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The Bladen County Board of Commissioners appointed the following persons to positions at the Bladen County sanitary landfill: Russell L. Priest, heavy equipment operator, Craven Hair, landfill attendant, and William Clifton Kelly, truck driver.
Cynthia McClure was appointed Assistant Vice President at the Bank of Elizabethtown.
There was a break in at Bladen Ace Hardware in Elizabethtown. The thieves stole a quantity of shotguns and rifles.