The ninth Carolina Indie Fest will come to Hugger Mugger Brewing in downtown Sanford on September 25 and 26, bringing 10 acts from a variety of genres to the stage over two days. The free music ...

The Sanford-Lee County Planning Board’s Technical Review Committee will look at plans for Longhorn Steakhouse and Olive Garden restaurants at the new Adams Village shopping center on N.C.

The City of Sanford’s annual Christmas Parade — which for years has followed a nightime route along Wicker, Steele and Carthage streets — will take a new path this December, the city ...

From Lee County Schools Last year, Lee County Schools had five “low performing” schools, according to the School Performance Grades issued by the North Carolina Department of Public ...

Officials met privately with MedEx for EMS services after county declared negotiations over; company submitted another proposal days later, The Rant learned By Gordon Anderson and Richard Sullins ...

By Bryson Lyons | brysonlyonsmedia@gmail.com Music is a language that ties us all together, and it’s always been easy to find speakers of that language in Sanford. In terms of local live ...

The North Carolina State Board of Elections adopted an early voting plan for Lee County on Thursday, going with a plan that includes one Sunday. Lee was one of 12 counties in North Carolina whose ...

Sanford PD By Gordon Anderson | gordon@rantnc.com Sanford police on Tuesday charged two people – one a former Southern Lee High School employee and ...

A Lee County sheriff’s deputy wrote that District Court Judge Brian Lewis was “waving” a firearm while demonstrating its laser sight during an open court session in July, with the laser scanning ...

Carl Bryan, a local educator and author, will sign copies of his new book “Softball Dad” on Saturday at MonkeyKat books in Sanford. “Softball Dad” is a nonfiction story about Bryan’s experiences with ...

A clever marketing ploy? A trail left by a golden snail or a leprechaun leading to a pot of gold? A mistake? Over the weekend a thin yellow line appeared in the southbound lane of U.S. 1 and then U.S.