Jaxx Yard sale There will be a yard sale on April 28th for Jaxx Denny on Highway 14 at the Driving Range 2540 Hwy 14 to raise money to help with some high medical bills. You can donate items by contacting Pam at pamsdenny@yahoo.com or phone 336-432-8070. Rain date is May 5th. So do what [...]
Another New Section for DRBA May 5 First Saturday – – – On Saturday, May 5, the Dan River Basin Association (DRBA) invites you to paddle a particularly interesting section of the Smith River, including a portion new to DRBA’s outings. The organization’s First Saturday Outing will float 6 miles from the Smith River [...]
(Wentworth, NC) – On Friday April 27th at 7:00 p.m. there will be a concert to benefit the Relay for Life of Rockingham County, held at the Rockingham Community College auditorium. The musical line up will include Hubert Lawson and the Bluegrass Country Boys, Lee Dishmon and Keith Sigmon, Joel Hodnett and Thick–N-Thin (Bryan ”Songbear” [...]
Dan River Basin Association, Clean Water for NC present “Gasland” April 17 The controversy over whether to allow “fracking” for natural gas in North Carolina has been a topic of much debate recently, and now Rockingham County residents have a chance to learn more about the extraction method, potential impacts in their communities, and opportunities [...]
New Program Pairs Pups and People for Outdoor Fitness One local nonprofit has found a way for dogs and their people to get out and explore the great outdoors. DRBA Dogs is the name of a new program offered by Dan River Basin Association (DRBA) for members who also are dog owners. “There seems to [...]
Reidsville NC: Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in North Carolina. Here are just a few of the facts: • In North Carolina, over 30% of children are either overweight or obese giving North Carolina the 5th worst ranking in the United States for childhood obesity among children ages 10-18. • Rockingham County’s childhood obesity [...]
FORMER WENTWORTH RESIDENT ELECTED TO HISTORICAL SOCIETY . CHAPEL HILL- At the recent meeting of the Historical Society of North Carolina, held at UNC-Charlotte, the organization unanimously elected Michael Perdue, formerly of Wentworth and now living in Chapel Hill, to its membership. The Historical Society of North Carolina, founded in 1945, is limited to seventy-five [...]
MHS STUDENTS EXPERIENCE VIRTUAL REALITY LIVE Sixteen students from Morehead High School’s Multimedia and Web Page Design and Business Advanced Studies classes visited the Duke immersive Virtual Environment (DiVE) lab at Duke University on Friday, March 2, 2012. This lab is a 6-sided CAVE-like virtual reality theater. All six surfaces – the four walls, the [...]
(Rockingham County, NC) – “Blue Hope” Ribbons for Justice, is a community support page on the popular social media site Facebook, that has been put up in honor of a Rockingham County husband and wife, Troy and LaDonna French, who lost their life in a reported home invasion, on February 4, 2012. The page is [...]
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