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Professor Marcellus Wooten moved the North Carolina Military Academy from Fayetteville to Red Springs in 1899. This photograph of the band was taken about the time of the move. The academy flourished until 1908. Students that attended the academy included H.H. Hodgin, Chesley McCaskill and Tom DeVane. Photo courtesy of the Robeson County History Museum.
A look back — 1899
Professor Marcellus Wooten moved the North Carolina Military Academy from Fayetteville to Red Springs in 1899. This photograph of the band was taken about the time of the move. The academy flourished until 1908. Students that attended the academy included H.H. Hodgin, Chesley McCaskill and Tom DeVane. Photo courtesy of the Robeson County History Museum.
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A new chapter opens for writers conference
LUMBERTON — The Book ‘Em Foundation will hold the second annual Book ‘Em North Carolina Writers Conference and Book Fair at Robeson Community College on Feb. 23 from 9:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Headlining the event, which is free to the public, is New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Mary Alice Monroe, who will discuss her path to success and her passion in writing environmental fiction. Also headlining is Hollywood producer Chuck...
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Feature briefs for Aug. 1
PEMBROKE — The Givens Performing Arts Center will hold a performance of “Hansel and Gretel” by the participants in the GCamp Summer Camp on Friday at 6:30 p.m. The performance ends the week-long instruction for children ages 7 to 18 by professional directors from Missoula Children’s Theatre in Missoula, Mont. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $4 for children. PEMBROKE — The Pembroke Recreation Department will be holding a free...
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Janice Fields
Having a healthy heart begins with knowing risk factors
Does your heart have a healthy beat? How about your family members’? How many of them have high blood pressure, have had strokes, heart attacks, or other types of heart disease? As I talk to groups around the county and ask these questions, there are always a good number in the group who can attest to a family history of heart disease. Most of us can quickly list a number of family members, sometimes ourselves, who fit in this category. Hav...
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Members of the Spirit Riders, an all-female motorcycle group, will hold a bike run in an effort to raise $5,000 to help students at Union Elementary School. The fundraiser is the first in what the group plans to be a yearly event, benefiting a different school in the county each year and taking place on the first Sunday of every August.
Going the distance
LUMBERTON — While feeding her daughter french fries at the Village Station restaurant, Janet Woodell is surrounded by a group of women motorcyclists known as the Spirit Riders. She, along with the rest of the women, have come together to talk about what drives them. “My mom was a single parent with four kids, and I can tell you that it was hard on her,” Woodell said. “I could remember at school, the American Indian teachers that were there ...
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Ben Bahr, professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at UNCP, works with Postdoctoral fellow, Uzoma S. Ikonne, and UNCP students Olivia Bullard and Vivian Anunobi to dissect a mouse's brain.This year, Bahr received a patent in which he co-invented a new class of compounds that he has found promote the clearance of accumulating proteins in the brain, which are thought to interrupt memory encoding along neural pathways and across synapses.
Memorable discovery
PEMBROKE — In May, the Obama administration unveiled its plan to defeat Alzheimer’s disease by 2025. The disease affects more than five million people in the U.S., and the human toll and cost is rising rapidly. From the Biotechnology Research and Training Center, Ben Bahr has been watching this development with great interest. A world-class research scientist studying neurodegenerative diseases, he is The University of North Carolina at Pem...
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Katie Huneycutt
Another chapter closes
All good things must come to an end, including the Summer Reading Programs. A final performance and awards ceremony will conclude a summer filled with reading, writing, stories, songs, crafts, movies and more. Children will be captivated by Fish the Magish and his magic show on Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Lumberton at the Osterneck Auditorium and 2 p.m. in Pembroke. The show is free and children will be treated to face painting. An awards cer...
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Willard Small
Willard Small receives big award
FAIR BLUFF — Willard Small, the president of Lumberton Ford Lincoln, was recently awarded The Order of the Long Leaf Pine at a ceremony at the Fair Bluff Baptist Church’s Christian Life Center. Mitchell Tyler, a District Court judge, presented the award, which is North Carolina’s highest honor for a civilian. The award is issued by Gov. Bev Perdue and given to individuals with a lifetime of service to the state. Small, who has a 50-year r...
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Reunions for July 29, 2012
The descendants of Preston Locklear will hold a reunion Aug. 11 at 4 p.m. at the Preston Gospel Chapel at 1872 Preston Road. Bring a covered dish. For information, call Lillian Harris at 910-521-4107. Allenton High School classes 1950 through 1955 will hold its reunion on Sept. 8 at Pier 41 on Elizabethtown Road in Lumberton. RSVP by Aug. 20. For information, call Hazel Taylor at 910-739-5886, Betty Lou Prevatte at 910-739-2433, Bet...
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Announcements for July 29, 2012
ENGAGEMENT McCormick-Marlowe Michael and Lois McCormick of Rowland, announce the engagement of their daughter, Meredith Michele McCormick, to Thomas Adam Marlowe, the son of Tommy Marlowe of Nakina, and Lisa Norman of Clarendon. McCormick is the granddaughter of the late Ennis Byrd and Carolyn Byrd of Orrum, and the late Guy P. McCormick and Doris McCormick of Rowland. She received a bachelor’s degree in Excercise Science at Appalachi...
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History museum to host art exhibit
LUMBERTON — The Robeson County History Museum will celebrate the opening of “From Mother’s Hands — An Exhibit of Handcrafts and Paintings of Eva Pat Seawell” and “Selected works of Keith Barker Simmons” today from 3 to 5 p.m. The works of Seawell, who lived in Lumberton, include water color, oil and pastel paintings as well as quilts, needlepoint work and crochet. Eva Pat Seawell, who is deceased, began painting when she was 80, taking Cont...
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What’s Happening for July 29, 2012
TUESDAY Meeting: The Chad Allen Arnette Families and Friends of Murder and Homicide Victims support group of Robeson County will hold its monthly support and advocacy group meeting on Tuesday at The Bible Alive Ministries at the Floyd Mortuary and Bible Alive Ministries building at 809 E. Fifth St. The meeting is open to everyone that needs support. For questions, call Debra Arnette at 910-734-1527. Parenting program: The Southeaste...
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Danielle Chavis, trip coordinator, worked putting up vinyl siding in a mission trip to help low-income families in Alaska. The mission trip, which she attended with other volunteers from Elrod Baptist Church, was organized by World Changers, a Southern Baptist mission for youths, and pairs students with community projects throughout North America. Contributed photo.
Spreading the warmth
ROWLAND — The day most teenagers would trade in their swim trunks for snow pants and the sun’s rays for the chilly wind would be a cold day in July. But members of the Elrod Baptist Church did just that in a recent mission trip to Nikiski, Alaska, the largest state in the U.S., and also the coldest. Sixteen-year-old Makayla Locklear was among 22 church members who went out of her way to lend a hand to rural, poor families in the 49th state....
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National Dance Day swings into Lumberton
LUMBERTON — Saturday is the day to shake a leg. The third annual National Dance Day was established by Nigel Lythgoe, the executive producer and judge for the popular television series “So You Think You Can Dance,” for the last Saturday of July. As part of the celebration, Purple Door Productions will hold free introductory dance classes at 209 N. Elm St. in downtown Lumberton at the fountain plaza. The following classes will be availab...
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Feature briefs for July 25
LUMBERTON — The Robeson County History Museum will hold the opening of “From Mother’s Hands; An Exhibit of Handcrafts of Eva Pat Seawell” and “Selected Works of Keith Barker Simmons,” at 101 S. Elm St. on Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. “From Mother’s Hands” is a collection of paintings by Seawell, who started the art form at 80. “Selected Works of Keith Barker Simmons,” exhibits special pieces Simmons created in honor of Coach Dean Smith and in me...
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