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Burke County hosts several weddings for happy couples at courthouse

BURKE COUNTY, N.C. — The Burke County Registrar of Deeds hosted more than a dozen weddings Thursday at the courthouse.

“Definitely been a long winter,” Minister J.R. Richards told Channel 9. “Year and a half, that’s for sure that it has felt like. Now people can breathe a little easier there a sigh of relief in the air.”

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