SAVANNAH, Ga. — Martha Inez Byrd Talsania, 48, peacefully passed away on Jan. 21, 2020 at Hospice House of Savannah, Georgia.

HAMLET — Richard Pait and Hobson Cato last week presented a check for $2,000 to Benny Leviner of Toys for Tots at Fairview Heights Elementary.

The donation was made on behalf of CSX employees.

ROCKINGHAM — Thomas Allen Connor, 75, passed away Saturday, Nov. 9 at his residence in Rockingham.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Larry "Keith" Dennis, 69, of Myrtle Beach South Carolina, formerly of Rockingham, passed away Wednesday Nov. 6 2019 in Myrtle Beach.

CHARLOTTE — Mrs. Helen Hart Braswell, 77, of Charlotte, passed away Thursday, Oct. 17 2019.

ROCKINGHAM — Brothers John Patrick and Alexander Hutchinson recently returned from St. Petersburg, Russia, where they participated in the International Piano in the Palace Festival, hosted by Russian concert pianist Alexander Yakovlev.

On July 22, 2019, Edwina “Wendy” Wright Snipes, 52, went home to be with the Lord.

ROCKINGHAM — The Redefining and Empowering Adolescent and Community Health Program of the Richmond County Health Department held a Youth Leadership Summit on March 14, 2019 at the First Presbyterian Church of Rockingham. 

MARSTON — Seven cadets of the Richmond Senior High School Army JROTC Raider Battalion and a few others conducted a small memorial ceremony and cleaned up around the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion's monument near Lake Kinney Cameron on Saturday — 75 years after eight members of the unit perished in the lake during a training jump.

HAMLET — Gloria Mask knew there was power in presence. 

And she realized that the real power was consistency, showing up and riding the bus to Moral Monday marches in Raleigh; to NAACP executive committee meetings in Richmond County; to Hamlet City Council meetings and the swearing in of the first Black fire chief in Hamlet; protesting a potential poisonous landfill in Richmond County; or calling and writing Sen. Jesse Helms to remove the carcass of the Imperial Chicken Plant in Hamlet in 1992.