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Distemper scare at pounds puts hold on dog adoptions

LUMBERTON — No dogs will be adopted out of the Robeson County Animal Shelter for two weeks as a precaution against the possibility of distemper, an often fatal disease that is highly contagious. The action [...]
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Anti-opioid effort to launch

LUMBERTON — An initiative to combat violence, drug crimes and the rapidly growing opioid crisis in Eastern North Carolina will be announced today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. A news conference about the Take Back [...]
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Robeson County DSS trying to adjust to new NC requirements

LUMBERTON — The Robeson County Department of Social Services may have to hire more people in order to meet new state child welfare check standards. The department’s board of directors learned Tuesday that every building [...]
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Fire delivers gut shot to Fairmont

FAIRMONT — At 9:30 a.m. Saturday, the burned-out shell of the strip shopping center on North Walnut Street in Fairmont was still smoking from the fire that consumed it Friday evening, taking from the community [...]
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Fire guts 3 businesses in Fairmont

FAIRMONT — The investigation into the cause of the fire that gutted a business structure on North Walnut Street here was just beginning late this evening, the police chief said. State Bureau of Investigation agents [...]