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Anson JROTC shines

WADESBORO – The Anson High School JROTC program is quietly making a meaningful impact on both its students and the wider community, emphasizing leadership, service, and personal growth while meeting cadets where they are.

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Planting for winter

RICHMOND COUNTY — Fight the winter gloomies with bold and showy landscapes! Whether it is dormant trees and grasses, the fallen leaves of greener days, or bare spots where tender perennials once grew, many of our winter landscapes lack color and excitement. To add interest to your plantings, consider plants with unique winter characteristics such as bright colors, interesting textures and forms, evergreen foliage, persistent berries and seedheads. And definitely don’t forget to add art! Garden art adds personality and structure while enhancing surrounding plants.

January: More than just the beginning of the new year

January is more than just a month of frigid temperatures and potential snow days. A month named after the Roman god Janus, January literally represents new beginnings and is therefore a fitting name for the month that kicks off every new year.

Keeping a streak alive

ANSON COUNTY — Dick Coffee attended 781 consecutive University of Alabama football games. Meg Roh surfed through illness, storms and nightfall to maintain a seven-year daily surfing streak. Jon Sutherland ran at least 1 mile every day for over 52 years.

10 Health resolutions doctors encourage you to make today

The New Year represents a fresh start and is the perfect time to invest in your health. However, you may be unsure what resolutions will have the biggest impact. Doctors say that the easy, tangible actions you take are some of the most important.

Pinning Ceremony celebrates nursing grads

South Piedmont Community College proudly celebrated its nursing graduates during a Nursing Pinning Ceremony held on Dec.12 at 4 p.m. in Building A at the Old Charlotte Highway Campus. The pinning ceremony is a long-standing nursing tradition that symbolizes the student’s transition from the classroom to the profession and honors their commitment to compassionate, patient-centered care.

Never too early for managing internal parasites

RICHMOND COUNTY — Although we are just now beginning the winter season, small ruminant owners should still be regularly checking their animals for internal parasites, especially if they have a lambing or kidding season that kicks off in early spring.

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