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GPAC to feature eclectic selection of performances for 37th annual series
PEMBROKE — Givens Performing Arts Center’s 37th year features an with an eclectic selection of performances, with everything from Broadway hits to classic beach to Motown. The Broadway and More Series, which kicked off Friday with “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” also includes a tribute to rhythm and blues with an evening of soul with Clarence Carter, Percy Sledge and Roy C, legends of American music. The National Circus of the People’s Republic of C...
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Reunions for 30 Sept., 2012
Lumberton High School class of 1992 will hold its reunion from Friday to Saturday. The reunion will begin on Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the LHS football stadium at the game against Hoke. A reception will follow at Adelio’s restaurant. On Saturday there will be an alumni golf tournament at Pine Crest Country Club at 9 a.m., with a dinner following at Candy Sue’s restaurant from 8:30 p.m. to midnight. The reunion will conclude on Oct. 7 wit...
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Janet Davis
UNCP art student enjoys international success
PEMBROKE — An egg yolk, a weed and spilled paint were the winning ingredients for The University of North Carolina at Pembroke art major Janet Davis in the SCAN.IT Exhibition in Brighton, England. Three of the seven digital art works Davis submitted were selected for exhibition in Brighton’s Gallery 40 on Aug. 2 through Aug. 19. A photographer by training, the senior art major created these images with a scanner. “I scanned them at very h...
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Blown away: A look inside ‘Gone with the Wind’
RALEIGH — Seventy-one years after the Civil War ended, a force would once again invade the South and spread across the nation. In 1936, 10 years after a Remington Portable No. 3 typewriter first slammed the words “Gone with the Wind” onto paper, Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War-era novel was released to the public. That was a decade before Jim Tumblin, the owner of the largest private collection of “Gone with the Wind” memorabilia, was born,...
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Military news for Sept. 26
LUMBERTON — Airman JaJuan A. Richardson, a graduate of Lumberton High School, graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Richardson, the son of Sandra Scales, completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles and skills, earning four credits toward an associate’s degree in Applied Sc...
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Trish Terrell
Features Brief for Sept. 26
LUMBERTON — Trish Terrell, a Lumberton author who writes under the name p.m. terrell, is the Friends of the North Carolina Public Library Volunteer of the Year. She will receive a certificate at the library’s annual meeting on Oct.27 in Greensboro. As co-founder of the Book ‘Em Foundation, a writers conference and book fair that raises public awareness about the correlation between high illiteracy and crime rates, Terrell established Book ‘E...
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Tahnea Locklear
Supporting the local food movement has benefits
As Community and Rural Development agent with Cooperative Extension, my duties cover tourism, local foods and sustainable local economy. I believe I can be most successful when the words and concepts associated with my work are fully understood. The local foods movement is gaining momentum in North Carolina, and Robeson County stands to gain so much by supporting its efforts. Local foods are foods that are grown or produced — depending upon...
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Katie Huneycutt
Library offers a wealth of information, and activities
Learning to read begins before children start school. Young children need to develop important language and literacy skills before they can actually learn to read. Parents and other caregivers can start helping their children develop these skills now. The Every Child Ready to Read workshop series from Robeson County Public Library demonstrates how parents can use five familiar and easy-to-use practices to develop language and other early li...
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The third Debutante Ball sponsored by the Sigma Iota Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. was held on June 16 at the Heritage Building on South Main Street in Fairmont. Deja Shanice Lewis of Fairmont, center, was the winner, and Mikella Townsend of Lumberton, third from right, was the second runner up. The two are joined by Alea Henry, left, Alexcia Thompson, Charise Roberts, Kierra Nicole Pittman, second from right, and MiChaela Livingston, first from right.
Having a ball
The third Debutante Ball sponsored by the Sigma Iota Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., was held on June 16 at the Heritage Building on South Main Street in Fairmont. Deja Shanice Lewis of Fairmont, center, was the winner, and Mikella Townsend of Lumberton, fourth from left, was the second runner up. The two are joined by Alea Henry, left, Alexcia Thompson, Charise Roberts, Kierra Nicole Pittman and MiChaela Livingston.
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Pvc. Sidney Alan Hunt
Military news for Sept. 23
LUMBERTON — Pvc. Sidney Alan Hunt has graduated from basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C. He is currently stationed at Fort Lee, Va. Hunt is the son of Scot and Kim Hunt, and Stephanie and Harold Smith, all of Lumberton. His grandparents are Timmie and Gerlene Hunt of Lumberton, Joe and Brenda Locklear of Lumber Bridge, and Floyd Jones of Red Springs.
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Features briefs for Sept. 23
PEMBROKE — Two Robeson Count residents were winners of the juried art exhibition of Fayetteville State University and The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. They are Daniela Jimenez of Maxton, who won first place for printmaking, and Kayla Seedig of St. Pauls, who won second place for drawing and painting. The winners were announced recently during a region-wide Chamber of Commerce mixer in UNCP’s University Center Annex. There wer...
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Patricia Terrell, the internationally acclaimed local author who writes under the name p.m. terrell will speak about the real people and locations that inspired her newest book and the third installment to the Black Swamp Mysteries Series, 'Secrets of a Dangerous Woman.' The event will be held at the Carolina Civic Center and Historic Theater at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
Kick back and enjoy
LUMBERTON — Opposite her living room window where author Patricia Terrell sits surrounded by her mystery-suspense novels, heavy rainfall pounds the saturated ground. Terrell, who writes under the name p.m. terrell, smiles and widens her twinkling eyes. “The funny thing is,” she says, “is that truth is stranger than fiction.” Terrell is responding to the question as to whether the plots in her Black Swamp Mysteries series, which is set in ...
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Dustin Roy, a grill cook at Candy Sue's restaurant in downtown Lumberton, spends his spare time making action figures completely out of twist ties. 'I guess it’s the kid in me,' he said of the hobby. Anne-Claire Siegert | The Robesonian
Guts: Art from the inside out
LUMBERTON — One might say that traveling from Lumberton to New York City in an attempt to exhibit art takes a lot of guts. But having guts is what motivates Dustin Roy, and it’s what makes him create art from the inside out. “I start in the chest cavity,” Roy said, holding an 8-inch-tall action figure in his hands. “Leonardo DaVinci would have been proud. He focused on anatomy, and that’s how I make these.” “These” are fully-mobile action...
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Featured Briefs for Sept. 19
LUMBERTON — The town of Fairmont will hold its 26th annual Fairmont Farmers Festival on Oct. 20 from 10 a.m. to midnight There will be a parade, live entertainment, wrestling, arts and crafts and an antique car show in downtown Fairmont on Oct. 20, and that day the Carolina Breakers will perform starting at 9 p.m. at the Robeson County Fairgrounds. Tickets for the dance are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. The Fairmont Farmers Festival...
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Jana Mashonee, a Lumbee singer, songwriter and author will perform on Thursday during the free concert series, Peace in the Park.
Grammy nominee to perform in Pembroke
PEMBROKE — Peace in the Park will continue Thursday with a performance by Jana Mashonee. A member of the Lumbee tribe, Mashonee is a singer, songwriter and author. Her album “American Indian Story” was nominated for a Grammy award, and she has performed at venues like Carnegie Hall in New York City. Charly Lowry, the lead singer for Dark Water Rising and an organizer for the concert series, said: “Jana has maintained her success as an ind...
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