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Students express meaning of MLK Jr. Day through essays, drawings

Students throughout the Richmond County school system participated in an essay and photo contest sponsored by the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Foundation of Richmond County Steering Committee. Students were presented with the theme, “Unity: [...]
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Church forced to cut Sunday services to support food program

ROCKINGHAM — The Tabernacle Full Gospel Baptist Church cut its Sunday services to two a month starting with the new year to support the We Care Food Center, the church’s program to offer fresh produce [...]
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Land says county could face jail shutdown, stresses need to satisfy inspectors

ROCKINGHAM — The Richmond County Board of Commissioners at their annual planning meeting Tuesday confronted the looming possibility of a state jail inspector telling the county that they would have to stop housing inmates at [...]
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Enviva receives permit to expand production with added emissions constraints

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated in its headline and first paragraph that the permit would allow Enviva to expand its logging practices. The company does not do logging, instead sourcing unused [...]
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Good Samaritan saves child from dog attack

ROCKINGHAM — A good Samaritan saved a young girl from a potentially deadly dog attack Wednesday. Haiden Prevatte, 6, had just gotten dropped off by the school bus on Billy Covington Road when two dogs [...]