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National Night Out
Members of the community braved the heat together to celebrate National Night Out Tuesday at Palace Pointe.
Dog owner addresses board, calls for Palmer’s resignation
The owner of the dog shot by Person County Commissioner Charlie Palmer fought back tears as she addressed the board during Monday night’s scheduled meeting and called for his removal from …
Latest news
Semora man in custody after hours-long standoff
A Semora man is in custody after a five-hour standoff with law enforcement Wednesday.
Kevin Desilva, of Paradise Lane, Semora, was being served with a domestic violence protective order at his …
Council, Planning Board discuss future developments
The Roxboro City Council and Planning Board discussed the future of development in the city at a planning session Monday night.
As an introduction, Planning Director Lauren Johnson gave an …
COG seeks public development input
The Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments is seeking the input of the general public to assess the region’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats as it begins forming its …
Three new arrests made following July shootings
The Roxboro Police Department has made three arrests related to shootings July 9 and 10 in the Burch Avenue area.
The department has also seized three firearms believed to be involved during a …
New chambers among items discussed by BOC
In what was supposed to be a light Person County Board of Commissioners meeting with only one piece of new business scheduled to be presented, Interim County Manager Ralph Clark brought up three …
Sports
Tyler White, a rising senior at Person High School, competed with his Dirtbags travel baseball teammates at the Perfect Game National …
Thanks to a financial grant, Person High School athletes now have a newly-built, top-notch weight room to work out in.
The shiny …
Lillie Davis was a lights-out pitcher and dynamite hitter during her four years on the Person High School softball team.
She will …
When Wingate University women’s basketball player Elana Ingram suffered a sprained MCL in the closing moments of a late season …
Special Sections
We must invest and prioritize education
“We don’t have any teacher applicants for our vacancies,” said two superintendents from rural North Carolina public …
Community-oriented policing
Nearly 200 years ago, Sir Robert Peel famously penned nine principles of policing. Those principles remain foundational to 21st …
Cookbooks that tell stories
What North Carolina cookbook has sold the most copies?
If you ask the folks at UNC Press they will tell you that “Mama …
How to read this column
One of the consequences of writing a syndicated column on politics and public policy for more than a quarter of a century is that I am …
Fort Bragg can help
To the editor:
The “gun violence” in our nation has reached critical mass. The budgets of small countries and …
