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Richmond County Sheriff’s Office - arrests and complaints for March 4, 2013
The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office recently made the following arrests: • Steven Deon Wall, 22, of Hamer Mill Road, Rockingham, was arrested for selling cocaine. Wall was placed under a $4,000 secure bond. • Ian Barkler Cole, 21, and David Chapman, 20, were arrested at Morrison Correctional by the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office for having possession of marijuana while on prison property. Both were given a written promise to appear and...
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Anson County celebrates a day of catfish
Anson County will have its 3rd annual Catfish Stew Cookoff at Hatcher Park in Lilesville, from 12 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 16. All cooks who enjoy a challenge are encourage to attend the search to find out who is really the best. The stew will be judged by a new select panel of judges and a champion will be crowned. If you’re not interested in spending the day cooking, you can join the fun and root for your favorite team. You can also...
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Pictured are students who made the A Honor Roll. On the front row, left to right, are Laysie Hamilton, Robin Edwards, Rayne Morgan, Letticia Ocampo, Thomas Barbee. Back row, left to right, are James Brooks, Jaklobe Baldwin, Julia Beck, Caleb Davis, Kendall Watson, Garrett Spicer.
East Rockingham Elementary School has announced its Honor Roll for the third six weeks
A/B Honor Roll 3rd grade: Iyana Wall, Ryan White, Elana Torres. Jalil Ocampo, Malissa Kelly, Isaiah Wall, Caylie Holden, Jarrett Lockey, Devin Lyons, Logan Russell, Jaiden Baldwin, Harley Honeycutt. 4th grade: Jay Ammons, Jennifer Cox, Jonathon Hill, Skye Kegley, Michael Martin, Isaiah Clark, Spirit Davis, Jaelynn Jackman, Preston Dawkins, Kacee Hoffman, Kailey Saillor, Tavon Wallace, Isabella Walters, Hunter Price, Joey Dunn, Katelyn Mil...
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County to discuss Vision 2020 - Richmond County’s future
A new plan for Richmond County’s future will be presented at Monday’s County Board of Commissioners’ meeting. Chairman Kenneth Robinette and Richmond Community College President Dale McInnis are the co-chairs for the Vision 2020 Plan. This plan was an update of the last Civic Index, done in 2004, and was accomplished through the help of Bill McCoy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the Richmond County Development Team. Rob...
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Contributed photo Donnie Byrd, a Monarch volunteer, serves a meal at Prayer Deliverance’s soup kitchen. Volunteers make a significant impact in programs that rely on them.
Monarch volunteers make impact in county
Monarch is an organization that supports developmentally disabled people who live in group homes and take part in the community by volunteering and working, and the volunteers are having an impact in Richmond County. According to the organization, Monarch volunteered about 35,000 hours across the state, which equates to an economic impact of more than $660,000. The people Monarch supports with intellectual and developmental disabilities in ...
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Rockingham Fire Department kept busy in 2012
John Charles Robbins Daily Journal Editor The number of structure fires in the City of Rockingham in 2012 was nearly the same city firefighters dealt with the year before, according to the 2012 Annual Report of the Rockingham Fire Department. City firefighters responded to 14 structure fires last year, compared with 16 in 2011, reported Fire Chief Charles Gardner. The chief prepared the 24-page report and presented its details recentl...
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U.S. Senator Richard Burr
Without compromise, sequester takes effect
Laura Edington Richmond County Daily Journal As federal lawmakers left Washington on Thursday to start their weekend, so did any hope of avoiding the sequestration. On Thursday at midnight, the forced spending cuts that President Barack Obama and his administration have been warning about took effect. In 2011, Congress passed a law that said if the government couldn’t agree on a plan to reduce the national deficit by $4 trillion, then...
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Contributed photo To celebrate Black History Month, Barbara Stroman performed "In The Morning". A poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African American poet to gain national recognition. Stroman, who has performed the poem in a number of churches and will perform it again on Sunday, is pictured at St. Peters in Hamlet. Stroman said she learned the poem over 40 years ago and it never completely left her memory.
Poetry for Black History Month
Contributed photo To celebrate Black History Month, Barbara Stroman performed “In The Morning,” a poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African American poet to gain national recognition. Stroman, who has performed the poem in a number of churches and will perform it again on Sunday, is pictured at St. Peters in Hamlet. Stroman said she learned the poem over 40 years ago and it never completely left her memory.
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Laura Edington | Daily Journal Hot dogs were sold to raise money for Cassie Patrick, who had a tumor removed from her stomach on Monday.
Hope 4 Cassie helps one local woman pay her medical bills.
A hot dog fundraiser was held Friday to help a local woman with medical bills, the result of treatment for a tumor in her stomach. The kids of Faith Academy, in Rockingham, got the idea to help their math teacher and co-founder of the academy, Cassie Patrick, with medical bills she received after having surgery. In March 2012, doctors found a tumor in Patrick’s stomach. Patrick, 24, of Rockingham, does not have health insurance and put of...
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Candi Cox joins RE/MAX
Candi Cox has joined RE/MAX Southern Realty as a member of its sales team. “My first responsibility is to help my buyers and sellers,” said Cox. “And my move to RE/MAX will be a significant benefit to my clients, because RE/MAX has the most powerful name brand in real estate. With nearly 90,000 Sales Associates in more than 80 countries, when I list a property here in Richmond County it’s exposed to a huge audience. That exposure is driven ...
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