East Bladen Eagles (7-4) football team host Farmville Central (6-5) this evening in the 1st round of the 2A Football Playoffs. The visitors feature huge lineman, the Eagles have small, quick, fast scat backs. Should be a good game.
US 701 south of Elizabethtown (Browns Creek) is now open. Drive with care.
Congratulations are in order for Rev. Cameron McGill, Dublin First Baptist Church Pastor. He is the new President-Elect of North Carolina Baptist.
If you are a Facebook user/follower you undoubtedly saw all the wild claims during the recent national elections. Crazy statements by users claiming to be news organizations. Many were nothing but over zealous supporters of one or the other presidential candidates. Now, Facebook is trying to determine how to deal with such individuals the future, without over managing. Misleading was an understatement, and so many users never attempted to check to see who they were, including many locals. They just forwarded the ‘gossip’ as the truth, never checking for accuracy or authenticity.
Did you know fires have destroyed Bladen County courthouses on three different occasions? 1770, 1800 and 1893.
Another day with a little extra time, so I Googled Bladen County.
In 2010, Bladen County averaged 37 people per square miles with 8,937 families. 57.22% of the residents were white, 37.91% black and about 5% others, a total of 35,190 residents.
Bladen, the 4th largest county in North Carolina, land-wise, consist of 887 square miles, 874 land and 13 water.
Sunny and delightful is today’s weather forecast, with highs in the mid 70s, tomorrow sunny and breezy and temps again in the mid to upper 70s, then Sunday’s high in the low to mid 50s. Our next chance for rain, Thursday, but little is expected. The next time we have a pretty good chance of rain is November 30 and December 1.
I got a job in the transmission shop. It’s shift work.
Autumn….the year’s last, loveliest smile. William Cullen Byrant
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools. Henry Beston
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