As covid-19 conditions in the county change, our local houses of worship are adjusting and reopening. Lexington Church of God is restarting their Wednesday evening Bible studies and soon their Kids Ministry Sunday and Wednesday. Red Bank Baptist is preparing to restart more events, Their interior sanctuary construction should be completed by October. St. James Lutheran held in-person worship August 23 for the 1st time since March and continues Sundays at 10:30 am.

THE DOLLAR GENERAL on Platt Springs Road will undergo a major remodeling at the end of September. This includes an expanded refrigerated and frozen foods section, a new health foods line, additional home décor, party goods and updated fixtures and layout. The whole process is slated to take several weeks with a grand reopening in October. This will be the 1st full remodeling since it opened in 2004.

WHETHER your child is going all-virtual this year or is on one of the alternating in-person schedules, District 1 offers meal service weekly. See the district website for full details. For all-virtual students in the Online Learning Academy, Carolina Springs Middle School is the main pickup location.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO Charlie Bruner, Rex Turner, Detra Pennington, Ronnie Crapps, Jr., Mason McCurdy, Lindsey Willis, Justin Cozart, Casey Hart, Alyssa Long, Robert Knight, Tony Anderson, H. O. Sharpe, Joel Tyson, Gerald Moore, Oakleigh Gates, Sharon Willis, Anna Lahrman, George Steele, Sr., Victoria Taylor, Lauren Barton, Tommy Arant, Billie Chewning, Tim Wallace, and Lizzie Wallace.