By Erin Smith The Bladen County Board of Commissioners approved a lease agreement for...
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Contributed Congratulations to Elizabethtown Primary School for their first place win in the Elementary...
RALEIGH: Communities across North Carolina from Sylva to Elizabeth City will get $127 million in...
RALEIGH – The N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles is giving people more opportunities this spring...
Enjoy this last day of winter, 2018. Weather forecast for today, should be much...
By Charlotte Smith The Bladen Disaster Recovery Team has heard the cries of local...
By Erin Smith The annual Bladen County Relay for Life Survivors Gala will take...
By Erin Smith An Elizabethtown man recently celebrated his 100th birthday in style as...
By Erin Smith The United Way of Bladen County held their second annual St...
By Erin Smith The Bladen County Board of Commissioners will meet Monday, March 18,...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – After a year of record-setting weather events – from tornadoes and...
Sometimes I spend some time reminiscing about ‘the way it was’ before TV and...
Bladen County Commissioners meet Monday evening, 6:30 p.m., regular session. They will also meet at Centerville...
West Bladen junior Tyre Boykin and East Bladen sophmore Javant McDowell have been named...
GOLDSBORO – Miriam Devane walloped the first home run of her career, but Emereau...
ST PAULS – East Bladen’s boys and girls both finished second to St. Pauls...
Unemployment rates (not seasonally adjusted) increased in all 100 of North Carolina’s counties in...
ELIZABETHTOWN – East Bladen racked up 21 runs in just two innings Friday en...
ELIZABETHTOWN – Sophmore Jordan Kinlaw struck out 12 batters Friday to lead East Bladen...
Hickory Grove Baptist Church is seeking revival! We want to grow in our relationship...
UNC-Asheville defeated Pembroke State University 62-56 in the NAIA District 26 basketball tourney. UNC-A...
Each week we present an historical place in Bladen County. This week we present...
TAR HEEL – Alyssa Strickland pitched a 5-hitter and struck out 13 batters to...
The 2019 District 9 umpires clinic will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. in...
ELIZABETHTOWN – A 5-run East Bladen seventh inning rally fell one run short as...
TAR HEEL – Coleman Tatum and Hunter Smith combined to pitch a 2-hitter and...
HOBBTON – Freshman Maya McDonald poured a ‘Hat Trick’ plus two of five goals...
Ten Republicans, one Democrat, and one candidate each from the Green Party and Libertarian...
The Bladen County Board of Education announced a special session on Tuesday, March 19,...
Four County Electric Membership Corporation is a local company who believes in giving back...
By Charlotte Smith The White Oak Dike in Kelly damage has created much debate...
Don’t test your luck this weekend during St. Patrick’s Day festivities. Law enforcement is...
RALEIGH – The following are highlights from this week at the N.C. Department of Transportation....
Federal government data confirms state’s status as No. 2 solar producer Duke Energy has...
Today is the final day for candidates for the NC 9th Congressional House District...
Contributed The Elizabethtown Rotary Club heard from more than one speaker on Wednesday. Two...
A vehicle that was parked on Gooden Street resulted in the arrest of the...
Contributed RALEIGH – The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ)...
Congratulations to the Bladenboro Middle School Battle of the Books team for winning the...
By Charlotte Smith In the past year Bladen County has suffered a lot, but...
By Erin Smith More than 78,000 pounds of ground turkey have been recalled by...
Photographers Urged to Not Take Prom Photos on Tracks During Prom Season RALEIGH – You...
By Erin Smith A fire was reported early on Thursday in the vicinity of...
DUBLIN – Local businessman and community supporter, Brian Campbell, has been appointed by the...
By Erin Smith A new initiative has been implemented in the court system in...
March 14-16 marks the 6-month anniversary of Hurricane Florence in North Carolina, and State...
Cliff Tyndall, a Wilmington resident who teaches at Bladen Community College, has a new...
The annual Kelly Spring Fest will be held on Saturday, April 27, 2019, at...
Prospective students, their families, and the residents of southeastern North Carolina will have the...
Wake County Superior Court Judge Sends Case to Three-Judge Panel RALEIGH, N.C. – On Wednesday, Wake...
RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced appointments to twenty one North Carolina boards and commissions....
This should be a perfect spring-like day, weather wise. Some sunshine expected with temps...
A parking violation led to one person being issued a citation for marijuana by...
RALEIGH — “Poisonings and deaths occur when prescription drugs end up in the wrong...
WILMINGTON, N.C.—The President released the budget proposal for fiscal year 2020 (FY20) which includes...
WASHINGTON, March 13, 2019 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency (RMA)...
On Saturday, March 9, 2019, Marianne Porter Absher, dedicated and loving wife and mother...
By Erin Smith The filing for the 9th Congressional District election has gotten underway...
The hog farm nuisance lawsuits were the subject of the evening at the Sampson...
A Job Fair is planned for Tuesday, April 16, 2019, from 10 a.m. until...
RALEIGH – The N.C. Judicial Branch has launched a new court date notification service allowing...
Columbus Charter School Kindergarten students will celebrate learning to read on Friday, March 15,...
The Bladen County Educational Foundation, a non-profit corporation organized and existing to provide financial...
Contributed We can all “LIVE UNITED” this weekend and support our United Way of...
For those who have been in the area for a few years…remember Kent Dunn? ...
The Bladen County Democratic Party will have its annual county convention on Saturday, March...
By Joy Warren Eddie Madden, project manager for the White Lake Multi-Use Path, provided...
By Erin Smith A long awaited Bojangles restaurant is taking another step towards becoming...
By Erin Smith A federal grand jury for the Eastern District of North Carolina...
NAKINA – Karli Priest pitched a 5-hitter and struck out six to lead Clarkton...
LUMBER BRIDGE – A familiar theme ensued again Monday in the Three Rivers Conference...
By Erin Smith The Bladenboro Town Board met on Monday to discuss a request...
By Bethany Stephens The Board of Education met on Monday night for their monthly...
[slideshow_deploy id=’157186′] The Bladen County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of 12 people...
An Elizabethtown man is recovering from a gunshot wound he received on Monday and...
April 15 is a month away, but the closer we get, the faster time...
By Marsha Burney The Bladen County Commissioners struggled to agree on two different issues...
The state’s seasonally adjusted January unemployment rate was 3.8 percent, increasing 0.1 of a...
By Erin Smith The filing period for the new 9th Congressional District election has...
StoryWalk, located at Singletary Lake State Park, is a book and walking path combined....
By Erin Smith Victims of Hurricane Florence received a gift of a free quilt...
The second annual Lumbee Film Festival takes place May 2019 at the UNC Pembroke...
By Erin Smith A four-wheeler crash on Marsh Road on Saturday evening sent two...
Contributed Bladen Radiology Ultrasound has been granted ACR Accreditation. Images were surveyed by the...
By Erin Smith A West Bladen High School student has died from injuries he...
By Charlotte Smith There was a large crowd out this weekend for mountain biking...
By Erin Smith The Bladen County Board of Commissioners will meet Monday, March 11,...
Contributed Why was Dan McCready not declared the winner? Why was a new election...
By Erin Smith The Bladenboro Town Board is scheduled to meet on Monday, March...
The Bladen Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisors will meet on Wednesday, March 27,...
Bladen County Commissioners meet today at 6:30 p.m. in their meeting room in the...
1665 – New York approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights. 1779 – US...
By Brenda Brown Social Security Public Affairs Specialist in Fayetteville, NC March is Women’s...
We are now on Daylight Savings Time, means we rise an hour early and...
By Erin Smith Photos by Gordon Kinlaw A piece of construction equipment that was...
1791 – John Stone of Concord, Massachusetts, patents a pile driver. 1849 – Abraham...
Sadie Minter retired from the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office. Ms. Minter was the first...
On Friday, a jury awarded 10 plaintiffs a total of $420,000 in compensatory and...