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Service offers up prayers for grads
High school eniors and their families, community members and leaders gathered for the third annual baccalaureate service at Westwood Baptist Church Friday evening, hosted by My Life …
Readers choose best of Person County
Walking through the doors of Antioch Baptist Church, many would say the first thing you feel is love. “Anybody that walks in there, they just soak them up. In fact, one of the things we get so …
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Season's Greetings 2018
Let’s actually observe Memorial Day
Here’s a challenge for you. Take some of your upcoming time off and spend it expressing your thanks to someone.
Memorial Day …
Foreign-born students call Roxboro home
Spent some time Sunday afternoon with some young people from all around the world, including two who have called Roxboro home …
A book about black people, not white racism
Elizabeth City native De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s debut novel, “In West Mills”, might be the blackest novel set in North …
What’s next for our grads?
Roxboro residents are gearing up for graduation season. Piedmont Community College sent the members of its Class of 2019 out into the …
State ranks high in college funding
North Carolina appropriates less taxpayer money to state colleges and universities in real terms than it did before the onset of the …
Following your dreams: advice to the youth
I had the opportunity to speak to some boys and girls about following their dream a few weeks ago.
I was invited by Roxboro Housing …