Cordova News

To get the communitya s response to proposed Voluntary Agriculture Districts, Interim County Extension Director Paige Burns is hosting five information sessions in the coming weeks.

A Cordova Elementary More at Four student was one of the first to be given an H1N1 vaccination injection Thursday afternoon.

Efforts to assist a Cordova Fire Department volunteer who is in the hospital in South Carolina with a serious illness are continuing, and a dinner will be held Saturday at the department to benefit his family.

Firefighters from the East Rockingham Fire Department visited Rohanen Middle School Tuesday to share fire safety tips during Fire Prevention Week, which lasts from Oct.

Philip D. Brown RIchmond County Daily Journal The Richmond County Board of Education will decide Tuesday whether to rename Chalk Road Elementary School.

The new Chalk Road Elementary School off of Airport Road is beginning to take shape.

Five Richmond County schools with high growth were among 13 that made adequate gains in standardized testing, according to the statea s ABCa s evaluation this week.

Tom MacCallum Richmond County Daily Journal An Ellerbe man has been arrested for breaking into a teenagera s apartment and allegedly attempting to rape her, said Capt.

Cordova Fire and Rescue, Ellerbe Rescue and Hamlet Fire and Rescue members Tuesday evening were out on the Pee Dee River practicing boat maneuvering and water rescue with their Rescue One boats.

In 2008, when Richmond County Schools was handed its No Child Left Behind evaluations, only four of the systema s schools were determined to have made sufficient academic progress over the course of the 2007-08 school year.

Combating crime in Richmond County will consume some 14 percent of the budget for fiscal year 2009 to 2010.

Tom MacCallum Richmond County Daily Journal Richmond County Board of Commissioners meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday and may appoint a new county manager.

Discussing the project with Rep. Larry Kissell are, from left, Peter Raabe, director of American Rivers Division of North Carollina Conservation; and Howard Schnabolk, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Services Center, who are overseeing the work; Kissell and Rockingham Mayor Gene McLaurin.

Tom MacCallum Richmond County Daily Journal An Ellerbe woman was arrested on charges in connection with identity theft, said Capt.

The Hoffman school is slated to be closed for school purposes officially after a public hearing and vote from the Richmond County Board of Education, but it may not have reached the end of its usefulness to the community.

Tom MacCallum Richmond County Daily Journal Two young people have been arrested in connection with the theft of a handgun from a house on Lear Street, Cordova, said Capt.

It could be the beginning of the end of an era for decades of elementary school students in Richmond County.

MAY 12 NAACP: Community monthly meeting May 12 at 7:30 p.m. at Marston First Baptist Church, 220 Stroman Road, Marston.