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Area sports briefs: Hipps ends college career in MEAC final (The Salisbury Post)
From staff reports South Carolina State's Sophilia Hipps (North Rowan) ended her college basketball career with a loss to Hampton in the MEAC tourname ...What’s On Tap for March 14 (Pocono Record) ADULT LEAGUE SOFTBALL Anyone interested in joining an adult softball league should contact Raymond at 570-894-1943. Games will be played on Sundays. MONROE COUNTY CHURCH SOFTBALL The Monroe County Church Softball League is looking for teams that may be interested in joining the league.
• Some say 'Old Hickory' deserves more recognition in Salisbury (The Salisbury Post) Tomorrow, March 15, would have been Andrew Jackson's 243rd birthday. His time in Salisbury seems like yesterday. Read the biographies, historical notes and newspaper recollections of Andrew Jackson's time in Salisbury, and you come away with the not ...
Police Blotter 3/11/10 (The Citizens' Voice) WILKES-BARRE - Someone broke into a Scott Street home in Wilkes-Barre, removed a can of pink paint and wrote a racial epithet on her front porch banister, according to a report Tuesday at 12:34 p.m.
NC Beautiful Announces Recipients of The Duke Energy Foundation Windows of Opportunity Grants (dBusinessNews.com) RALEIGH – NC Beautiful has announced the winners of the 2010 Windows of Opportunity (WOO) Grants from The Duke Energy Foundation. Sixteen schools were awarded WOO Grants, representing a total of over $15,000 in educational grants.
Affected beneficiaries (Winston-Salem Journal) Nearly 3,800 Medicare beneficiaries in the Triad and Northwest North Carolina are affected by the suspension of Fox Insurance Co.
Regional Briefs: 2 die in car wreck after car goes out-of-control (Winston-Salem Journal) Two men died when their car ran off the road and into a ravine early yesterday, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol, WGHP/FOX8 reported.
Page recommends June 11 as makeup day (The Hendersonville Times-News) By Jennifer Heaslip Times-News Staff Writer During a meeting Monday, Superintendent Stephen Page will recommend the Henderson County School Board extend the school year and use June 11 to make up the day of classes missed Wednesday.
Dems rev up to take on Burr (The News & Observer) The Democratic Senate candidates offer party leaders their best campaign pitches on why they are equipped to take on Republican Sen. Richard Burr .
People on the Move - March 7, 2010 (The Scranton Times-Tribune) Business Services for Real Estate John Cognetti of Scranton has been elected to serve a second term as chairman of the board of directors of BSRE, the for-profit subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors. Mr. Cognetti is president of Hinerfe