LAURINBURG —It was a night of celebration Thursday at Cypress Bend Winery.

LAURINBURG — “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst.”

The numbers are in and Jersey Mike’s Laurinburg and Pembroke stores garnered $24,053 for the Scotland Memorial Fund on Jersey Mike’s Day, held on March 30. Ron Gibson, the Laurinburg store’s owner, said the Laurinburg store ranked number 22 out of 2,500 stores across the nation in sales. Shown are Pembroke store owner, Teressa Radford, left, Gibson, Laurinburg store manager Renaughta Ormsby, and Misty McMillan, executive director of the Scotland Memorial Foundation.

LAURINBURG — Featuring a woodworker and a seamstress for May, the Arts Council of Scotland County (ACSC) is proceeding with its Artist of the Month series.

PEMBROKE — Two Scotland students were among the recipients of scholarships honored during the Lumbee River EMC’s 2024 Scholarship Awards Luncheon on Thursday.

RALEIGH — The North Carolina General Assembly Senate Judiciary Committee voted this week mandating North Carolina sheriffs to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, by requiring them to comply with requests by federal agents interested in picking up jail inmates believed to be in the country illegally.

HAMLET — Cynthia Lassiter of Rockingham has been working in mental health services for 26 years, and her passion for helping people has not diminished one bit since she started all those years ago.