Ellerbe News

The unofficial election results are in for all of Richmond Countya s 2009 municipal elections, and the mayors of Rockingham and Hamlet overcame challengers to retain their offices, while the two city councils gained one new member apiece.

Monday nighta s Richmond County Board of Commissioners meeting has a busy agenda including discussions on leash laws, the Ellerbe wastewater regionalization project and inland ports.

Rockingham Mayor Gene McLaurin hasn't faced a challenger for his position in an election since last century, but County School Board member and former chairman Bruce Stanback has filed to run on the city's November ballot.

During Tuesday nighta s Rockingham City Council meeting the council approved its grant agreement with the Golden Leaf Foundation for $664,424 to be used for the East Rockingham Sewer Improvements.

Richmond Community College Recruiter Jennipher Love talked with middle and high school counselors from Richmond and Scotland counties Tuesday about the Learn and Earn Program where high school students can take online courses from RCC for free.

Bret Auman and his daughter Janet Pavlic pick out two pumpkins Monday afternoon at Johnsona s Peaches on their way back home to Orlando, Fla.

While a lawsuit is set to go to trial today involving the fatal shooting of a Green Beret trainee by a Moore County lawman, local officers say communication has come a long way since 2002 when the Army exercise ended in tragedy.

Tweets and Creeks Would you like to know more about birding, but don't know where to start? Or do you know a lot about birding and want to observe the fall migration with fellow enthusiasts? Triangle Land Conservancy is offering a great opportunity for both the novice and experienced birder to enjoy this pastime at three convenient locations a ' ...

Town of Dobbins Heights election will be held on Tuesday while early voting in other municipal elections across Richmond County is slated to begin on Oct.

Rockingham Civitan Club installed new officers for the year 2009 and 2010 Thursday.

Eren Tataragasi Richmond County Daily Journal As a way to fund programs and other needs of the Thomas H. Leath Memorial Library in Rockingham, The Friends of the Library will host its annual used book sale from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on Oct.

J.P. Ellerbe Mt. GILEAD -- J.P. Ellerbe, 78, of Mount Gilead, died Thursday, September 24, 2009 at First Health/ Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst.

Former Home Economics teacher Myrtle Stogner looks at pictures of her classes and recalls a time when students were taught more than math and English in public school Home economics was once a stalwart of American education.

A home on Fenton Street, Rockingham, was robbed on Sept. 19 by someone who took $475 cash and prescription Percocet.

Pictured on bottom row are DeLani Reep, Abigail Hamilton, Eli Maske, Will Meacham, and Jordan Carroll.

Richmond Community College is planning JobsNOW orientation events to increase interest in a federally-funded program to train workers for a new career in about six months.

The hobby of keeping bees isna t as sweet in 2009. a oeTherea s just no honey flow this year,a said Thadis Rogers, a member of the local Beekeepers Club.

Residents from a neighborhood surrounding a proposed bar spoke out in opposition Tuesday night arguing the bar would disturb their neighborhood and tempt the recovering alcoholics and drug addicts seeking refuge at a nearby treatment center.

During Tuesday's Richmond County Planning Board meeting, the group will hear requests for a game room, night club/bar and a new billboard.

For over four hours Saturday at the Rankin Museum in Ellerbe, children and their parents sorted through washed material brought from the Aurora Phoshate Mine in eastern North Carolina searching for fossils such as sharks' teeth and bones of sea creatures.