
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Quitline helping smokers
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is providing extra help for N.C. tobacco users who want to quit for good. QuitlineNC, the state’s toll-free telephone and online support service to help tobacco users quit, is making nicotine replacement therapy such as patches, gum or lozenges, available at no cost while supplies last for North Carolina residents who enroll in quit coaching. Each enrollee will develop a personali...
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Dawn M. Kurry | Daily Journal Tony Martin at Martin Mini Storage in Rockingham now offers a new moving solution, called COWs or Containers On Wheels, practical for storage, moving or de-cluttering during renovations.
Richmond County finds storage solutions in ‘COWs’
Perhaps you’ve seen large containers with cows painted on them either parked beside someone’s house or on the lot of Tony Martin at Martin Mini Storage and Rentals in Rockingham on Fayetteville Road. COWs - Container on Wheels, a growing mobile storage company, opened its second location in North Carolina at the beginning of this year. COWs will be partnering with Martin Mini Storage and Rentals in Rockingham to bring mobile storage contain...
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Local pastor to be broadcast live
A pastor from Hamlet will have his sermon broadcast live on TV this Friday. Pastor Timothy Newton of Bible Way Ministries, 110 Bible Way Church Road in Rockingham, will be featured on The Word Network during the “Rejoice in the Word” Telecast at 8 p.m., hosted by George G. Bloomer. Pastor Newton will fly to Michigan for the broadcast on Thursday and until then he will plan out his sermon. Newton was born and raised in Hamlet, and began ...
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Public notice change gets OK from Senate
RALEIGH — More local governments would be allowed to post legal notices online rather than in newspapers to comply with North Carolina law in a bill narrowly given final approval Tuesday in the state Senate. The Senate gave its final approval and voted 26-22 in favor of the legislation — SB 287 — that would give 10 counties and nearly all the municipalities within them the option to place notices for things like proposed zoning changes, pub...
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Contributed photo Former Associate Superintendent Robert Beck.
Community honors long-time educator
“It’s been a good ride, folks.” Associate Superintendent Robert Beck stood before teachers, administrators and community members on Thursday afternoon as he offered his final testament to Richmond County Schools. The nearly 41-year veteran to the school system attended a special retirement celebration in his honor at the First Presbyterian Church in Rockingham. Beck began his career in Scotland County as a 7th grade Science and Physical E...
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Contributed photo The cast of “The Dining Room” gathers on the set as the Richmond Community Theatre awaits a large audience for the opening this week.
‘The Dining Room’ to open this week
Richmond Community Theatre’s next play features the life of a set of dining room furniture and the families that own it over the course of time. Written in the early 1980s by playwright A.R. Gurney, the play shows 18 different scenes that intertwine and overlap as characters over time interact with each other. The play makes fun of the characters, as well as white Anglo-Saxon protestants, or WASPS. The production runs April 25-28 and May ...
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