November 8, 2009
MONROETON — In the middle of mile after mile of farmland stands a building that could one day mean the difference between life and death for southern Rockingham County residents. The gleaming new fire station on Benaja Road means shorter response ti...
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WENTWORTH — Talitta Harris, a senior at Rockingham County Senior High School, wants to be a cosmetologist. Michael Latham, a senior at McMichael High School, loves animals and wants to study wildlife conservation.
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REIDSVILLE — Twenty-seven flags are flying today over the graves of Armed Forces veterans buried in the historic Mount Bethel Evangelical Covenant Church cemetery in Bethany. Those flags represent men who have died in war since the church was founde...
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The Governor’s Task Force for Healthy Carolinians has recertified the Rockingham County Healthy Carolinians Partnership. The organization was recertified during the 17th annual Healthy Carolinians Conference on Oct. 8 in Greensboro.
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75 YEARS AGO From Greensboro Daily News, Nov. 8-14, 1934 Rockingham County’s tobacco markets continue to do well, with poundage remaining strong and prices holding steady. In Reidsville, nearly 100,000 pounds were sold but the qual...
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FUNDRAISERSOngoing The ACES office at Brooks Global Studies is collecting aluminum cans as a service project for the Ronald McDonald House Charities. Mail or bring cans to Nathalie or Brooke, 1215 Westover Terrace, Greensboro, NC 27408. 370-8347.
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Fun stuffTODAY ■ 14th annual Carolina Home Show & Sale, 12:30-4 p.m. Nov. 8, Hawk Spirit Studio, 613 Live Oak Road (off N.C. 14), Reidsville. Live music 1 p.m. Sunday. 349-8363 or www.hawkspiritstudio.wordpress.com.
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November 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — Five hours. That was a long time for a pregnant woman to be on her feet waiting in line to get a filling at the dentist. Not that Stephanie Atkins, one of 549 people processed for treatment by 1 p.m. at the Missions of Mercy dental clin...
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RALEIGH — Students in Guilford and Forsyth counties would begin studying for careers in the aviation industry as early as middle school under a program developed by GTCC and funded by a Golden LEAF grant of $1.45 million.
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GREENSBORO — For the employees at Flow Lexus selling vehicles took a backseat to capturing an exotic bird on Saturday. Salesman Ted Van Hoy spotted Goldy, a male Reeves pheasant missing from his home in Guilford Hills for about two weeks. The bird w...
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EDEN — A call about a suspicious vehicle early Saturday morning turned into an investigation of a triple shooting that left one man dead. Police said Timothy Ronnel Seay, 37, of 1205 Maxin Road in Martinsville, Va., died of multiple gunshot wounds o...
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JAMESTOWN — Ten-year-old Colt Childress pouted after receiving his H1N1 vaccination Saturday at GTCC’s Medlin Center. But for mom Tammy Childress, the peace of mind that came from getting her son vaccinated was worth it.Colt suffered from...
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GREENSBORO — Four people charged in connection with a July hit-and-run accident that left a woman dead inside a car along U.S. 29 were among those indicted this week by a grand jury.
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When 81-year-old Laszlo Berkowits recently stood at the entrance of the gas chamber at the infamous Auschwitz death camp complex, it occurred to him this would have been where his mother saw her last bit of sunlight.
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WENTWORTH — Sheriff Sam Page on Friday named a 21-year veteran of the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office as his chief deputy. Abner Bullins, previously the sheriff’s administrative captain, was promoted to major. Page recognized him and...
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Triad Health Project provides emotional and practical support to people living with HIV/AIDS, to their loved ones, and to those at risk for HIV/AIDS.
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November 6, 2009
GREENSBORO — The operating room isn’t real. The patient and the surgeon aren’t either. Nor are the intricate and varied medical devices. But the results of this video- game-style simulator could be very real for the surgical technicians...
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RALEIGH — The state Senate's top leader is endorsing Sen. Martin Nesbitt of Buncombe County to become his top lieutenant. Senate President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight wrote a letter Friday to Senate Democrats asking them to support Nesbitt as the next...
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CAMP LEJEUNE — A North Carolina Marine was arrested Friday in the death of a fellow Marine at Camp Lejeune. Pvt. Jonathan Law, 21, was in military custody after a homicide about 1 a.m. Friday, according to Capt. Timothy Patrick, a Marine Corps spoke...
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RALEIGH — The state's highest court says three cigarette companies no longer have to make payments to tobacco farmers in Maryland and Pennsylvania through a decade-old settlement.
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REIDSVILLE — The driver of a Lincoln Town Car drifted into the wrong lane, causing an accident on N.C. 14 on Friday morning, the Highway Patrol said. The accident was reported at 9:25 a.m. Friday near the American Red Cross offices. Trooper D.C...
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CAROLINA BEACH (AP) — The stepmother of the police officer who shot an Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers said Friday the woman's heroics are not surprising.
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ELON — Mary and John McKissack realized they needed to make a change to pay college tuition for their 16-year-old daughter in a few years. The family of six has relied on John’s income because Mary McKissack home-schools their children.So, Mar...
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WHITSETT — Lots of residents are taking advantage of the trial period allowing them to drop off recyclables behind Town Hall. In early October, one week after it began, the town had to ask the waste-collection company to double the number of 96-gall...
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