ROCKINGHAM — Two Richmond County residents, a student and a teacher, move on to the state finals in their respective categories after being named winners on both the local and district levels through the Veterans of Foreign Wars Voice of Democracy Program.

HAMLET — Richmond County students are tentatively scheduled to return to classes the first week of February.

ROCKINGHAM — Richmond County’s daily COVID-19 case count on Friday was less than half of what it was the previous day.

ROCKINGHAM — Both Richmond County and the state set new records for daily COVID case counts on Thursday.

ROCKINGHAM — As more than 80 North Carolina counties are listed as having critical spread of the coronavirus, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services wants residents to “stay home.”

ROCKINGHAM — The number of new cases and hospitalizations related to COVID-19 both increased on Tuesday.

ROCKINGHAM — Richmond County has started off the new year with more than 100 new cases of COVID-19.

ROCKINGHAM — Richmond County Sheriff James Clemmons opened superior court on New Year’s Day for a special session — the swearing-in of Ben Moss.

ROCKINGHAM — The Richmond County Health Department on Thursday reported two COVID-related deaths and 41 new positive cases of the coronavirus.

After hearing the news of the passing of former state senator Marc Basnight, whom the Carolina Journal referred to as “perhaps the most powerful figure in N.C. politics during the first decade of the 21st century,” I was reminded of the time I met him in the late ‘90s.