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First Posted: 8/19/2014 The college football season is ready to kickoff in little more than a week. For the first time in a while, the collegiate spotlight is shining brightly on the ACC, well at least one school. The conference has the reigning champion — Florida State. The Seminoles are…

First Posted: 8/15/2014 ROCKINGHAM — Voters in Richmond County and throughout the state will decide this November whether defendants in superior court should be able to waive their right to a jury trial. A proposed amendment to North Carolina’s state constitution slated for November’s ballot “would allow a person accused…

First Posted: 7/15/2014 CARTHAGE — Unlike the first matchup when Lumberton pounded out a win over Rockingham, the rematch was much different. But the result was still the same — a Lumberton victory. Rockingham pitchers Jenna Greene and Ragan Liles limited Lumberton to three hits, but Lumberton bunched those together…

First Posted: 12/19/2013 Who among you are without fault? Who among you have lived their life without fault? I dare to say so very few of us have. At times in our life, we say and do very foolish and hurtful things. For the most part, this is directed at…

First Posted: 11/4/2014 ROCKINGHAM — To say the contest between Richmond Senior and Scotland is huge would be an understatement. The winner of Friday’s rivalry game will not only earn the league championship and top seed out of the Southeastern Conference, but perhaps more importantly, bragging rights for another year.…

First Posted: 6/7/2013 The Rockingham City Council is expected to adopt the city’s new budget when it meets Tuesday. The new proposed spending plan would keep the city’s tax rate the same for property owners, and include a modest increase in pay for city employees. A public hearing on the…

First Posted: 9/29/2014 ROCKINGHAM — Richmond County’s clerk of superior court is also a gospel singer with three studio CDs under her belt and plans for a new album early next year. The two careers don’t seem compatible at first glance, but Vickie Daniel said her path is guided by…

First Posted: 1/17/2015 Raven Newton, age 11, sings a song as a tribute to her grandfather, the Rev. Tommy Legrand, who was also the honoree during this year’s MLK festivities. Thomas Covington reads his own rendition of the famous “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr. King and receives a…

First Posted: 8/10/2012 A memorial service to celebrate the life of Cecil Wayne Collins will be conducted at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, at Church of God of Prophecy, 609 Cheraw Road in Hamlet with Rev. Steve Crews officiating. Mr. Collins was born March 11, 1954, in Richmond County,…

First Posted: 3/2/2012 On Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, Evelyn Ingram Avant was honored with a birthday party at the Rotary Lodge on Hinson Lake in Rockingham. To help celebrate this special occasion were approximately 150 of her family and friends. Evelyn Ingram Avant is the daughter of the late Sanders…

First Posted: 2/18/2013 Saturday’s wet roads contributed to a collision on Highway U.S. 1 in Hoffman that sent five people to the hospital, and resulted in one death, police said. The crash claimed the life of Harley Morse, 16, of Rockingham, who died Sunday at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill,…

First Posted: 2/17/2012 Identical twins Madison and Macy Smith celebrated their one year birthday party on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, at their home with a Baby Minnie Mouse theme party. Their parents are Joey and Christy Smith of Rockingham. They have an older brother, Joseph Smith and older sister, Camryn…