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Angel Young helps South Robeson High School students fill out online applications to colleges during College Application Day at the school, sponsored by the College Foundation of North Carolina. | Staff photo by Sara Hottman
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LUMBERTON — At one time, barely 30 percent of South Robeson High School seniors went to college after graduation. This year, 77 percent are at least making an effort to move on to a two- or four-year institution, with the help of the College Foundation of North Carolina, which works to guide poor, minority students on the path to college. “Her...
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Lumberton at head of Christmas parade lineLUMBERTON — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in downtown Lumberton as city workers prepare for the annual Christmas Parade by hanging up wreaths, lights, and tinsel. The parade will b...
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Health Board: Veterinarian wins C.E. Inman awardLUMBERTON — It was the best of times, it was the worst of times at the Robeson County Health Department this year, the assistant director said during the annual report dinner on Thursday at the ...
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Tribal Council overrides 2 vetoes
PEMBROKE — Newly elected Tribal Chairman Purnell Swett will have to name a tribal administrator shortly after he takes office in January. On Thursday, the Tribal Council voted 15 to 3 to overrid...
PEMBROKE — Newly elected Tribal Chairman Purnell Swett will have to name a tribal administrator shortly after he takes office in January. On Thursday, the Tribal Council voted 15 to 3 to overrid...
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Rams rally in opener
HOPE MILLS — The Purnell Swett boys’ basketball team fought back from a 10-point halftime deficit Thursday to beat South View 67-63 and gave coach James Williams his first win as a Ram. ...
HOPE MILLS — The Purnell Swett boys’ basketball team fought back from a 10-point halftime deficit Thursday to beat South View 67-63 and gave coach James Williams his first win as a Ram. ...
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Full speed ahead: Jets, Tornadoes hitting stride at right timeFAIRMONT — The playoffs are all about getting hot at the right time and the Fairmont football team is a prime example of that. Fairmont started the season with five straight losses, but has now ...
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Classic to showcase top prospectsRED SPRINGS — Don’t be surprised if you bump into Tennessee’s Bruce Pearl, N.C. State’s Sidney Lowe or even Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski in Red Springs this afternoon. Leaders of...
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Mixed signals
Everything, it turns out, is not for sale. But for a brief period, a test score did carry a price tag at Rosewood Middle School in Wayne County. When word spread, however, the offer went poof. U...
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That is All: It’s a dog day afternoon“You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog, cryin’ all the time …” — Elvis I have been visited by The Gift That Keeps On Giving — The Crud. I couldn’t find the reference at the Centers for Disease C...
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excusesThere are fewer and fewer excuses to not recycle in Robeson County. Disappearing are the days that it required a determined effort to recycle spent items such as paper, plastics, bottles and metal...
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This is the second in a series of columns by Features Editor Johna Strickland about her experience taking shag dancing lessons — editor. I hijacked Brian, which surprised us both. There we were ...
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