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Dark Water Rising has chance to perform at Bonnaroo
MANCHESTER, Tenn. — Local band Dark Water Rising needs your help to be able to perform with the likes of Eminem, Lil Wayne and Loretta Lynn this summer. The band is competing in the 2011 Road to Roo contest sponsored by the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, which invites the public to vote for bands they think should win. The deadlineto vote is Friday. “To be able to perform at this festival will be taking it to the next level for Dark ...
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Club news for April 13
LUMBERTON — The Lumberton Junior High School Technology Club presented projects at the recent meeting of the Lambda chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International. Students, including Raven Rusk, Nick McGarry and Trey Floyd, showed photos of a model of a city they created, as well as robot models. They demonstrated the robots by placing them on the floor and giving commands or clapping to indicate actions. They also spoke about prep...
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Upcoming events highlight local produce, plants
There are so many great things that are about to happen in Robeson County that I do not know if I can get them all in this one tiny article. From locally grown strawberries to the first-ever Robeson County Garden Show, are you ready for spring? This year is all about promoting local business and commodities, so read on for all the great horticulture and gardening related events. It is strawberry time. There are eight large strawberry ...
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Locklear
Feature briefs
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Lt. Col. Colonel Stacy Locklear Jr. was recently promoted to the rank of colonel in the United States Air Force. He is assigned to the Directorate for MASINT and Technical Collection at the Defense Intelligence Agency in Charlottesville, Va. He is the son of Betty C. Locklear and the late Stacy Locklear Sr. of Pembroke.  RED SPRINGS —The Red Springs Arts Council will hold its annual Street Festival on Saturday....
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Organizer Janice Marika, left, and Jeannie Mareka plant a big wet one on former basketball and football Coach Tuney Brooks.
Blast from the past
LUMBERTON — More than 600 Lumberton High School graduates from the 1970s reunited on March 26 for food, fun and dancing at the Southeastern Agriculture Center. “It would appear we were all a part of something quite magical on Saturday,” said Carson Hilburn, an attendee. Some of the attendees traveled long distances to be re-acquainted with their classmates. Pam Allen, from the class of 1973, came from Colorado, and Phillip Hall, from the ...
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Dinner and dancing
Chancellor Carter and his wife Sarah, center, danced the night away recently at the Jade Masquerade Ball. The ball is an annual fundraiser hosted by the Givens Performing Arts Center to support its activities. There was a silent auction, dinner and entertainment by The Carolina Breakers.
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Belk invites local kids to model
LUMBERTON — If you’re shopping anywhere near the children’s department in Belk at Biggs Park Mall Saturday, don’t be alarmed if the mannequins spring to life. Belk will be inviting local children to model the spring fashions from noon to 3 p.m. that day during an informal fashion show. Boys and girls ages 6 through 11 are welcome to participate. “They will carry signs about he outfit they are wearing,” said Sandra Hayes, the area sales ma...
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Locklear
Club news for April 6
SADDLETREE — The guest speaker at Saddletree Community’s monthly meeting was Robert Locklear, the principal of Magnolia Elementary School. He discussed budget cuts, school programs and parental involvement in education.
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Features briefs for April 6
LUMBERTON — The deadline to enter the North Carolina Strawberry Association’s Kids’ Strawberry Art Contest is May 25. The contest, which asks children to draw anything that relates to strawberries or a strawberry farm, is open to students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Winners will be grouped from kindergarten to second grade, third to fifth grade and sixth through eighth grade, and awarded cash prizes. Entries must be postmarked ...
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Never to be forgotten
ADABELLE, Ga. — In September 1975, Barbara Braveboy-Locklear stood next to her husband’s grandfather in Adabelle, Ga., as he wept over his mother’s toppled gravestone. “I stood beside him and shared the mournful moment,” Braveboy-Locklear, a Pembroke native who now lives in Ocean Isle Beach, wrote in an essay she penned about the experience. “Tears followed the creases on his brown face. I wept with him. That day the spirits sang.” Among the w...
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Christopher Ramahan, left, and Regina Wilkerson participate in a game of 'Magic: The Gathering' at UNCP's first Anime and Manga Cosplay Festival Monday.
Culture exchange
PEMBROKE — Stephanie Spencer, decked out in red and black and toting a plastic gun, watched animation videos, made origami and played “Dance, Dance, Revolution” Monday at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She was dressed as Claire Redfield from the “Resident Evil” video game series, vying to win the costume contest at the university’s first Anime and Manga Cosplay Festival. “Usually I don’t do a lot of things on campus because...
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Autumn Walters, left, Troop co-leader Sandra Lewis, Rebecca Lewis, Gabriella Floyd, and Angel Huerta helped sell cookies at Walmart recently.
Girl Scouts turn 99
LUMBERTON — Local Girl Scouts recently celebrated the nation-wide organization’s 99th year of doing more than just selling cookies. In Robeson County, more than 1,000 girls and 80 adults are registered Girl Scouts. They participate in a variety of community service projects like providing blankets and supplies to the homeless, supporting homeless shelters, food drives, collecting can tabs for Ronald McDonald House charities, Operation Chris...
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April is the best time to plant
Have you made plans for your vegetable garden yet? If you are like me then you have not even thought about it, or maybe you are ahead of the game and have some cold hardy crops in the ground. For this area, April 15 is considered to be the frost date, or the last probable date for a killing frost. The wonderful weather that began in February and hung on until this past weekend has had a lot of people fooled. This week’s weather forecast has m...
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Features briefs for March 30
RALEIGH — Arts Day 2011, sponsored by Arts North Carolina, will be held at 9 a.m. on April 12 at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. Nneena Freelon, a world-renowned jazz singer, composer, producer, arranger and six-time Grammy nominee, will be honored. The event is the annual legislative and professional development event that brings hundreds of people from across North Carolina to speak with their legislators about the role a...
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Andrew Hunt takes a moment to look at his first place ribbon after completing a 50-meter walk at St. Pauls High School's Special Olympics Thursday. Staff photo by Lucy Newman
Special events for outstanding athletes
ST. PAULS — More than 100 Special Olympics athletes gathered Thursday to compete in track-and-field style events at St. Pauls High School. “Every child is a winner with Special Olympics,” said Sandra Evans, the Robeson County coordinator. “It brings together the school, the parents, and the community, all to support a special needs child.” The day started with a parade around the track, with the athletes touting school banners, and then a...
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