HENDERSON — The air Friday morning for Vance County High’s 2023 Commencement Exercise was both unseasonably cool, and profoundly optimistic.

HENDERSON — Jeffrey Rogers, 65, of Hawkins Drive, passed away on May 18, 2023 at M…

ROANOKE RAPIDS — Lillian Daeke Hamlin, 93, of Lawrenceville, Virginia and Roanoke …

RALEIGH — Harriet Young Cooper, 89, of New York City and Princeton, died May 19, 2…

HENDERSON — Bealls Incorporated, which owns Burkes Outlet, has announced that the Burkes Outlet at 320 North Cooper Drive has been rebranded as Bealls. They’ll be doing the same with each of the 35 other Burkes Outlets in North Carolina.