On this week’s Chatham County Roundup, Publisher and Editor of the Chatham News + Record Bill Horner joins 97.9 The Hill’s Brighton McConnell. Horner shares an upcoming piece detailing the challenges of shifting face mask recommendations. Plus: an upcoming, exclusive guest piece on the tension and struggles in Ukraine as the country faces possible invasion from Russia.
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