RALEIGH, N.C. – In 2021, county boards of elections across North Carolina will conduct several important and required processes designed to keep the state’s voter rolls…
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Contributed WASHINGTON – Congressman David Rouzer (NC-07) issued the following statement after today’s vote in the House of Representatives on impeaching President Trump: “The impeachment of…
Contributed Raleigh, NC – Governor Roy Cooper has mobilized approximately 550 North Carolina National Guardsmen to assist with upcoming security needs in Washington, DC and…
RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced new appointments to boards and commissions across North Carolina. Gov. Cooper has appointed the following individual to the North Carolina…
by Blake Proctor Assembling telephonically once more due to an increase in the incidence of the Xi Jinpingfluenza in the county, the January 12th meeting…
By Joy Warren During the December 29, 2020 adjourned meeting, the White Lake Board of Commissioners voted to offer the Town Administrator position to Sean…
by Blake Proctor With Councilmembers Lillian Graham and Rhonda Hall excused absent, the January 11th , 2021, meeting of the East Arcadia Town Council got…
“Today I submitted my resignation to the President and Acting Attorney General, effective January 20. For a guy whose childhood dream job as an FBI…
The Bladenboro Board of Commissioners are scheduled to conduct its regularly scheduled monthly meeting on Monday, Jan. 11 at Town Hall on Ivy Street. The…
In accordance with the N.C. Governor’s Executive Order, the January 12 Town of White Lake Board of Commissioners meeting will be conducted virtually and will…
By Blake Proctor Mayor Darryl Dowless called the January 7th meeting of the Dublin Board of Commissioners to order at 6pm to a virtually empty…
Bladen County Commissioner and local Preacher Cameron McGill made it back safe from Washington D.C. Yesterday he spent the afternoon with Tony Perkins from the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement on Congress’ certification of the Electoral College results for the 2020 presidential…
WASHINGTON – Congressman David Rouzer (NC-07) and 36 of his Republican colleagues today issued the following statement in advance of the joint session of Congress at 1…
by Blake Proctor With Councilmember Angie Hall excused absent, Mayor Sam Allen called the January 5th meeting to order at 6pm; he provided the invocation,…
Chris Williams, Bladen County Board of Elections Director, announced today the Bladen County Board of Elections will be having their monthly meeting next week virtually.…
By Joy Warren The Town of Elizabethtown Town Council met via online Zoom Monday evening for their regular monthly meeting. Town Manager Eddie Madden updated…
By Blake Proctor With County Commissioners Dr. Ophelia Munn-Goins and Michael Cogdell attending telephonically, and all other Commissioners present, Chairman Charles Ray Peterson gaveled the…
Dear Friend, Confidence in a presidential election has never been lower, with 39 percent of the country in a recent Reuters poll believing this election…
WASHINGTON – Congressman David Rouzer (NC-07) today issued the following statement: “I will be among those objecting to the Electoral College votes of several states January 6th. When…
By Blake Proctor The Bladenboro Board of Commissioners, down a member until Lisa Levy gets sworn in next month to fill Rodney Hester’s seat, met…
RALEIGH, N.C. – The State Board of Elections on Friday voted unanimously to certify results in the NC Supreme Court Chief Justice contest, with Republican Paul…
The Bladen County Board of Commissioners are scheduled to conduct their final meeting of the year Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the Superior Courtroom of…
By Blake Proctor The Bladenboro Commission met at 6pm Monday the 14th when Mayor Rufus Duckworth gaveled the meeting to order. Commissioner Greg Sykes gave…
The State Board of Elections will hold a remote meeting beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, December 18, 2020. Meeting materials will be posted on a rolling basis on…
By Blake Proctor Mayor Perry Blanks called the December 14th meeting of East Arcadia’s Town Council to order at 7:07pm, with all Board members but…
By Blake Proctor This year’s election season has been hanging around longer than the Xi Jing Pingfluenza, and it’s been making most of us almost…
By Joy Warren During Tuesday evening’s Zoom White Lake Town Council meeting, the Commissioners were given a follow-up to questions about stormwater and two drainage…
By Blake Proctor Due to an uptick in cases of the Wuhanfluenza in Bladen County, the Board of Elections telephonically on Tuesday, December 8th for…
by Blake Proctor The first Monday in December is a special day for County Commissioners only every even-numbered year, when the winners of the previous…
By Joy Warren Elizabethtown Town Council met Monday evening via an online Zoom meeting. Each year, the Town Manager with the assistance of Departmental staff…
Candidate for Bladen County Commissioner, David Gooden filed a protest with the Bladen County Board of Elections this morning at 10 a.m. The protest is…
Contributed RALEIGH – On Wednesday night, Democrat Cheri Beasley requested a hand-to-eye recount in a random sample of precincts in the NC Supreme Court Chief…
By Blake Proctor Commission Chairman Ray Britt gaveled the Bladen County Board of Commissioners to order in special called session at 4pm Thursday the 3rd…
The State Board of Elections will hold a remote meeting beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, December 18, 2020. Meeting materials will be posted on…
Contributed RALEIGH — All 100 North Carolina counties have completed the statewide recount in the North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice contest. After the machine…
The Bladen County Board of Commissioners have called a special meeting for Thursday at 4 p.m. to consider a school construction grant application. The meeting…
By Blake Proctor With Councilmember Angeline Hall excused absent, Mayor Sam Allen called the meeting to order at 6pm. The Mayor led the Pledge of…
Photo above was taken of Mr. Rodney Hester with his family at a Bladen County Commissioners’ meeting in December 2018. There is an empty seat…
By Blake Proctor With Chairman Ray Britt excused absent, Vice Chairman David Gooden gaveled the November 23rd Commission meeting to order at 6:30pm. Reverend Cameron…
Contributed Horace Munn, President of the Bladen County Improvement Association (PAC) sent the following text message to Minnie Price at 5:04 a.m. on Sunday, November…
Contributed by Christopher Williams with Bladen County Board of Elections Bladen County held a preliminary consideration meeting Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 9:00 am to…
by Blake Proctor The 2020 election’s ballot recount was a major eye-opener for this retired long-term city manager: What this reporter had imagined was going…
The Bladen County Board of Commissioners are scheduled to meet Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the Superior Courtroom of the Courthouse in Elizabethtown. Due to…
RALEIGH, N.C. – As a statewide recount for a North Carolina Supreme Court contest begins in North Carolina, all 100 county boards of elections recently completed…
State to work with key counties to bring numbers down To read more and see Frequently Asked Questions, visit the alert page. RALEIGH: Governor…
Contributed Raleigh – Following counting updates the race for Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, NCDP Chair Wayne Goodwin released the following statement: …
Contributed Raleigh – In the race for Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Chief Justice Cheri Beasley currently trails by 366 votes out…
by Charlotte Smith Update: Christopher L. Williams, Director Bladen County Board of Elections announced Monday evening, “Bladen County will be conducting a recount for the…
By Blake Proctor Canvass: “Aggregating or confirming every valid ballot cast and counted – absentee, early voting, Election Day, provisional, challenged, and uniformed and overseas…
Christopher L. Williams, Director of Bladen County Board of Elections released unofficial election results this afternoon. View the release by clicking on the following link:…
Contributed RALEIGH, N.C. — The State Board of Elections is releasing the following facts about the post-election vote-counting process in North Carolina, in part to address…
By Blake Proctor The regular Bladenboro Commission meeting began at 7pm sharp on November 9th with a rapped gavel by Mayor Rufus Duckworth. With no…
By Joy Warren Town of White Lake Board of Commissioners met on Tuesday evening via Zoom. The Board was given a Lake Management Update from…
By Charlotte Smith The Bladen County Commissioners held a regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, November 9, 2020. Although budgets and economic discussions and other business…
By Blake Proctor With Councilmember Lillian Graham absent, Mayor Perry Blanks gaveled the November 9 th East Arcadia monthly Council meeting to order at 7:04pm.…
Contributed on November 8, 2020 Bladen County Republicans — The fight for America is on!!! Yes, it’s GAME ON, folks, and we successfully managed to…
Contributed on November 7, 2020 Good evening. Congressman John Lewis, before his passing, wrote: “Democracy is not a state. It is an act.” And what…
By Blake Proctor At 6:00pm, with all Commissioners in attendance, Mayor Darryl Dowless gaveled a Public Hearing to order to hear public input on amending…
Contributed RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina elections officials wish to remind Election Day voters that it may take a few weeks before their “voter history”…
RALEIGH, N.C. — Under state law, elections officials must release the number of provisional ballots cast in each county by noon two days after the election.…
The North Carolina State Board of Elections held a press conference this afternoon for State Board officials to update the typical post-election processes. Most questions…
Men and Women United for Youth & Families are saying thank you for the freedom to vote with music and food at the lot beside…
by Blake Proctor The Nation has spoken and Boards of Elections all over this great Land are busy counting ballots; it may be several days before all ballots…
2020 Bladen County Election Results Updated: Nov. 3, 9:12 p.m. BLADEN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AT-LARGE (3 seats) 17 of 17 precincts VOTES DISTRICT 1…
RALEIGH – The North Carolina State Board of Elections voted Tuesday to extend voting at four precincts after each polling site opened late. North Carolina has…
Men and Women United for Youth & Families have provided Safe Polling Sites in Bladen County for the last 10 days. Today the local non-profit…
According to Rev. Keith Graham, throughout October, Men and Women United for Youth & Families has provided “Safe Polling Sites” in Bladen County. Rev. Graham…
Contributed RALEIGH — The N.C. State Board of Elections anticipates that the results reported by the end of election night will include 97 percent or…
Photos by Kenneth Armstrong, kenarmphoto.com Eric Trump spoke Friday night at Cape Fear Vineyard and Winery in Elizabethtown. The son of President Donald Trump was…
The Bladen County Board of Commissioners have scheduled a public hearing on Monday, Nov. 9 to receive comments regarding a draft Community Development Block Grant-Coronavirus…
Photo above is contributed and features Ms. Mae Ola “Granny” Sheridan, a 102-year-old, Elizabethtown resident casting her 2020 vote. This election has been like no…
From N.C. State Board of Elections RALEIGH — County boards of elections in North Carolina will accept mail-in ballots received by November 12, as long…
Contributed Eric Trump will be in Elizabethtown this Friday (October 30th) at 7pm (Doors open at 6pm) at the Cape Fear Vineyard and Winery! In…
Contributed Today, October 28, Biden for President will host The Future of Small Business and Entrepreneurship with Mark Cuban, Daniel Lubetzky, Maya Harris, and Rufus Gifford.…
Contributed by Mr. Ray Britt Mr. Taylor, After several calls from our citizens in Bladen County, I decided to respond to your article. It was…
Contributed by Mr. Greg Taylor Fellow Citizens, I am running for county commissioner county-wide. Obviously, I believe that I am the right person for the…
By Blake Proctor The October 19th County Commission opened with a bang as Chairman Ray Britt gaveled the meeting to order at 6:30pm. The…
By Blake Proctor Relatively heavy early voting continued on Friday and over the weekend, with a three-day tally of 2,301 ballots cast; this does not…
By Blake Proctor Thursday, October 15th, was the first day in Bladen County the electorate could vote early – also known as “One-stop voting.” A…
Contributed RALEIGH — North Carolina voters turned out in droves on the weather-friendly first day of the early voting period Thursday, with nearly 230,000 ballots…
Bladen County One-Stop voting starts tomorrow, October 15, 2020, for the General Election. There are six one-stop sites in the county. This period is sometimes…
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and NC Lt. Governor Dan Forest will partake in the first – and only – Debate for North Carolina Governor…
By Charlotte Smith On October 7, 2020, Bladen County Board of Election’s Director, Chris Williams, confirmed to the local board of elections there were around…
By Blake Proctor The East Arcadia Town Council met on Monday October 12th with a sparse agenda on the table. Mayor Perry Blanks called the…
Bladen County Commissioner Ray Britt shared an open letter from Rev. Mark Harris, Candidate for North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District in the US House of…
by Charlotte Smith In August, Bladen County Sheriff Jim McVicker reminded everyone it is a crime to damage or remove political signs. That has not…
Contributed RALEIGH — The State Board of Elections on Thursday welcomed its newest members, Republicans Tommy Tucker and Stacy “Four” Eggers IV, who were appointed…
Raleigh, N.C. – Eligible individuals who want to cast their ballot on Election Day 2020 have until Friday, October 9 to register to vote. To register,…
RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday that he accepted the nominations for Carr McLamb and Tommy Tucker as the newest members of the State…
By Blake Proctor At under 150 acres and with fewer than 120 residents – 147 acres to be exact, with a 2019 population projection of…
by Charlotte Smith North Carolina is in the news again for perceived unethical behaviors during election dealings. Saturday, October 3, federal judge, Judge James Dever,…
The Bladen County Board of Commissioners are expected to receive an update regarding COVID-19 from Health and Human Services Director Dr. Terri Duncan on Monday…
September 30, 2020 For Immediate Release Raleigh, NC – Federal District Judge William Osteen Jr. of the Middle District of North Carolina issued an order…
RALEIGH, N.C. – With 33 days until the November 3 election, county boards of elections have approved the absentee ballots of about 300,000 voters. This means…
Photo by Chairman of Bladen County Democratic Party Larry Hayes published on his Facebook page. By Blake Proctor With all five members present, the Bladen…
RALEIGH – U.S. Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. for the Eastern District of North Carolina today announced that the First Fruit Ministries received a $500,000…
(Raleigh, N.C.) – It’s your money, and State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, is eager to put it back in the hands and wallets of…
RALEIGH: In preparation for flu season, Governor Roy Cooper got his flu shot today at the Wake County Public Health Center and encouraged North Carolinians…