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LUMBERTON – Forty-two new COVID-19s were reported Monday through the Robeson County Health Department.
New instances of the new coronavirus, recorded over the weekend, bring Robeson County general tests to 2540, killing 52 county citizens after contracting the virus.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has a positive rate of 18% in Robeson County, although some cases distort the local percentage, the director of the county’s fitness department said.
“Management tests conducted through the Lumbee tribe and the Department of Health have a positivity rate of 4% or 5%,” Bill Smith said. “The explanation of why the top rate is express populations with positive mass evidence, such as processing plants, long-term care services, and criminal populations.”
Of the 42 new cases, 24 were and 18 were men. The oldest new patient is 73 years old and the youngest is thirteen years old.
The American Indians accounted for 17 of the cases, 8 were white, six African-Americans, five Hispanics, and six mentioned their race.
Twenty of the positive cases were tested at the local hospital. Seven were each assessed at the entrance to the Lumbee Tribe and at an outdoor hospital in Robeson County. Six were evaluated at an immediate care center and two were evaluated at a personal provider.
According to the county fitness department, management checks are carried out at a pharmacy in Lumberton. Driving checks for the Lumbee tribe, scheduled for Tuesday, have been postponed. Another tribal control site will be operational at Zion Hill Baptist Church in Rennert from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday and Friday.
Pre-enrollment is recommended on all sites because it speeds up the verification process, but it is not required. Information about verification sites should be on the Facebook page of each of the organizations involved.
The South East Regional Medical Center reported on Monday that 20 patients were in solitary confinement after positive for COVID-19 and that 25 workers were quarantined.
The national fitness firm reported 1,313 new COVID-19 instances on Monday, bringing the state total to 126,532 laboratory-confirmed instances. The NCDHHS also published its alleged positive weekly count of 105,093, on World Health Organization rules and the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The virus caused or contributed to the deaths of 1,982 state citizens and left 1,057 citizens hospitalized.
Tropical Storm Isaias Rain Leaves County Flood Fears
Lumberton men face fees after MPs respond to home invasion report
LUMBERTON – About 3,500 Duke Energy consumers in Lumberton experienced power outages Monday night through Tuesday morning, but the peak was not similar to Hurricane Isaias.
“The only thing that happened was around 6 p.m., when much of the city lost electricity,” said Bill French, Lumberton’s director of emergency services. “The typhoon had not yet arrived.”
The director of electric power services, Lamar Brayboy, said that about 3,000 consumers in the city, adding up to several businesses, had lost strength due to an electrical substation.
“We had mechanical problems, gadgets at the substation,” Brayboy said.
A paint crew capable of repairing the force in less than an hour.
“The branch of applications has done a task of regaining strength,” French said.
The body of emergency workers and other French and county application workers reported minimal or no damage to Isaias.
Isaias landed Monday night in Ocean Isle Beach, Brunswick County, as a Category 1 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center. By 6 a.m. on Tuesday, the typhoon had moved to Virginia after staying in North Carolina for about seven hours.
The typhoon’s risk prompted state-of-the-state statements from the towns of Maxton and Red Spring and Robeson County. St. Pauls imposed a curfew from 8 p.m. Monday at 6 a.m. on Tuesdays.
Maxton was lifted Tuesday at 1 p.m. and the county was rescied on Tuesday.
The Red Springs ordinance will remain in position to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but the order imposes no restrictions on the public, executive chairman David Ashburn said.
About five thousand storm-related blackouts occurred from Monday afternoon to Tuesday morning, but the entire force was restored around 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Brayboy said. Most of the errors were due to damage to a primary circuit and lines of force that had fallen from tree branches.
French said the winds had reached 27 mph in the city and that there had been “flooding located on the streets.”
“It wasn’t constant, so I don’t think it caused any primary damage,” French said. “We behaved much better than we thought.”
Robeson County Director of Emergency Management Stephanie Chavis reported an uneventful afternoon.
County Communications reported no structural damage as a result of the storm, and the North Carolina Department of Transportation reported no road closures, Chavis said. The Emergency Operations Center has returned to general operations.
“Thank God for the magnitude, however, it’s still a smart practice for emergency management,” Chavis said. “Keep us alert.”
According to the application company, about 270 Duke Energy consumers in Robeson County lost power. The remaining 4 consumers were readmitted on Tuesday afternoon.
Lumbee River Electric Membership Corporation reported any disruption, said Walter White, vice president of corporate services at LREMC.
“We’re lucky Array,” White said. “We’re lucky. We dodged a bullet.
White said LREMC had won nearly 400 calls for power outages Monday night in neighboring Hoke County, but that all consumers had re-established the force until 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
Lumberton won about 1.38 inches of rain, said Rachel Zouzias, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service. At 0700 on Tuesday, the Lumber River water point at Lumberton 11.1 feet.
The river expected to peak about 12 feet on Wednesday, one foot below the 13-foot flood level.
“You were successful,” Zouzias said.
LUMBERTON – A 24-year-old Fayetteville woman killed and 3 people, adding a 6-year-old boy, were injured in a rotation of the vehicle’s fate in Maxton, according to the State Highway Patrol.
The Highway Patrol received the report of the crash near McGirt and McGirt Gin roads about 6:31 p.m. Friday, Patrol Sgt. X.S. McPherson said Tuesday.
Ericka Alexis McLean, of 932 Country Drive, died Friday after the 2013 Ford passenger car traveling east on McGirt Gin Road and operated by 25-year-old Angel Javier Dickerson, of 1787 Mitchell Court in Fayetteville, failed to yield to another driver entering the roadway from a stop sign at McGirt Road, McPherson said.
Dickerson collided with a 2013 Chevrolet passenger driven through 51-year-old Joan Hunt Johnson at 21480 McLaurin Road in Laurinburg, he said. Dickerson’s vehicle left the road and overturned before stopping at a field. Johnson’s vehicle arrived from the road on the right.
Angel Dickerson, McLean and 6-year-old passenger Aiden Dickerson, from McLean’s management, were ejected from the vehicle, McPherson said. None of them were dressed in seat belts.
Johnson was wearing a seat belt and was not ejected from her vehicle.
Angel Dickerson was taken to UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill with serious injuries, McPherson said. Aiden Dickerson, McLean and Johnson were taken to Scotland Memorial Hospital in Laurinburg.
McLean died of injuries suffered in the crash.
“The investigation is ongoing,” McPherson said. “It appears to be a yield violation.”
No charges have been filed in the crash and no updates on the conditions of the injured were available, he said.
LUMBERTON – Distance education practices and scoring policy will be held Thursday at the Robeson County Public Schools Board Of Education Policy and Program Assembly.
The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at school district’s office at 100 Hargrave St. in Lumberton.
The public is not invited to the meeting because of COVID-19 concerns. The meeting will be broadcast and can be accessed by going online to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGcG23cWcDQ&feature=youtu.be
LUMBERTON — Monday is the deadline to register for the 2020 Southeast Regional Field Tours.
The tour is scheduled for Aug. 14 at Roberts Brothers Farm, located at Howell and Ruth roads in Robeson County, according to the North Carolina Cooperative Extension-Robeson County Center.
Registration is required this year because of government regulations restricting the number of participants at outdoor gatherings, according to Cooperative Extension. Participation will be limited to only the people who register. Participants can register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/southeast-regional-field-tour-stop-registration-115533157785
Masks and hand sanitizer will be available at registration check-in, according to Cooperative Extension. Participants will be encouraged to wear masks and practice social distancing guidelines while at the field tour.
At the grower-focused field tour, Ron Heiniger will discuss high-yield corn environments, and Rachel Vann will present on investigation management practices associated with high soybean yield. There will be an optional self-guided tour and a question-and-answer session after the event.
For a list of virtual tour options, go online to https://cals.ncsu.edu/crop-and-soil-sciences/virtual-events/
For detailed directions or more information, contact Mac Malloy by calling 910-671-3276 or via email at [email protected].
LUMBERTON — No decision was reached Tuesday on whether or not to cancel or move forward with the 74th Annual Robeson County Regional Agricultural Fair.
The fair’s board of directors is “waiting for further guidance from the governor (Roy Cooper) based on the state’s COVID situation,” said Shea Dejarnette, a fair board member.
Tuesday’s assembly follows the cancellation of the North Carolina State Fair. The annual occasion was cancelled due to security, monetary and participation issues caused by COVID-19, the state’s agriculture commissioner Steve Troxler said on July 29.
The next day, organizers announced the cancellation of Cumberland and Columbus counties.
Troxler said horse and junior livestock shows still will take place at the fairgrounds in Raleigh in October, with proper social distancing. There also may be more drive-through events where motorists can buy food usually sold by N.C. State Fair vendors.
Following in the state’s footsteps, Robeson County’s 24-member fair board voted Tuesday to hold youth livestock competitions. But, they will be virtual this year. Fair President Allen Faircloth told board members that other fairs are cancelling carnivals and vendors, but not the livestock program.
“A lot of them are running the livestock shows,” Faircloth said.
Dejarnette’s motion to continue with livestock judging and use money collected from sponsors to buy ribbons and trophies, and to pay competition costs was approved by the board.
The livestock competition will be set up in such a way that young competitors will make video recordings of their animals, Dejarnette said. The recordings will be viewed remotely by judges.
The annual fair attracts tens of thousands of others to Robeson County. On Tuesday, the show’s online page featured a schedule of occasions that included the Chickin ‘Pickin’, the motorcycle circus, the chainsaw cutting, King Arthur’s pastry competitions and the contest. Jim Quick and Coastline will perform what will be Beach Music Night.
The next program board assembly is scheduled for 7 p.m. September 1
LUMBERTON – The number of instances shown from COVID-19 in Robeson County has increased through 56, the fitness branch reported on Tuesday.
The new instances bring to 2596 the number of instances shown of the new coronavirus in Robeson County since the first positive case reported on March 21. Fifty-two instances resulted in death.
The men accounted for 29 of the reported cases on Tuesday. Twenty-seven were women. The oldest user who tested positive for 80 years and the youngest of 3 years.
Sixteen of the cases were American Indians, 14 were Hispanic, thirteen were African-American and two were white. Eleven of the case reports signed the race.
“The county’s demographics have been changing as it relates to the race/ethnicity of the people testing positive,” said Bill Smith, county Health Department director. “While Hispanics still reflect 40% of the positive cases, American Indians have now moved to second with 32%, while African Americans are at 25%. There is a large number of individuals, nearly 800, who did not have a race listed, so they could change the numbers somewhat, but probably not the order.”
The local hospital tested 23 of the cases reported Tuesday. Seventeen were tested at a private health-care provider. Six were tested outside Robeson County and four at the county Health Department. Three each were tested at a quick-care facility and the Lumbee Tribe drive-through testing site.
Drive-through testing is occurring daily at a pharmacy in Lumberton, according to the Health Department. The Lumbee Tribe’s drive-through testing will be in operation at Zion Hill Baptist Church in Rennert from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday and Friday.
Pre-enrollment is recommended on all sites because it speeds up the verification process, but it is not required. Information about verification sites should be on the Facebook page of each of the organizations involved.
The next Health Department drive-through testing site is scheduled for Aug. 13-14 at Lumberton Junior High School. More information about the testing site will be posted on the Health Department’s website.
Southeastern Regional Medical Center reported Tuesday that 17 patients were in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19 and 23 employees were in quarantine.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported 1,629 new cases statewide on Tuesday. The new cases bring to 128,161 the total number of cases reported statewide since the pandemic began. The virus has caused or contributed to the deaths of 2,010 states residents, and 1,166 residents remain hospitalized.
David Thompson reported Monday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office that he was the victim of a break-in that occurred on Hickory Road in Pembroke.
The following thefts were reported Monday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office:
Miranda Carter, Promise Lane, Lumberton; and Shanequa Love, Quail Run, Lumberton.
Edwin Britt reported Monday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office that someone shot into an occupied building on Matthews Bluff Road in Lumberton.
Sun Chuanyu, of West 18th Street in Lumberton, reported Monday to the Lumberton Police Department that someone broke into his vehicle while it was parked at a location on Lackey Street in Lumberton.
Francisco Ortiz Perez, of Flagstaff Drive in Charlotte, reported Monday to the Lumberton Police Department that someone stole his trailer, which contained various tools, from the parking lot of Hyde Park Baptist Church, located at 301 Roberts Ave. in Lumberton.
RALEIGH: A company that needs to build and operate a wood pellet production plant in Lumberton has received a state air permit.
The Air Quality Division of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued renewable energy for active energy, the NCDEQ announced Monday. Active Energy plans to build a facility at 1885 Alamac Road in Lumberton.
The permit includes other needs to address the considerations of others in the community.
They are:
– Test the stacking of hazardous air pollutants, toxic air pollutants and volatile biological compounds;
– Battery check to be performed 90 days after 180-day start;
– Emissions at the point of installation shall be reported every six months;
— Feedstock to be limited to 50% softwood.
“Needs and reports will be used to verify that the installation is working as indicated in the permission request, which meets the thresholds of the small installation permission category and meets the permit situations. Knowledge of battery verification will be made public, “reads a DEQ edition in part.
The final permit, final license review, hearing officer report, director’s note and environmental justice report must be held on the department’s website in https://deq.nc.gov/Active-Energy.
The permit was issued after a virtual public hearing on June 22. The permit was challenged by citizens who feared the operation could damage the surrounding area and leak pollutants to the Lumber River.
Active Energy Group PLC has acquired a 415,000-square-foot construction on Alamac Road in Lumberton that will be the U.S. base. For its biomass processing operations, according to an April 2019 publication on the company’s website.
“The United Kingdom-based forestry management company will create 50 jobs at the facility, which will house production of its CoalSwitch™ brand fuel products. AEG acquired the building and surrounding acreage from Alamac Holdings as part of a $50 million investment AEG anticipates making in Robeson County,” the posting reads in part.
LUMBERTON — Funding is now available to help North Carolina residents in crisis pay cooling or heating bills or secure cooling or heating resources.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Crisis Intervention Program provides assistance to qualified, low-income households who are experiencing a cooling-related crisis — or heating related crisis in the winter.
“We know many families are currently facing additional financial hardships due to COVID-19, and this program is designed to bring aid to those in crisis to alleviate cooling or heating emergencies,” said David Locklear, deputy director of Economic and Family Services in the Division of Social Services. “North Carolina is moving into its hottest months of the year, and we hope those eligible will take advantage of this program to help keep their families safe and healthy.”
A family is in crisis if it is living or in danger of experiencing a life-threatening emergency or related to its fitness and that cannot obtain sufficient, timely and adequate assistance from any other source, according to THE NCDHHS. A life-threatening emergency is explained as a family that does not have a heating or air conditioning source or realizes the number one heating or cooling, and the fitness or well-being of a family member would be in jeopardy if the heating or air conditioning crisis was not relieved.
The Energy Program Application Form must be downloaded to https://epass.nc.gov so that applicants can print and mail, fax, scan, or leave at a local DSS workplace upon completion. Applications can also be made by calling the county branch of the county’s social facilities or the workplaces of the county’s social facilities, until June 30, 2021, while the budget must be on. Households are evaluated separately through the branched branches of social facilities staff to determine if there is a heating or air conditioning crisis. The benefits for families would possibly vary depending on the amount needed to mitigate the crisis.
To qualify, a family will need to have at least one user who meets certain criteria, in addition to being eligible for income, and have a heating-like or air conditioning emergency. All major eligibility points must be obtained online at www.ncdhhs.gov/crisis-intervention-program.
The Crisis Intervention Program is funded federally by the Administration for Children and Families. The funds are distributed through county Departments of Social Services directly to the vendor or utility company.
LUMBERTON — The Board of Commissioners voted Monday to take control of two county agencies’ governing boards.
The board voted 5-3 to approved Raymond Cummings’ motion to have the commissioners oversee the governing bodies of the county’s Social Services and Health departments. The vote means the two boards will now act as advisory panels and the Board of Commissioners will make final decisions on matters related to the departments.
Board of Commissioners Chairman Lance Herndon and Commissioners Pauline Campbell and Jerry Stephens voted against Cummings’ motion. Vice Chairman Faline Dial and Commissioners David Edge, Tom Taylor, Roger Oxendine, and Raymond Cummings cast yes votes.
“I think that’s too great of a project to do on the telephone,” Commissioner Jerry Stephens said.
Campbell tried to move a movement to Cumming’s movement chart until the next assembly after more data could be gathered, but his movement failed because his had already passed.
“I don’t think it’s fair, ” said Stephens.
Stephens asked County Attorney Rob Davis to consult with the Lumber River Council of Governments to determine whether Campbell’s replacement move would have been enough to overturn the vote. Davis stated that only one movement can be considered at a time and that the vote was approved a moment before Campbell’s movement. But the lawyer said he’d ask.
“I didn’t expect to make that decision,” Herndon said. “I’m not for that.”
The resolution had been discussed through the Board of Commissioners for approximately two years, with the concept that the Lumber River Governing Council could take over, Taylor said.
“I’m a member of the DSS board of directors, and I haven’t said it once,” Herndon said.
In other news, the commissioners approved the granting to the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the authority to claim a state of emergency of the county if necessary, without the meeting of the entire council. This would allow the council to begin responding to emergencies, such as Hurricane Isaias, in the future.
During Monday’s meeting, Commissioners Edge, Stephens and Oxendine said they want the board to meet in the county’s new administration building on North Chestnut Street. County Manager Kellie Blue said she would work to make that happen.
Commissioners were informed that the county planned to move the Robeson County Wellness Center to the former administrative construction on Elm Street, Blue said.
Plumbing and other disorders want to be addressed before this can happen, he said. An assembly plan on the new construction shall be defined and submitted to the commissioners.
“I’d like to see that breakthrough, and I sense we still can’t do as many things at the time,” Edge said.
Blue told the Commissioner that plans to demolish the construction of the DSS in North Carolina were blocked because the cost, $700,000, is too high at this time.
“Know that I’m actively demolishing subsidies for this,” Blue said.
The director of the county’s fitness department, Bill Smith, told commissioners that Robeson County now has the highest percentage rate of positive COVID-19 instances in the state, after overtakeing the county. American Indians in the county have the highest rate of positive results, followed by African Americans and some whites.
“He’s in this community,” Smith said. “It’s not employee paintings anymore.”
He is worried about students this school year, Smith said. But, he would have never shut down schools in the first place.
“We’d have known what would’ve worked and what didn’t work,” Smith said.
County Emergency Management Director Stephanie Chavis briefed the commissioners on preparations for Isaias, a tropical storm at the time the meeting started.
Chavis said residents were encouraged to shelter in place at the homes of family members or friends, because of COVID-19 restrictions that would make operations of shelters more difficult.
She said first responders were on call, but would be ordered to stand down if winds were 35 mph or more.
“They know to expect the worst during the night,” Chavis said.
The threat of tornadoes would be high Monday evening into Tuesday morning, she said.
“We could be looking at flash flooding,” she said.
Also on Monday, commissioners congratulated County Information Technology Director Terry Buchanan, for his appointments to the National Association of Counties’ vice chair seat in the Telecommunications Committee and Technology Steering Committee, and seats on the Arts and Culture Commission and Information Technology Standing Committee.
In some areas, commissioners approved:
– An app to rezonate a 0.45-acre track at 242 Terry Sanford Drive in Maxton from the Residential Agricultural District to the Residential District to allow the owner, Terry Pate, to build a two-story garage.
– An application for a conditional use permit through Charles Hunt to allow the structure of a third space on approximately 2.50 acres at 102 Milestone Drive in Lumberton.
— A conditional use permit request from Herdman Ronald Revels III, of Revels Insurance Agency Inc., to clear the way for the establishment of a used car dealership at 13567 U.S. 301 North in St. Pauls.
— Adopting the Bladen, Columbus and Robeson Regional Mitigation Plan.
— Accepting bids of $6,000 and the cost of advertising for 162 Summer Hill Road in Lumber Bridge and a bid for $4,000 plus the cost of advertising for a property on Pansey Drive in Maxton
The commissioners tabled a conditional use permit request from Ronald and Jean Bruton to allow the establishment of a mechanic shop on about 58.24 acres of land on N.C. 211 West. Commissioners asked to see more paperwork and plan to revisit the request during their September meeting.
LUMBERTON – An invasion of the reported house led to the arrest of two Lumberton men.
Reco Locklear, 38, of Riley Circle, arrested Friday and charged with robbery with a harmful weapon, conspiracy to dedicate theft with a harmful weapon, attack and battery, first-degree robbery, property of a firearm through a convicted felon, unloading a gun into a compound to incite Array concern and two second-degree kidnapping charges , according to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office.
Locklear was placed in the Robeson County detention center on a $251,000 security deposit.
David Hinds Jr., 27, of 63 Riley Circle, was arrested Friday charged with possession of firearm by a convicted felon, trafficking opium/heroin, possession with intent to manufacture, sell and distribute a schedule II controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Hinds placed $77,000 bail facility.
Deputies responded Friday about 4:30 a.m. to a report of a home invasion at 616 Moss Neck Road in Lumberton, according to the Sheriff’s Office. During the home invasion, residents were robbed at gunpoint and multiple shots were fired inside the home.
Four adults and two children were in the home at the time of the robbery. No injuries were reported.
Locklear known as one of the suspects and captured at Hinds’ house.
When officers arrived at the residence, Locklear and others fled on foot, according to the sheriff’s office. Locklear is located near the K-9 Axel of the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff’s investigators then searched the space and took a firearm, leading to Hinds’ arrest and firearms charges.
“The investigation is ongoing and additional arrests are likely to be made,” a sheriff’s employee said in part.
Anyone with more information about the invasion of the house calls the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office at 910-671-3100 or 910-671-3170.
LUMBERTON – Forty-two new COVID-19s were reported Monday through the Robeson County Health Department.
New instances of the new coronavirus, recorded over the weekend, bring Robeson County general tests to 2540, killing 52 county citizens after contracting the virus.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has a positive rate of 18% in Robeson County, although some cases distort the local percentage, the director of the county’s fitness department said.
“Management tests conducted through the Lumbee tribe and the Department of Health have a positivity rate of 4% or 5%,” Bill Smith said. “The explanation of why the top rate is express populations with positive mass evidence, such as processing plants, long-term care services, and criminal populations.”
Of the 42 new cases, 24 were and 18 were men. The oldest new patient is 73 years old and the youngest is thirteen years old.
The American Indians accounted for 17 of the cases, 8 were white, six African-Americans, five Hispanics, and six mentioned their race.
Twenty of the positive cases were tested at the local hospital. Seven were each assessed at the entrance to the Lumbee Tribe and at an outdoor hospital in Robeson County. Six were evaluated at an immediate care center and two were evaluated at a personal provider.
According to the county fitness department, management checks are carried out at a pharmacy in Lumberton. Driving checks for the Lumbee tribe, scheduled for Tuesday, have been postponed. Another tribal control site will be operational at Zion Hill Baptist Church in Rennert from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday and Friday.
Pre-enrollment is recommended on all sites because it speeds up the verification process, but it is not required. Information about verification sites should be on the Facebook page of each of the organizations involved.
The South East Regional Medical Center reported on Monday that 20 patients were in solitary confinement after positive for COVID-19 and that 25 workers were quarantined.
The national fitness firm reported 1,313 new COVID-19 instances on Monday, bringing the state total to 126,532 laboratory-confirmed instances. The NCDHHS also published its alleged positive weekly count of 105,093, on World Health Organization rules and the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The virus caused or contributed to the deaths of 1,982 state citizens and left 1,057 citizens hospitalized.
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