05/08/2024
Bladen County Headlines... 35 Years Ago
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The Clarkton Town Board appointed a committee to establish qualifications for selecting an engineering firm for phase 2 of the town’s 201 Sewer Upgrading Project. The committee consisted of Mayor Dan Meshaw, town commissioners Linda Revels and Lawrence McDougald.

Bladen County’s unemployment rate in April 1985 was 9.9%.

Bladen tobacco grower Gary Pait filed a law suit against W.R. Grace & Co. stating his tobacco crop was damaged from a chemical in Grace’s fertilizer.

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