![]() “We’ve been doing the ribbon cutting hop here it seems like, and this is just another testimony to the progress that Richmond County and the City of Rockingham is making,” she said. The retail business is offering a lot for consumers these days, and we’re proud of you investing in the community.”Ĭhamber President Emily Tucker said she could tell by the turnout Monday that customers will be very excited about the investment Sweatt and his crew have made in downtown Rockingham. We’ve opened six new properties downtown in the last six months or this year, and that’s very, very exciting. “I had enough hair to cut when I started here. “I’ve been a downtown Rockingham business (owner) for 41 years,” Mayor and Helm’s Jewelers owner Steve Morris said to Sweatt. The new business owner said while working at Merle Norman that as soon as an opportunity came up for him to branch out, he would take it, and county and city officials, Richmond County Chamber of Commerce members and other business owners are glad he did. Four months later, he made the move back to Richmond Plaza. He started at Merle Norman right out of barber school, but left soon after to Hamlet, where he cut hair at Fred’s City Barbershop. Sweatt, 22, attended the Alamance Barber Institute in Burlington and has been cutting professionally for two years. ROCKINGHAM - Holding a pair of scissors much larger than the ones he’s used to, barber Daniel Sweatt cut the ceremonial red ribbon Monday afternoon outside his new shop, Headlines Studio, at 234 East Franklin Street.
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