RALEIGH – Schools, network schools and universities that want a host site for the National Transportation Institute 2021 program have until noon on October 2.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation is for the host sites of the program that addresses the need for a diverse workforce in the 21st century and seeks to raise awareness about potential career options and opportunities in the transportation industry. The NSTI program is one of many educational projects created through the United States Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. The program is funded by the federal government but administered through the state transportation departments.
The NSTI program focuses on science, technology, engineering and mathematics for the best high school and high school academics, according to NCDOT. The objectives of the programme are to improve STEM skills, to raise awareness among middle and upper school academics, i. e. minority youth, disadvantaged women and young people – about careers in maritime transport and to inspire participants to the fields related to maritime transport to examine in their higher education.
Academic establishments interested in serving as host sites must complete and submit their application files directly to the NCDOT, adding a painting (up to 10 pages), a list of programs and a budget proposal. Accredited higher education institutions must submit a competitive offer proposed for the program, which will last two to four consecutive weeks with a budget of $60,000 or less.
NCDOT will determine the number of NSTI host sites that you want to finance as a component of the 2021 state investment allocation. Depending on budget availability, schools do not benefit from the guaranteed budget to serve as host sites. factors, adding beyond programs and functionality (programmatic and fiscal), if applicable.
For information, call JoAna McCoy at 919-707-2776.
Crime report
Timothy Dial reported Thursday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office that he was the victim of a break-in on Tucker Road in Pembroke.
Tara Carter reported Thursday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office that she was the victim of a vehicle break-in on Old Lowery Road in Red Springs.
The following robberies reported Wednesday and Thursday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office:
James Herny, West Parkton Tobermory Road, Parkton; BMCO Construction, Kenric Road, Lumberton; and robeson County Animal Shelter, Piedmont Drive, Rowland.
Zachary Williams, Pee Wee’s Auto Parts worker
LUMBERTON – A member of President Donald Trump’s family circle conducted a brief and unforeseen prevention Wednesday at a local restaurant.
Lara Trump, wife of presidential son Eric Trump, Trump’s national women’s tour to Adelio restaurant on West Third Street. With her came Internet personalities Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway and Rochelle “Silk” Richardson.
He even surprised the Robeson County Republican Party.
“Honestly, we didn’t know until the last minute. Trump’s local coordinator reported yesterday. I didn’t even know the time until a few hours before his arrival,” said Phillip Stephens, party president.
The wonder caused in component through the protective facets of a protective member of the first family.
“Sometimes it happens when Secret Service security measures are involved,” Stephens said.
During the brief prevention in Adelio, Lara Trump spoke with an organization of supporters and volunteers from President Trump and members of the Lumberton Region Chamber of Commerce, the main message they heard of wanting to bring the electorate to the polls.
Trump’s message and women’s project was also shared with others at the restaurant.
According to the organization’s website, this provides women with the means to re-elect President Donald Trump by sharing their reports and successes under the Trump administration. The president’s re-election promises greater economic opportunities for women, safer communities for our families, and common sense adequacy policies for generations to come.
Hardaway and Richardson are on the advisory board of Women for Trump.
“We’re still excited that members of Trump’s family circle are preventing robeson,” Stephens said. “Just a few weeks ago, Donald Trump Jr. made stops in Robeson County to reach Lumberton Municipal Airport. Now this week Lara Triumph.
RALEIGH – Nearly $1 million has been sent to survivors of nine public security officials who were killed in the line of duty, bills that were made imaginable through the law promoted by two lawmakers in the region.
State treasurer Dale R. Folwell and the Pension Systems Division on Tuesday announced bills under the Conner Act, which passed through the North Carolina General Assembly in 2019 as HB 283 and funded through Bill 425 this year.
The new investment measure of the law took effect on July 1 and is retroactive to July 1, 2016, meaning it will apply to eligible deaths occurring on or after that date, based on data from Folwell’s office.
Rep. Brenden Jones, representing district 46 in Columbus and Robeson counties, was the main sponsor of HB 283, while Senator Danny Britt Jr. , whose 13th district includes Columbus and Robeson counties, was the main sponsor of the Senate’s deputy bill, SB 306 Legislative leadership played a key role in approving unanimous bipartisan votes , 119-0 in the House and 46-0 in the Senate. The law is in honor of murdered patrolman Kevin Conner, who was killed by a traffic prevention regime in October. 2018.
In addition to offering additional payment to the families of public protection officers who died in the line of duty, HB 283 also increased the penalty of criminal for assaulting a police officer, probation officer, probation officer or emergency body of workers with a firearm or other weapon.
“Kevin has been an expensive friend for many years. We are pleased not only to have been able to honor their legacy, but also to have provided a significant budget to help other families who have suffered such a tragic loss,” Jones and Britt said in a statement. statement. ” We need you to know that those who have enjoyed will never be forgotten. The state of North Carolina will honor your memories and help our employees of correctional facilities and law enforcement. “
Bills were made through the Pension Systems Division as a component of their ongoing day-to-day work to manage death benefits, line-of-service retirement and disability systems for more than 35,000 public protection actively contracted through state and local governments in North Carolina, and more than 15,000 volunteer firefighters and rescue teams.
“As a former legislator, I recognize the concept that in the best world, legislation like this would not be necessary,” Said Treasurer Folwell.
LUMBERTON – Lumberton police are investigating a BP Travelers in the 1900 block of Carthage Road.
An officer dated 26 August indicated that a robbery investigation had been conducted.
A report in the Robeson Journal earlier this month about the incident contained erroneous data similar to Bobby Batten’s orrum.
The Robeson Journal has since closed due to its owner’s.
LUMBERTON – The Robeson County Public Schools Board of Education will approve or reject contracts from the Acting Superintendent of the School System and his Consultant at its October meeting, to the Public School District spokesperson
“The contracts for Ms. (Loistine) DeFreece and Dr. (Tony) Parker have been finalized and will be approved by the Board of Directors at the October Board of Education meeting,” Gordon Burnette said.
The assembly is scheduled for October 13. Details of the contracts were revealed to The Robesonian.
DeFreece was hired to serve as interim superintendent, with Tony Parker as a consultant, at the School Board assembly on September 8, the same assembly in which Superintendent Shanita Wooten fired. DeFreece hired to serve on a monthly basis until a full-time superintendent is hired.
In other school news, board members discuss Gov. Roy Cooper’s Plan A, which gives parents and guardians of K-5 students the opportunity to resume in-person learning on October 5. Cooper announced his education in the Plan A option on September 17. .
“Plan A continues to come with advocacy measures such as facial coverage for all students, teachers and staff, social distance, and symptom detection, but does not require schools to reduce the number of youth in the classroom,” according to the governor’s office.
Cooper announced in July that North Carolina school districts are located in the United States. They could plan A, B or C “according to their unique needs”. School districts were also required to offer a distance learning option for students, regardless of school. operational plan. Plan B is a hybrid style of face-to-face and distance learning.
The Robeson County school system voted on July 21 to adopt Plan C, the style of distance learning only during the first nine weeks of classes. .
At the Special Assembly of the Board of Education on 27 September, Board Chairman Craig Lowry said the resolution is not final.
“I know we approved of the return in January, but this is under consideration,” the president said at the meeting. “Things can change. “
Burnette said Wednesday that no updates or adjustments had been made to the school year to be reported, but that the paintings proceeded to return to class.
“We continue to collect data and explore all opportunities for our students to return to elegance to some extent,” Burnette said. “However, this will only happen when we can health and protect our students and workers in the district. “
LUMBERTON – The director of the Robeson County Board of Elections says she is adjusting after the state council replaced mail vote procedures in this fall election.
The new regulations passed Tuesday through the State Board of Elections require that if there is a gap in the voter’s application for a vote by mail or in the poll itself, the voter may obtain a curative certification of having to sign a healing document and a new poll.
“Instead of having to cancel one survey and factor another, we may simply send a curative affidavit, so that component does it for us,” Tina Bledsoe said.
Deficiencies in the survey included in the replacement are that the voter did not sign the voter’s certification or pointed it out on site, or the witness did not print his or her call or address, did not point it out or point to it on site.
This applies to defective ballots already won through the county board office, Bledsoe said. In such cases, the county council will contact the voter in writing, and by phone or email if available, so that the procedure has replaced and that the voter has the option to present a healing certificate instead of a new ballot.
The State Council also stated that a mail poll can be delivered to a polling station, once early single-stop voting begins on October 15, through a voter or close relative. county board office.
Bledsoe said the voting station coordinator will return all ballots delivered to the county election workplace at the end of polling day. From there, the procedure will be the same as for ballots won by mail or in the council workplace.
“We will treat them as returned, and we will make our initial mirror image in this, whether accepted or rejected,” Bledsoe said. “At the next absence board meeting, we will provide the ones we acquired on the date of the last absence meeting. . “
Approved ballots will be inserted into a tabbed device and the number of ballots placed on the device will be recorded. The effects of the vote itself will not be counted until polling day on 3 November. The Election Office will meet every Tuesday, before Election Day, starting next week, to review the ballots by mail.
County election councils will also settle for ballots by mail until November 12, nine days after polling day, if cancelled or delivered on polling day. Previously, ballots were not settled after November 6.
Although adjustments occurred after the absence procedure began, Bledsoe said the adjustments to the bylaws were not unusual and that his workplace used to manage them.
“We’re used to things becoming elections because there are trials,” he said. “As the processes take place, depending on whether the judges are on the whistleblower’s side or not, it affects the statutes they have sent us in the past. therefore, you will need to provide us with transparent guidance, according to what the law says after the trial, and then we have to apply that to our daily procedures and processes to achieve this.
“So we’re used to things becoming the electoral world. We wish they didn’t, but they do, so that’s just a component of the challenge and we have to get on with it. We don’t have a selection to meet yet. We do what we do. “(the state) tells us to do it. “
The adjustments came here as part of a legal agreement between the State Election Council and the Alliance of Retired Americans of North Carolina. The alliance had argued in court that past election regulations on mail voting were too restrictive for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Republican lawmakers say the Democratic-led State Election Council has “agreed” to weaken the statutes of absentee voting that had in the past been approved by the General Assembly. Republican lawmakers can simply sue the state to prevent new regulations from being applied.
The head of the state Senate, Phil Berger, and House Speaker Tim Moore, both Republicans, are the defendants on whom the consent order was born, said Pat Ryan, Berger’s spokesman, who will submit a brief to the court opposing the consent order. The National Election Council is also a defendant on the case and reached a “consent” agreement without notifying or even talking to the other defendants, Ryan said.
Berger and Moore’s lawyers sent a message to the court minutes after the settlement was announced.
The text reads in part: “Legislative defendants were not consulted or informed of this movement to obtain a conviction by consent before it was filed. We are in the process of reviewing this 42-page document and determining our official position, and we are asking the court not to issue an order until we have had the opportunity to review and let the court know if we intend to object.
Senator Ralph Hise, co-chairman of the Senate Election Committee, said the war will be the “decisive fight” for the 2020 election in North Carolina.
“All the tough players involved in this coluse agreement, from Governor Cooper to Attorney General (Josh) Stein and potential Supreme Court President Cherie Beasley, will appear in polls this year,” the Republican lawmaker said. “They’ve rewritten electoral law” while the elections are taking place. We are witnessing a slow-motion attack on North Carolina’s electoral integrity. “
Nearly 950,000 ballots were requested by mail in North Carolina for the November elections of more than 7 million registered voters, according to state data. Since white ballots began to be sent in early September, more than 153,000 were returned and accepted on Tuesday morning. ; approximately 1,700 ballots with incomplete witness information were returned, the maximum non-unusual explanation of why not accept ballots.
North Carolina is one of 8 states that require ballots by mail to be signed through a witness and/or a notary public, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. In the past, the state had reduced the witness requirement to a witness compared to two witnesses in past elections, because the electorate removed due to the COVID-19 pandemic potentially struggled to locate two witnesses.
Silas Chandler, 8, left, and Landry Bullard, 8, take a midday break from virtual learning gambling on the playground Wednesday at Northeast Park in Lumberton. after the state entered Phase 2. 5 of its recovery plan.
RED SPRINGS – Red Springs, 46, died in a space chimney Wednesday morning, Red Springs fire chief John Ammons said.
The first to respond were sent to a space at 67 Beck Street around 4:38 a. m. M. , said the leader of the chimney. When the firemen arrived at 4:45 a. m. M. , The “one-floor space with wooden structure” “completely concerned about the flames”, Ammons Two passenger cars parked in the backyard and a mobile home were also on fire.
The cars were parked near the space and the fireplace was lit a while after space, he said.
The body of a woman discovered in the house and will be sent to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of North Carolina in Raleigh for positive identification, said Red Springs police chief Brent Adkins. The woman’s call will not be made known until she is permanently identified.
The woman had lived in the house for about a year, along with other people, said Ammons, who was the only user in space at the time of the fire.
Jacothrough Jacobs, the owner’s son, suffered minor burns and a cut caused through the glass of a caravan window, Ammons said. Jacob suffered the cut by helping move the burning vehicle into the street. Service staff.
Firefighters couldn’t save the house, which also jammed the chimney a few months ago, Adkins said.
“We know there’s no power,” the police leader said.
In the past fire, the space suffered significant damage, fire chief Ammons said.
“I know they were going to rebuild the house, ” said Adkins.
The space is valued at $ 37,600, according to county tax records.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is with the investigation, which is still ongoing, Adkins said.
Staff from the Red Springs Police Department, the Shannon Fire Department, the Smiths Fire Department, the Burnt Swamp Filadelphus Fire Department and the Antioch Fire Department in southern Hoke County responded to the fire.
LUMBERTON – A 41-year-old Pembroke guy is wanted with rates similar to those of a shooting on September 19.
Joey Lee Maynor is wanted for attempted murder and attack with a fatal weapon with the intention of killing with serious injuries, according to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office.
Maynor is wanted through the Criminal Investigation Division of the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office.
Anyone with maynor whereabouts details call the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office at 910-671-3100 or 910-671-3170.
The following robberies reported Tuesday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office:
Mark Locklear, Elrod Road, Maxton; and Louise Britt, North Broadridge Road, Lumberton.
The following robberies reported Tuesday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office:
Bullock Sand, Leggett Road, Fairmont; and Lisa Locklear, Shannon Road, Lumberton.
PEMBROKE – The Lumbee tribe already has two winners in the November tribal council elections.
When the tribal electoral commission rated the candidates, it declared outgoing District 2 candidate Sharon Hunt and District 7 incumbent Alvin Mercer victorious because they opposed their re-election.
Thus, when the electorate passes to the polls on November 10, they will vote to have a seat in Districts 3, 5, 6, 11 and 12 of the Tribal Council.
Qualified District 3 applicants are titler James B. Hunt and challengers Lesaundri Hunt and Harold Smith. Robie Goins and Carrington Locklear are the applicants for District Five.
Richard Jones and Mikah Oxendine are qualified applicants for the District 6 Tribal Council race. Christopher Carter and Chocajuana Oxendine are the applicants for District 11.
Four applicants qualified to run for district 12: Katina Brayboy, Micheal Chavis II, Jerry Newman and Annie Taylor.
Tribal Council District 2 covers Back Swamp, Fairmont 1
The Tribal Electoral Council has established voting for the districts where the races are held.
District 3 is the Lumberton National Guard Armory, 4502 Fayetteville Road, Lumberton; Soaring Eagle Community Building, 442 Norment Road, Lumberton; and the Barker Ten Mile Community Building, 4823 Barker Ten Mile Road, Lumberton.
Votes can be in District Five of the Cherokee Community Building, Five739 Oxendine School Road in Maxton, and at the Two Streams Community Building, 16 Rosie’s Drive in Maxton.
District 6 polling stations are the O Agricultural Center. P. Owens, 455 Caton Road in Lumberton, and Pembroke Courthouse, 707 Union Chapel Road, Building A in Pembroke.
In District 11, polling stations are Hawkeye Sands Apartments, 5385 Red Springs Road in Red Springs, and Hawkeye Boys and Girls Club, 3066 Blue Springs Road in Red Springs.
There are 3 votes in District 12: Queheel Fire Department, 108 East Rockingham Road in Maxton, Evans Volunteer Fire Department, 3440 Elrod Road in Maxton, Lumbee Heritage Elders Court Common Area, 16220 Lumbee Heritage Land in Laurinburg.
Electoral colleges will be open on November 10 from 6:30 a. m. 7:30 p. m.
Tribal members can vote by ballot by mail. The deadline to request a vote by mail is October 9 at 5:00 p. m. Absentee ballot signatures will be reviewed at five o’clock on the afternoon of 6 November. The deadline to receive ballots by mail to the Electoral Commission is November 6 at five p. m. , and ballots will be counted at 1:00 p. m. on November 10.
Candidates with the maximum votes will be declared winners. Draws will be decided by a draw. An automatic count will be performed if the margin of victory is less than 1%. All other recounts will be at the discretion of the Electoral Committee upon receipt of a written request from a candidate.
The appeal of the effects of the vote shall be lodged with the Electoral Commission within five days of the election certification.
There will be no one-stop-shop vote. Tribe registration books will be closed on October 9.
FAIRMONT – The Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to ask the Lumber River Governing Council to locate a full-time municipal administrator.
The vote took place at an emergency face-to-face assembly at the Fairmont-South Robeson Heritage Center that lasted approximately 10 minutes, after Mayor Charles Townsend won a letter Monday from Acting Executive Chairman Ricky Harris in which Harris declared his goal. to resign from October 30.
Harris attended Tuesday’s meeting.
“I appreciate the opportunities that have been presented to me in my tenure with the City of Fairmont, as well as its recommendation and professional support. I wish you and the city the most productive good fortune in the future. If I can help with the transition, let me know, ” says Harris’s letter in part.
Townsend said Harris’ resignation was made because his source of income from the city would be his Social Security benefits.
“In what he does and draws, he would lose money,” Townsend said. “I don’t want to do this if you pay for it all. “
The movement calling on the Governing Council to conduct the studies brought with it Commissioner Terry Evans and the support of Commissioner Felecia McLean-Kesler.
Townsend said he would speak with David Richardson, EXECUTIVE Director of LRCOG, on Wednesday to start the process, who could appear before the commissioners at a later date to provide data on the investigation.
The Governing Council helped the city find a director in 2011 and 2015, said Jenny Larson, secretary and chief financial director. During this investigation, the resumes were sent to the city and recovered through LRCOG staff, who then conducted interviews.
“We pay a payment for being part of COG and that’s part of what they do for us,” Townsend said.
The procedure can be completed in 30 to 45 days, Larson said.
Commissioner Charles Kemp said a qualified municipal administrator cannot be discovered in such a short time.
“I just don’t think it can be done procedurally,” Kemp said.
But Townsend and Commissioner Mount McCallum said the procedure would be over until Harris left.
The city’s interim manager had planned to stay until September, and the city had planned to rent a replacement until October 1. But the search was delayed due to COVID-19, so Harris extended his stay.
But after talking to his accountant, Harris made the decision to resign, Larson said.
“That kind of force forced us to do it,” Townsend said of Harris’ resignation.
Harris decided to take over as interim director of the city at a commissioning assembly held on April 21 through a video conference. Harris took office after the city’s former director, Katrina Tatum, issued a statement on April 6 of her goal of retiring on May 7.
Harris retired as county director in December 2018, after serving for about six and a half years.
RALEIGH – Faculties, network schools, and universities interested in installing a host for the 2021 National Summer Transportation Institute program have until noon on October 2.
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Timothy Dial reported Thursday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office that he was the victim of a break-in on Tucker Road in Pembroke.
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LUMBERTON – The deadline for artists of all disciplines to apply for grants for their professional and artistic progression is Wednesday.
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LUMBERTON – A member of President Donald Trump’s family circle made a brief and unforeseen prevention Wednesday at a local restaurant.
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RALEIGH – Nearly $1 million has been sent to survivors of nine public safety officials who died in the line of duty, bills that were made imaginable through the law promoted by two lawmakers in the region.
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LUMBERTON – Lumberton police are investigating a BP Travelers in the 1900 block of Carthage Road.
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RALEIGH – North Carolina is already the school capital at home in the United States. Today, the appeal of this educational option is greater than ever, thanks not to the movements of its supporters, even to the antics of its opponents.
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LUMBERTON – The director of the Robeson County Board of Elections says she is adjusting after the state council replaced mail vote procedures in this fall election.
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LUMBERTON – The Robeson County Public Schools Board of Education will approve or deny contracts for the interim superintendent of the school formula and its representative at its October meeting, according to the public district spokesman.
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Silas Chandler, 8, left, and Landry Bullard, 8, take a midday break from virtual learning gambling on the playground Wednesday at Northeast Park in Lumberton. after the state entered Phase 2. 5 of its recovery plan.
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RED SPRINGS – Red Springs, 46, died in a space chimney Wednesday morning, Red Springs fire chief John Ammons said.
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LUMBERTON – A 41-year-old Pembroke guy is wanted with fees similar to those of a shooting on September 19.
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