A homegrown business on Lake Gaston catering to the burgeoning sport of wakesurfing has been recognized by a national magazine as one of the top schools in the country.
Taylor Beaver of Roanoke Rapids won the outlaw division championship in the Canadian Wake Surf Nationals at Lake Calabogie in the province of Ontario over the weekend.
Jay Baker whose term as governor's appointee on the Halifax Community College Board of Trustees expired this year, was honored last week while Ruel Solomon was sworn in to finish out the term of his late wife.