This week:

• Early voting ends Saturday, primary election is Tuesday

• Microsoft will develop a data center on the Person County Mega Park property

• The Roxboro Police Department reported the 2025 rate was the city’s lowest in more than two decades

• The Roxboro Woman’s Club’s Red Stocking Revue on the Kirby Theater stage tonight and tomorrow

• Julian Combs takes fourth in the 5A 150-pound weight class at the state championships

• Basketball playoffs update – Roxboro Community School girls onto the third round Saturday

• Baseball and softball starting up

This week

• Settlement reached in federal lawsuit against sheriff and former detention officers

• Democratic Party nominates Lauren Wilkerson Horak to be Register of Deeds

• Person County Board of Commissioners to hold its annual budget retreat Tuesday

• Person High School and Roxboro Community School basketball are back in action after a weather-induced break

• Youth football signups extended into the spring

This week:

• Winter storm coming this weekend

• Board of Commissioners holds off on EDC changes

• Smithsonian exhibit coming to the Person County Museum of History

• Dunn, Brooks take on GOP forum

• HS basketball updates

• Person wrestling finishes second in conference, looking to postseason

This week:

• Candidate filing to end Friday

• Ellixson takes plea deal

• Federal lawsuit against sheriff, detention officers to continue

• Arrest made in May death of child

• Person boys’ basketball hands Easter Alamance first loss, beats Halifax

• Person girls split against Halifax, Eastern Alamance

• RCS boys’ basketball picks up first win, girls win over Raleigh Charter

• Person wrestling goes 3-2 at Alleghany

This week:

• Roxboro Christmas Parade Saturday

• Petty, city council sworn in Tuesday

• A candidate filing update

• Features on Police Management Assistant Lori Davis’ retirement from the Roxboro police department and the Person High School marching band

• Person boys’ basketball with wins over Orange and Halifax

• Person girls’ drop games against Orange and Halifax

This week:

• Person County Board of Commissioners make Sherry Wilborn first-ever woman elevated to board leadership

• Roxboro’s first Black mayor, Cynthia Petty, and the new city council will be sworn in Tuesday

• Candidate filing has begun for the 2026 election

• Winter sports are starting up

• Person boys’ basketball with wins over Orange and Webb

• Person girls’ basketball with wins over Webb and Riverside

• Roxboro Community School’s girls’ basketball with a 4-1 start

This week:

• Attorneys representing Roger Wilkerson have filed a motion seeking a change of venue in the first-degree murder trial over the 2022 death of Nancy Horton
• A trial date has been set for former-commissioner Tracy Ellixson's felony charges
• The Person County Board of Commissioners is seeking prevention measures against large-scale parties
• Person football end the regular season with a loss to Williams, heads to J.F. Webb for the first round of the state playoffs Friday
• Peyton Hogan has been named All-Region 3 by the North Carolina Volleyball Coaches Association

This week: 

• North Carolina Utilities Commission issues certificate for second gas facility at Hyco Lake

• Joint County Commissioners, City Council, Economic Development Commission meeting next Thursday

• Dispute between the state and local Republican Party

• Two people have been charged in relation to the postgame fight after the Person-Cummings football game

• Rockets fall to Southern Alamance on homecoming

• Person volleyball moves on to the third round of the state playoffs with a win over CB Aycock

• RCS drops in the second round of the playoffs to Gates County

• Playoff updates from RCS golf, XC

This week:

• Dr. Rodney Peterson named state Superintendent of the Year
• Person County Board of Elections finalizes city election results, Cynthia Petty becomes first elected Black mayor
• Courtney Jordan's legal woes continue
• Person football wins at Cummings, postgame altercation results in law enforcement action
• Person volleyball wins Mid-Carolina conference
• RCS wins Diamond 9 conference
• County Recreation, Arts and Parks is trying to bring youth football back

This week:

• The City of Roxboro's municipal election is Tuesday
• Alexis Vander Poppen is Roxboro's 2026 Distinguished Young Woman
• Commissioners to hear solar ordinance text amendment Monday
• Personality Festival is this weekend
• Roxboro woman killed Friday
• Person wins the second Battle of Volleytown Friday, loses to Cedar Ridge in a potential playoff matchup preview
• RCS wins the JV Battle of Volleytown
• Person football heads to Graham Friday
• RCS tennis picks up a win over Person, looks to the playoffs