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HAMLET — More than 100 new jobs will be available in Richmond County within the next seven months, local and state leaders announced Tuesday.
RSI Home Products, Inc. will be constructing a manufacturing and distribution plant in the Richmond County Industrial Park, hiring 175 employees when the plant is operational, according to statements from Gov. Pat McCrory’s office and the Richmond County Office of Development.
County officials say the California-based company will also be investing $18.3 million by its scheduled plant opening in September.
Neither of Rowan’s current members of the U.S. House support President Barack Obama’s recently introduced plan to close Guantanamo Bay Prison.
Obama this week announced plans to close Guantanamo Bay — a prison for suspected war criminals in Cuba — by the time he leaves office. His plan faces stiff opposition from Congress, with two of Rowan’s U.S. House members among the pack of skeptical politicians.
Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5, criticized the plan as “bringing dangerous terrorists to America in a statement following Obama’s announcement this week.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed to "once and for all" close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer remaining detainees to a facility in the U.S., though his plan does not specify where.
Obama said that despite significant political hurdles and congressional opposition he is making one last effort to shutter the facility.
ROCKINGHAM — Richmond County’s current congressman and its prospective future voice in Washington have sharply criticized President Barack Obama’s push to close the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison for enemy combatants and terrorism suspects.
Reps. Richard Hudson, R-Concord, and Robert Pittenger, R-Charlotte, both panned the plan to close Gitmo and move many detainees to the United States, including prisons in South Carolina, Kansas and Colorado along with a proposed $475 million secure facility for dangerous detainees.
U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-8, on Wednesday visited Gray Stone Day School in Misenheimer. Hudson said the school serve the unique needs of students and gives families more choice in education.
“It illustrates the great things that can be done when we restore local control and create an education system where every child can succeed,” he said.
At the school, Hudson spoke with students, teachers and administrators about ideas to expand opportunity, promote innovation and provide quality education to students in the community.