Ellerbe News

These days, more and more locals are taking a look at where their food comes from.

Discussion of the wastewater regionalization project between Ellerbe and Rockingham dominated the Ellerbe Town Councila s monthly meeting Monday, according to Mayor Lynn McCaskill.

Six incumbents and one political newcomer filed to run for office in municipal elections Monday.

When it comes to fireworks, leave it up to the professionals. Thata s the advice of North Carolina Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin.

There are solemn holidays designed for reflection and reverence. On Veterans Day and Memorial Day we pause to remember the sacrifices of those who served in our military.

A congressional hearing on CAFTA fraud - and its effects on the American textile industry - was held Thursday, with two North Carolina mill owners testifying.

The 2009 municipal filing period will begin officially on July 6, at 8 a.m. at the Richmond County Board of Elections office.

Perhaps nothing will ever bring the textile industry back to North Carolina to the extent it was decades ago.

" In February 2008, when Ellerbe resident Ray Von Chambers was referred to the Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center at FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital, he was dangerously close to losing both his legs.

Former Michigan coach Brian Ellerbe has been hired as an assistant coach at George Washington.

Jack Berry has been united with a seizure alert dog, but only through an outpouring of assistance and goodwill from Richmond County as a whole.

Tom MacCallum Richmond County Daily Journal Five people have been arrested in four cases by the Richmond County Sheriffa s Office on charges they have been involved with illegal drugs, Capt.

The Golden Seashell was found Thursday near a blue water tower with crossed checkered flags along U.S. 220 between Ellerbe and Rockingham.

USC has received one of 18 grants as part of the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Grant Program.

A Richmond County Sheriffa s detective, who was shot in the leg last year in a drug bust, was recently hit by the car of a fleeing suspect.

U.S. Army Special Forces Captain Ivan Castro and Lieutenant Colonel Fredrick Dummars live out the Warriora s Ethos mottos of a oeI will never give up,a and a oeI will never leave behind a fallen comrade.a Castro was blinded in Iraq in September 2006.

The House That Peanuts Built now rests on a new foundation at 4-H Camp Millstone where it was moved in 2004 from the Rudolph Carl Ellis home place in Cumberland County.

Richmond Community Collegea s Basic Skills Program assisted nearly 300 people in getting their GEDa s last year alone.

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

The Center of Excellence to Prepare Teachers of Children of Poverty at Francis Marion University will have its summer institute June 29 featuring Marsha Greenfeld, senior program facilitator for Johns Hopkins University's National network of Partnership Schools, and James C. Ellerbe, principal of Spring Lake Middle School in Fayetteville, N.C. The ...