Bennett News

On the fifth floor of the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, Bennett's glass walls overlook the "Terror of the South" exhibit, with its 40-foot Acrocanthosaurus, a 110-million-year-old fossil, and flying pterosaurs circling ominously above.

That's because School House, which moved its manufacturing from Sri Lanka to North Carolina earlier this year, has contracted with Mitt's Nitts, the last known apparel manufacturer in Durham, to make items for its fall 2012 line.

Rat Pack Tribute Opens Series at Cole Celebrating 50 years of The Rat Pack, Sandy Hackett's Rat Pack Show has been hailed as the next best thing to seeing the group themselves.

Celebrating 50 years of The Rat Pack, Sandy Hackett's "Rat Pack Show" has been hailed as the next best thing to seeing the group themselves.

Members of the Historical Society will meet Friday at Rockingham City Hall at 7 p.m. to hear the history of Ellerbe Telephone Company from the company president, Dan Bennett.