Family, friends and community members are hosting a fundraiser for Leslie Brown of Concord to help pay for the expensive medications needed after a recent liver and kidney transplant. The event will be Saturday, Aug. 11 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Christ Chapel student center on Highway 19. It will include live entertainment, games for children, a cake auction, big ticket item raffle, door prizes and barbecue plates.
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The state fire marshal's office is reporting the owner of the Lighthouse Restuarant has been charged with arson in connection with a devastating fire there last month.
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First, the Olympics; how could you live in this country and have dry eyes as Team U.S.A. entered the stadium during the Opening Ceremonies? Hundreds of the finest athletes in the history of the world marched in, smiling and laughing, wearing the colors of our country.
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Pike County commissioners welcomed new county manager Mike Phillips at the July 31 meeting as they thanked interim county attorneys Tom Morton and Rob Morton.
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Commissioners revisited the issue of moving the law library at the July 31 meeting. The law library was originally planned for the District Attorney’s office but the room’s three large windows made shelving for the books a problem.
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Even though West Central has transitioned into an Integrated Treatment Center, many of the facility’s detainees will still be available to help in the community as in years past.
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Magistrate judge candidates Marcia Callaway-Ingram and Loretta Rakestraw will be on the ballot for the runoff election after two provisional ballots tallied Friday afternoon narrowed Rakestraw's lead to just two votes over opponent Wayne Woods.
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By Sherri Ellington
While they will wait until new county manager Michael Phillips is on board, Pike County tax assessors plan to invite him and county commissioners to a workshop to hammer out a policy on taxation of property destroyed after the state-mandated Jan. 1 taxation date, and the time of year taxes are billed.
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