The Pilgrim’s Sanford Agriculture Market features an 8,300-square-foot covered pavilion for vendors and other attractions (like live music). Another 4,000 square feet houses office space, meeting ...

Want to go? Of course you do! The free Local News Day event will be held from 1-3 p.m. on April 9 at the McSwain Center in Sanford. The Rant is (from left) Jonathan Owens, Gordon Anderson ...

By Gordon Anderson | gordon@rantnc.com Ohio-based commercial developer CASTO held a small ceremony Wednesday to mark the long-awaited, official start of revitalizations to the Riverbirch Corner ...

By Gordon Anderson | gordon@rantnc.com If you were picking a single word to describe the operations at Spring Lane Cinemas, you could do a lot worse than “curation.” General Manager ...

Formerly San Lee FC, city’s new semi-pro team has better facilities and a team hungry to play soccer at a higher level It was a day designed to not only celebrate the return of semi-professional ...

A Lee County prosecutor voluntarily dismissed murder charges against a local man on Monday, according to court records. Deshon Smith, 19, turned himself in to Sanford police on March 2 after a ...

Embezzlement charges against a former administrator of a local charter school brought in 2024 were dismissed by a judge Tuesday after the school in question apparently stopped cooperating with the ...

The Sanford Spinners’ sixth season will begin this summer in a new home and under new leadership. The Spinners announced in early March that Tom Andor has been named the team’s general manager, and ...

Democrat Tashera Nichols McDuffie has withdrawn her name from the race for North Carolina House District 51. McDuffie, of Cameron, filed paperwork with the Moore County Board of Elections on March 6 ...

A group of citizens who have been speaking for months against a rumored proposal to place a data center in Lee County – and a natural gas mining operation to power it – will push the issue again ...