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ROCKINGHAM — Newly installed Mayor John Hutchinson is calling for participants to lace up their sneakers and celebrate the city’s first long-distance run — more than 140 years ago.

ROCKINGHAM — Richmond County is in line to receive more than $32 million in appropriations with the passage of the state budget.

HAMLET — Richmond Community College will host a "Morning Mingle" at the Robinette Building to bring together community members, business owners, students and alumni to discuss various topics and events happening at the College or in the local community.

ROCKINGHAM — With a crisp autumn coolness in the air Sunday evening, a local paranormal investigation team wrapped up its annual downtown ghost tour.

ROCKINGHAM — There will soon be another gym downtown thanks, in part, to a city loan.

ROCKINGHAM — Melinda Murphy says she was “a weird kid,” with her interest in accounting starting at a young age.

ROCKINGHAM — Speckled Paw Coffee will open its Richmond County location on Friday.

ROCKINGHAM — With government-imposed restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many events were canceled in 2020.

Conventional wisdom has it that progressives champion urbanity and conservatives disdain it. There’s some truth to that. Progressives are far more likely than conservatives to prefer walkable, high-density communities over auto-dependent, detached-dwelling neighborhoods. Urban areas tend to vote heavily Democratic and rural areas Republican. Even in the more-competitive suburbs, those closest to downtowns tilt blue while outer-ring suburbs and exurbs are red.

ROCKINGHAM — Richmond County native and fantasy author T. Russell Parker has announced the book signing date for ”A World Without War: Unwanted,” which will be Saturday, Feb. 29.