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Sweet tooth contractors get set to build gingerbread houses
LUMBERTON — Doris and Charles Paul are thinking about windows and architecture as December draws closer. Edible windows, that is, perhaps constructed from a semi-translucent candy and popped into the gingerbread walls of their houses. As contestants in gingerbread house contest at Biggs Park Mall, they talk often about complying with the all-edible-parts rule and get ideas from candies they encounter. “We’ll be in the grocery store and just g...
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Reunions for June 29
The Pembroke High School class of 1959 will hold its 50-year reunion at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Sheff’s Seafood restaurant in Pembroke. For information, call (910) 521-2242, (910) 521-4608 or (910) 738-2663. The Orrum High School class of 1973 will hold its 36-year reunion Friday and Saturday at Robeson Community College in Lumberton. For information, call Larry Robinson at (910) 374-4867 or e-mail, Lrplarry191@aol.com or Shirley Richardson Ba...
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Tuscarora Nation of Maxton hosts American Indian Festival, Pow Wow
MAXTON — American Indians from across the country will join the Tuscarora Nation as it celebrates its 29th annual Cultural Festival and Pow Wow on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Tuscarora Nation Territory Tribal Grounds at 288 Tuscarora Nation Road in Maxton. This three-day event is a family gathering and the public is invited to attend. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for children, and free for senior citizens. Tuscarora Nation event groun...
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Four singers to perform at Civic Center on Saturday
LUMBERTON — The Carolina Civic Center will host four emerging singer/songwriters who will showcase classics from artists such as Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Smoky Robinson on Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 for the general public and $10 for students. The four featured performers are: — Chinua Hawk, who has performed with Celine Dion in front of a crowd of 30,000 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He’s also written songs with...
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Writer reexamines the Lost Colony
LUMBERTON — William V. Pate, a resident of Hope Mills and author of “The Survival of the Lost Colony: The Untold Story,” will speak at 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Robeson County Historical and Genealogical Society’s monthly meeting in Lumberton. Pate will speak about the suppositions given for the disappearance of members of Sir Walter Raleigh’s colony on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island in 1587. His book about the subject provides verbatim tra...
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'Biggest Loser' can help you win
I’ve often used the television program “The Biggest Loser” as a topic for my columns, and last week’s episode sparked another idea for this week. NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” is a reality show in which obese men and women compete against each other to lose the most weight. Now since it’s a reality show, you have to see past the silly challenges, strategies and alliances to see the true importance of the show. The contestants are average people w...
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Family Ties
LUMBERTON — How far can you trace your family’s history? There’s a column’s worth of Townsends in the Robeson County phonebook. People with that last name have been in Robeson County since before the Revolution, according to Daniel Townsend, but he goes much deeper than that in tracing his lineage. Townsend’s book, “In Search of Thomas,” is a genealogical and historical exploration of the patriarch of the American side of the Townsend family,...
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Armchair reading is relaxing again
I read a lot. I read all day, every day at work. I read emails, pieces of paper that people scribble on and drop off at the office and fuzzy faxes. When I get home, I read the New York Times, the Washington Post and The Onion online. My bookshelf at home is stocked with a few books — most of which I've read already. I have a collection of Freud's writing, the Federalist papers, a book of short stories by Woody Allen and a bunch of cookbooks. B...
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St. Andrews teacher wins Horsewoman of the Year
LAURINBURG — An equestrian coach with strong ties to Robeson County has been named the Professional Horsewoman of the Year by the American Quarter Horse Association — an international breed association. Carla Wennburg, who lives in Robeson County for almost a decade, teaches riding classes at St. Andrews College in Laurinburg and leads its competition team. The American Quarter Horse Association chose to honor Wennburg for her work over the ye...
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Show featuring the music of Billy Joel comes to GPAC
PEMBROKE — Billy Joel fans will want to see “Movin’ Out,” a Tony Award winning musical, at the Givens Performing Arts Center on Monday at 8 p.m. The show — which is based on 24 classic songs by Joel, including the song that inspired the musical’s title — was choreographed by Twyla Tharp. It is the story of lifelong friends who share their lives over two decades. Characters are taken directly from the lyrics in Joel’s songs like Brenda and Edd...
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What's Happening
Theater: Robeson Little Theatre will present “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” April 26 at the Carolina Civic Center. Showtime is 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, $5 for students and children. Volunteers: Southeastern Hospice will hold its monthly meeting for volunteers on April 27 at 7 p.m. at 2002 N. Cedar St., Lumberton. The public is invited to attend the meeting and learn more about Southeastern Hospice...
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Briefs 4/22
Silver Award project raises awareness about pet adoption LUMBERTON — Girl Scout Troop 719 will put on a children’s program on Friday to benefit the Robeson County Claws and Paws Rescue and the American Cancer Society Relay for Life. The activities will begin at 6 p.m. at Luther Britt Park and will include children’s activities such as a coloring contest, a poisonous plant flash card game, pin the bone on the dog and face painting. Registratio...
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Different strokes for sexes
“The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends.” — Unknown When it comes to weight gain, there are vast differences in the where and how much we accumulate based on our sex. Men normally gain weight around their abdomen and waist while women gain weight in the upper body (arms/breasts) and the lower body in the hips and thighs. How fair is that? Women are naturally built to...
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Terry Russell races his Chevy truck at the Laurinburg-Maxton Airport at speed trials organized by the East Coast Timing Association
Life in the fast lane
ST. PAULS — You have to look past the dull flat paint of Terry Russell’s Chevy S-10 mini-truck to see its real beauty. You have to see inside the cab or under the hood. The interior looks like a maze. The roll cage makes a cocoon around the driver and is sparse. It has a steering wheel, a couple of switches and a gear shift lever. The tubular beams in the cage are built to protect the driver in the event of a crash. That’s a good thing becau...
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Do laundry instead of seeing 'Observe and Report'
Oh, boy. I don’t know where to start with this week’s unfortunate selection, “Observe and Report.” On second thought, start by staying home. Seth Rogen is Ronnie Barnhardt, head of mall security at the Forest Ridge Mall. Wielding a taser gun, a night stick, and bipolar disorder, Ronnie is a tightly-wound time bomb perched on the threshold of explosion. But who could blame him? After all, as a security officer at a busy mall, Ronnie and his b...
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