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Timothy McKoy, front, and Brian Jacobs, back, study at the Lumberton Fire Department Thursday. Amanda Munger | The Robesonian
Fire department gets a facelift
LUMBERTON — Lumberton firefighters have new digs thanks to generous community members. The department has had a makeover in recent months with the donation of lamps, end tables, a television, bed spreads, pots and pans and more as part of a project headed by Bonnie Biggs. Most recent is the donation of new kitchen countertops, a sink, a faucet, stove tops, an oven and a tabletop. The labor for the projects is being done by firemen, but mo...
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Elizabeth Gibson
Club news for Jan. 22
LUMBERTON — Elizabeth Reed Gibson, a past North Carolina State Regent, was the speaker at the January meeting of the Col. Thomas Robeson Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. She presented a brief history of the society and its insignia, along with the guidelines for obtaining and wearing pins. LUMBERTON — Catie Roche, the director of the Robeson County Public Library, spoke at the Rotary Club meeting recently at Village Station ...
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Catie Roche
AARP Tax Program volunteers will be available at the public library
Nobody is thrilled about taxes but here is some good news to take some of the uncertainty out of tax preparation. Help is at hand. Internal Revenue Service-certified volunteers with the AARP Tax Program will be available at the library to help you e-file your taxes free of charge. Here is how the program works. Volunteers will be in the Osterneck Auditorium each Tuesday afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m. and each Wednesday morning from 9 a.m. to 1 ...
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Jim Parker
Initiate fitness with Rumba on the Lumber
This is the first in a series of columns about the 12th annual Rumba on the Lumber, which will be held March 3 in downtown Lumberton. — editor How often do you get the chance to put on your running shoes and line up behind a starting gun with some of the fastest 5K runners in the region? Or indulge your appetite with hot chili on Water Street by the Lumber River on a beautiful day surrounded by friends and neighbors? Or listen to great li...
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'In the Heights' will be performed at 8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Givens Performing Arts Center at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. | Contributed photos
Playing the part
PEMBROKE — Roddy Kennedy doesn’t have too much trouble getting in character for the show “In the Heights.” The Tony Award-winning musical, which is coming to Givens Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, is set in Manhattan’s Washington Heights, where Kennedy lives in real life. “Washington Heights is a really tight-knit community,” Kennedy said. “It’s a Latin community that thrives on community.” The show will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Ti...
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Kerrie Roach
When and why not to burn your lawn
The weather has been crazy this season. I have daylilies that think it is spring time starting to sprout and a lilac bush that does not believe that winter has arrived still full of lush green foliage. But there is one thing, regardless of the weather outside, that seems to happen at this time every year: People are burning their lawns. I sometimes wonder if it is based on ideas handed down, or passed around, or if it is just a notion to bu...
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Sandi Carter
United Way Dancers: Carter and Leach
Sandi Carter is married to District Court Judge John Carter and they have four children. She is employed as an Arts Education Supervisor with the Public Schools of Robeson County. Vonta Leach played football at East Carolina University and is a fullback for the Baltimore Ravens, who play the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game on Sunday. Leach, a Rowland native, was selected to his second straight Pro Bowl this season. The t...
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Features briefs for Jan. 18
PEMBROKE — A viewing of photographs taken by Elmer W. Hunt, a long-time Pembroke area photographer, will be held at 7 p.m. on Jan. 24 at the Mary Livermore Library reading room at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. The focus will be photos from “Strike at the Wind!,” and it will be moderated by Linda E. Oxendine. The event is free and open to the public. LUMBERTON — The musical “Remember the 60s” will be performed at 7 p.m. on ...
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Stan and Sandra Posner, the authors of 'Drive I-95 Exit by Exit,' were in Lumberton this week to research for the sixth edition of their book. The two, who live in Montreal, Canada, are traveling the interstate to Florida. Amanda Munger | The Robesonian
Road trip
LUMBERTON — Sandra and Stan Posner spent Tuesday feeding buffalo and sampling barbecue — all within the reach of Interstate 95. The husband and wife, who co-wrote the book “Drive I-95 Exit by Exit,” were in Lumberton Tuesday and Wednesday to do research for the sixth edition of their book. They made a pit stop at Jambbas Ranch in Fayetteville. “Who would think I’m on I-95 and I’m feeding buffalo?” Sandra said. For dinner that night, the...
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Helen Sharpe
Robeson Remembers project recognized
LUMBERTON — The Robeson Remembers project of the Robeson County History Museum was recently recognized for its writing and historical preservation at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Society of Historians. Helen Sharpe, the primary organizer of the county project, was awarded with the Paul Green Multimedia Award and the Barringer Award of Excellence. The Green award, named for playwright Paul Green, is awarded to people promoting ...
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Amanda Munger
Holidays are better at home
The holidays, which in November seem to stretch for miles into the future, are over. I hope you all made it through in one piece. Mine were filled with family time — something I haven’t had much of lately. My grandparents, who live on a street named after a citrus fruit in Tavares, Fla., drove up to spend the week of Christmas with me. Their stay filled my usually quiet apartment with a flurry of activity that I already miss. My 4-foot-tall...
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Military news for Jan. 15
ROWLAND — Stevie L. Hunt, formerly of Rowland, has been promoted to the rank of chief master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Hunt is an Air Force Reserve recruiter assigned to the Eastern Recruiting Squadron at Atlanta. He has served in the military for 27 years. He is the son of Sally Hunt of Rowland.
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Debra Dickerson and Charles Chrestman | Photo by Woodberry Bowen
Dickerson & Chrestman
Debra Dickerson is the owner of Coastal Speech Center. She has two sons and is the board chair for Communities in Schools. Charles Chrestman is the president of Robeson Community College. His family is originally from outside of Tupelo, Miss. He and his wife are both college educators. The two will come together to compete in the Dancing with the Robeson County Stars competition on March 24 at the Southeastern Agricultural Center. The Uni...
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Visiting veterans
Lumberton City Councilmen John Robinson and John Cantey, along with the Parkton Prowlers and Combat Veterans Motorcycle Clubs, recently visited the K&L Veterans Home in Lumberton to provide supplies and gifts to the veterans. The home is located at 903 Glenn St.
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Catie Roche
Libraries bring joy of reading to society
Recently, several of us from the library had the opportunity to attend a workshop featuring Jamie LaRue, the director of the Douglas County Library in Colorado. He is one of the prominent voices in America advocating for libraries. Among his many credentials, he is distinguished for transforming his library from a county department that was ranked as the worst public library in Colorado to an independent library district which is currently ...
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