This is July 4th, 2016, the 186th day of the year with 180 remaining.
240 years ago the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. Representatives of the Congress announced that the Thirteen American Colonies were no longer under British Rule, that they had formed a new nation.
Did you know that the term “Declaration of Independence” is not used in the document itself?
If you did not stay up until the Fort Bragg Major League Baseball game was over…final score, Marlins 5 – Braves 2.
Fireworks tonight shortly after 9 p.m. at White Lake. The actual show is at Goldston’s Beach, however they will be visible any where around the lake. It’s free.
BladenOnline continues to deliver the news better than anyone, and our numbers “back it up”
Last week, June 26-July 2, 2016, 158,742 pages were viewed. That is the third most in our history, there were 38,549 visits, the second most in our history and on Wednesday, June 29, 31,000 pages were viewed. Two of our articles were read over 15,000 times.
15,439: Pedestrian struck and killed in Elizabethtown;
15,187: Sampson County family is searching for missing son.
It was a busy week for our news folks, our readers responded and we Thank You.
If you would like for our readers to know about your business, contact Charlotte Smith at 910-876-5393.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. William Faulkner
Give me Liberty of give me death. Patrick Henry
Do what you can, with what you can, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
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