Stories from Friday, August 9, 2019

Fire crews from Lewisburg and Chapel Hill responded to a structure fire just off the square in Lewisburg. Smoke began appearing from the back of the building, at 208 2nd Ave. S. next to the A-Team Machine building, at approximately 9:30 a.m. on Friday morning...

The Forrest Middle School Rockets, coming off a 7-2 season, opened up the new campaign in style Thursday night at the Murrey E. Holton Memorial Field in Chapel Hill, blanking the Page Middle School Panthers 24-0. “I’m very pleased, earlier in the year Liberty left our conference and Page had this week open and I’m grateful for them playing us,” FMS coach Tony Johnson said. “These guys rose to the occasion, Page is a bigger school than us and we have been preaching that for a couple weeks and our guys really stepped it up tonight and did a fantastic job, so I am really proud of them.”