Industrial job fairs draw hundreds seeking employment
ROCKINGHAM — Direct Pack’s job fair last month, the first since expanding into the county, exceeded the company’s expectations and there are more to come this summer. Laura Murphy, vice president of...
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Rising costs lead to increase in Richmond County’s water, sewer fees
ROCKINGHAM — The increased water and solid waste fees outlined in the final budget went into effect on July 1, and along with that came several changes to the Richmond County Water Department’s rules...
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Worker charged with theft of rings
ROCKINGHAM — The Richmond County Sheriff’s office has charged Charles Jacob Dudley, 40, of Laurinburg with the theft of two diamond rings from a person who hired him for household chores. The rings...
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Dobbins Heights gardenersshare their bountiful crop
DOBBINS HEIGHTS — Residents tilled the entire plot of their thriving community garden for the first time Friday, and planted more okra while they were at it. Varneice Morrison, one of the more...
View ArticlePastors seekthose who willdo good works
ROCKINGHAM — People of all faiths — or no particular faith — are invited to meet again July 21 to seek community-wide answers to poverty, homelessness and other difficulties that plague Richmond County...
View ArticleRockingham man jailed on drug charges
ROCKINGHAM — O’Joshua James Thomas, 26, of Rockingham has been charged will selling crack cocaine and marijuana to a confidential informant on multiple occasions, the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office...
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School cafeterias earn top grade
ROCKINGHAM — School cafeterias and a Hamlet convenience store are among the most scrupulously clean food preparers in Richmond County — and have been for nearly two decades. So say the just-conferred...
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Buried under trash,cemetery sinks into‘deplorable’ state
DOBBINS HEIGHTS — Here lie hundreds of Dobbins Heights family members and loved ones. And over here lie a few mattresses, TVs, toilets, tires, and piles and piles of discarded bottles and cans. This is...
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‘I came to do my best’
ROCKINGHAM — “You got more gold than Mr. T got!” Eddie Dean said to his longtime friend Dawn Grooms as she put on the glistening gold medals she had won at the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games in...
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Hamletrenewsrescuecontract
HAMLET — The city has renewed its contract with Hamlet Fire and Emergency Medical Services, marking the first renewal since the rescue squad split from the fire department two years ago. The city kept...
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Neighbors make the best news
This wasn’t what I imagined I’d be doing right now. I had books to read, wine to sip, grandchildren to spoil. The last is what brought me out of retirement and to Richmond County a little more than a...
View ArticleRelatives wantDobbins Heightsto buy cemetery
DOBBINS HEIGHTS — The reluctant caretaker of the Dobbins Heights cemetery, Jane Mask, broke her silence Friday on the issue of the trash buildup at the cemetery, saying she didn’t have the money to fix...
View ArticleFaith-based group moves meeting
ROCKINGHAM — Those wishing to form a faith-based group to perform good works won’t be able to meet at the public library on Saturday, but the reason they can’t is in some dispute. The Rev. James...
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Buried under trash,cemetery sinks into‘deplorable’ state
DOBBINS HEIGHTS — Here lie hundreds of Dobbins Heights family members and loved ones. And over here lie a few mattresses, TVs, toilets, tires, and piles and piles of discarded bottles and cans. This is...
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RCC graduates 10 from LPN program
HAMLET – Ten graduates of the Practical Nursing program at Richmond Community College exited the Cole Auditorium on Tuesday night to a round of great applause from family and friends. The pinning...
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Infant’sillnessleads tocharges
ROCKINGHAM — The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday arrested a Rockingham woman they believe tried to kill an infant. Following a report by the Richmond County Department of Social Services,...
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Three charged with making meth
ROCKINGHAM — The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office has jailed three Rockingham residents on methamphetamine charges. No one would answer the door Monday, when deputies responding to a report of...
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Read a booklet, stay out of jail
ROCKINGHAM — Since February, 117 people from Richmond County struggling with addiction, locked up in or released from prison — and their family members — have graduated from a program designed to help...
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A bed, a meal, a homeOld school becomes a Place of Grace
ROCKINGHAM — With workers removing debris, adding walls and sprinklers to future living space, and getting the kitchen up to snuff, Rohanen Middle School soon will find new life as part of the Place of...
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Ellerbe man, 18,charged in theftof tools, vehicles
ROCKINGHAM — Sheriff’s deputies have charged an Ellerbe man in connection with two vehicle thefts and a break-in earlier this month that, all together, netted the thief an estimated $8,000. Boyce...
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