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Story by Uptown Roxboro Group and Person County Tourism Development Thursday - December 5, 2019 - 5PM-8PM Holiday cheer is in the air when the Jingle on Main festivities begin! This community wide gathering occurs the first Thursday in December and includes free activities for families with children of all ages! Organized by Uptown Roxboro Group, in collaboration with Piedmont ...

Distinguished Young Women – Chapter 3 By Norwood Walker (Click here to read first story in this series: Junior Miss to Distinguished Young Women) When the 25 participants in this year’s Roxboro’s Distinguished Young Women’s Program take the stage at the Kirby on Saturday, September 21, 2019, they will have much in common with previous participants. For the young women ...

By Norwood Walker When you enter The Old Country Club Steakhouse you immediately notice many portraits of young women lining the walls, in the main left dining room there are more of the same. All of these young women share the title of Roxboro’s Junior Miss, Young Woman of the Year, or Distinguished Young Women, which are really all the ...

New Location for PCTDA Office and New Visitor Center for the Area By Norwood Walker Person County is not just the home of many Distinguished Young Women (Click here and here previous stories) but also the home of distinguished women period. Two of these have done more for Person County than many people realize. Back Story Forming a Tourism Development ...

Distinguished Young Women The Story Continues By Norwood Walker (Click here to read first story in this series: Junior Miss to Distinguished Young Women) Thomas Wolfe is credited with the quote “You can’t go home again.” Many young people, male and female’ have taken that quote to heart over the years and never fully returned to the area of their ...

The 2019 Volume 3 issue of Hyco Lake Magazine was due to arrive any day and it just so happened that I noticed Russell's Ltd was closed for more than a week. This was concerning because I had heard NOTHING! So, big deal, another business when under... But we had just written a story about this business that had been ...

Mayor Merilyn Newell is Proud of How Far Roxboro Has Come By Olivia Townsend, RCS Freshman Photo by Pamela Rodgers “I believe that the true jewels of Roxboro are the people and the way this community connects together” Mayor Merilyn Newell proudly says of the city she has led since 2011. Mayor Newell’s love of Roxboro comes from her childhood. ...

A Blend of Old, New, Southern, Midwestern, and Everything in Between Story by Phyliss Boatwright Photos by Mackenzie Clayton, RCS Sophomore Minnesota native Victoria O’Duffy had never been to North Carolina until 2016, when she stepped off a plane at Raleigh-Durham International Airport to move into what is now the Manor on Main Bed and Breakfast on Roxboro’s Main Street. ...

Success, Style, and Inspiration By Jessica Kradel, Piedmont Community College Student Change can be difficult, but it can also lead to unexpected blessings. If anyone understands this, it’s 4Lynn’s owner Sharon Kendrick, whose story is a perfect example of how a leap of faith can pay off. When I first walked into 4Lynn’s Boutique on North Madison Boulevard, I was ...

By Paul Liggitt The Bighorn Sheep photo by Jwanamaker - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28291925 I am a relative newcomer to NC, only having been here 30 years. My family chose the area because we had opportunities here that we did not have elsewhere, and have not regretted our move. When we arrived we got the usual questions like, “Are ...