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New job training course begins at Place of Grace

ROCKINGHAM — The residents at the Place of Grace Rescue Mission attended the first day of Richmond Community College’s job preparation course now offered in Place of Grace’s new computer lab on Monday. The 20-hour [...]
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Hamlet native Seaman hired as new musuem director

HAMLET — Jennifer Seaman said before she was 4, she could name all the cars on a train. She said some of her first words were words like “engine” and “box car.” Seaman was born [...]
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Richmond County sheriff’s office dispatch to move to 911 center

ROCKINGHAM – Beginning on the morning of Feb. 24th, Emergency Services will take the last step in the process to merge all four dispatch centers into a single dispatch point at the newly-minted Emergency Services [...]
Columns

Following Lawson through the Carolinas

Why would anybody want to spend months walking from the South Carolina coast, up through the Piedmont to present-day Charlotte, and then back east to the North Carolina tidewater? There are two good reasons, one [...]
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Rain,rain,go away

The weekend in Rockingham was lousy, weather-wise. Forecasters described it as gloomy, cool and damp. Too bad Punxsutawney Phil doesn’t predict the rain schedule, although he did predict we will have an early spring. How [...]