Elizabethtown, NC

Bladenboro Middle’s Addison Wilcox and Allison Hickman and Tar Heel Middle’s Gracey Edwards will travel to Viera, Florida to compete in the USSSA World Series Sunday as members of the Coastal Crush Elite team that is based in Loris, South Carolina. Wilcox, Hickman and Edwards were all chosen...

ELIZABETHTOWN — On June 19, 1865, enslaved African-Americans in Texas were told they were free. African Americans in the United States began and continue to celebrate the day, which is now a federal holiday. The day was first recognized as a federal holiday in June 2021, when President Joe...

WHITEVILLE – Luke Bryant knocked in the winning run in the bottom of the 7th inning, and Ashton Davis struck out 16 batters as Bladen County shutout Whiteville 1-0 Saturday in the opening round of the Dixie Youth Baseball District 2 Majors Tournament. Bladen County receives a bye for...

LUMBERTON — The graduation of 22 residents across the Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine and Internal Medicine residency programs was celebrated June 17 by UNC Health Southeastern. These residents marked the fifth graduating class of the health system’s medical education program. Audrea Caesar, UNC Healthcare System’s Inaugural chief Diversity,...

ELIZABETHTOWN — West Robeson scored five runs in the fifth inning in beating Elizabethtown 7-3 on Saturday afternoon in the opening round of the Dixie Youth Baseball District 9 Majors tournament played at Leinwand Park. The teams had played to a 2-all tie through four innings before West Robeson...

LUMBERTON — Infection Control Manager Sherry Edwards was named the 2021 winner of the John D. Drake Distinguished Service Award and Pharmacy Director Eric Locklear was named the 2021 winner of the W. Reid Caldwell Jr., Distinguished Leadership Award during UNC Health Southeastern’s annual service awards banquet held June 16 in the medical center’s cafeteria.

ELIZABETHTOWN — The East Bladen High to Louisburg College pipeline, which was the path taken by Farrell and Larrell Murchison after their high school football careers, was in play again on Thursday as quarterback-fullback-linebacker Javius Brooks signed a letter of intent to play for the Hurricanes in the fall.

Boys and Girls Homes of N.C. On Saturday, June 11, the NAACP Columbus County Branch held a long-awaited appreciation banquet for Whiteville native Amon Eugene McKenzie in the fellowship hall of the Leamon Rogers Memorial Chapel on the campus of Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina. “We had planned...

Friends of the Rube McCray Memorial Library at Lake Waccamaw held a reception in honor of 2022 scholarship recipient Jennifer Hunt, 18, of Delco. Hunt graduated from East Columbus Jr./Sr. High School, where she was a member of Beta Club and National Honor Society; she is also a North Carolina Academic Scholar.

LUMBERTON — A Prospect Elementary English educator says equipping students to do their best and be their best is his mission. Jamie Burney is in his fifth year of teaching at the school. He teaches eighth-grade English. However, during his 21 years of employment in the Public Schools of...

LAKE WACCAMAW, N.C. (WECT) - Lake Waccamaw has issued a boil water advisory due to a leaking water main near 700 Canal Cove Road. The advisory is issued for customers from 700 Canal Cove Road continuing to the dam at Waccamaw Shores Road and includes the Wooded Acres subdivision. “The...

ST. PAULS — Kemarion Baldwin’s 2021-22 school year began last fall with a record-setting football season at St. Pauls. But that was just the start. Baldwin was a key contributor on successful basketball and baseball teams, while also participating in the state championships in track and field. After...

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ELIZABETHTOWN – Damian Maynor and Colt Lewis teamed up to pitch Elizabethtown past Fairmont 7-4 Saturday in the opening round of the Dixie Youth Baseball District 9 AAA (Minors) Tournament. Elizabethtown will battle West Robeson Sunday at 6 p.m. in a winners bracket game. West Robeson defeated Red Springs...

LUMBERTON — The Carolina Civic Center Historic Theater in downtown Lumberton will hold its Summer Theater Boot Camp July 11- 16. The six-day artistic intensive program, ending with a culminating revue for friends and family, will allow campers ages 8-16 to develop essential acting skills, participate in theater games and exercises, create and act out scenes through improvisation, dance/movement, music instruction, and audition prep/headshots, among other skills.

— Service schedule: Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Sunday Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Sunday Evening Service 7 p.m.; Wednesday Evening Service 7 p.m. ”And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”. John 4:24. “God...

Evergreen, NC: On June 22, 2022, a Columbus County Sheriff’s Office Deputy was on routine patrol in the Evergreen community of Columbus County. The deputy completed a vehicle traffic stop in the 10,000 block of Haynes Lennon Highway, Evergreen. During the course of the vehicle stop, the 21-year-old, male driver of the vehicle was seriously injured from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The driver was transported to Columbus Regional Hospital for medical treatment.

Jeld-Wen, a North Carolina company, makes windows and doors and has two plants in Vermont -- North Springfield and Ludlow. Lawmakers and state officials from around the region are reacting to Friday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for abortion. Will...

WHITEVILLE, NC (WWAY) — On April 18th the Duplin County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a missing person from the Rose Hill area of Duplin County. Amanda Little was last seen near her home by her neighbors, and all known associates claim no recent contact with Little.

As a habit, I regularly check in with the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center to see what’s on the horizon.