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Winter Storm Warning in effect starting Saturday night

ROCKINGHAM — The National Weather Service has put a Winter Storm Warning in effect from midnight Saturday night through midnight Sunday for central North Carolina, including Richmond, Scotland, Anson and Moore counties.

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CDC encourages use of N95 masks over cloth masks

NEW YORK — U.S. health officials on Friday encouraged more Americans to wear the kind of N95 or KN95 masks used by healthcare workers to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

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Winter Storm Warning in effect starting Saturday night

ROCKINGHAM — The National Weather Service has put a Winter Storm Warning in effect from midnight Saturday night through midnight Sunday for central North Carolina, including Richmond, Scotland, Anson and Moore counties.

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County out of rapid tests; new cases spike while hospitalization rate lower than Jan. 2021

ROCKINGHAM — The state-run COVID-19 testing site behind the Richmond County Health Department ran out of rapid tests last Friday and it’s not clear when they will have more, Health Director Cheryl Speight said Wednesday.

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Filing period for local elections to resume Feb. 24

ROCKINGHAM — The filing period for the local elections will resume at 8 a.m. on Feb. 24 and end at noon on March 4, following a ruling by the Superior Court of Wake County issued Tuesday evening.

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‘Standing on holy ground’: Samaritan Colony breaks ground on SECU Women’s Recovery Center

ROCKINGHAM — At long last, Harold and Constance Pearson and the rest of the leadership of Samaritan Colony were able to put shovels in the ground on Monday to foreshadow the coming of the SECU Women’s Recovery Center.

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