LUMBERTON – As Hurricane Laura strengthened Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico, the typhoon’s monetary effect is spreading across the country, although there will be limited physical effect at the local level of the typhoon.
Laura is the time with the typhoon name to enter the Gulf of Mexico this week, and because of that, average fuel costs across the country have increased by several cents.
“With two storms threatening the Gulf Coast region, gas costs are likely to skyrocket,” said Tiffany Wright, aaa spokesman – The Auto Club Group in the Carolinas. “If platforms and platforms are offline for a long time, the source can be adjusted and costs may be affected.”
AAA reported that it was tracking the gas market in the wake of Tropical Storm Marco and when Hurricane Laura made landfall, which is expected Wednesday night or Thursday morning.
“While gas inventories remain at a healthy level, incremental increases can be imagined if those storms cause damage that results in long-term effects on oil rigs, refineries or the fuel supply chain as a whole,” reads aaa.
North Carolina’s average value for a gallon of gasoline rose 7 cents this week to $2.07. The South Carolina average rose to $1.95, consistent with the gallon. The national average is $2.20, which expands to 3 cents per week.
Hurricane Laura Wednesday became “an incredibly damaging category four hurricane,” according to the National Hurricane Center.
Laura is expected to strike overnight along the Louisiana-Texas border. Meteorologists warn of “catastrophic waves of typhoons, excessive winds and flash floods” and 20 feet of typhoon storm surges.
The hurricane is expected to succeed on land with sustained winds of 145 mph, but could weaken long before landing.
According to the national hurricane center’s most recent forecasts, Hurricane Laura makes a sharp turn east after making landfall. The turn will point to southern Ohio, Kentucky and northern Tennessee. The National Hurricane Center hopes North Carolina won’t see rain from the storm’s wreckage.
Given the lack of rain in the forecast for next week, the Lumber River water point is expected to fall below the even marginal flood point on Thursday and remain there in the near future. The existing water point of the river is 12.2 feet, which corresponds to the point of action of the flood. The river’s flood point is thirteen feet.
The National Weather Service predicts that the level of the Lumber River will be minimized this week before receiving the precipitation forecast by the end of next week. The water point is expected to drop to 10 feet on Monday.
A gift planned for Thursday at St. Pauls High School
COVID reaction creates options
St. Pauls – Citizens of the city can get food and hygiene items on Thursday on a safe meal at St. Pauls High School.
The Robeson County church and community center will begin distribution at 1:30 p.m. in the school parking lot at 648 N. Old Stage Road. Distribution will be made on a first-come, first-served basis.
Those who provide must bring identity proving their residence.
The following thefts reported Tuesday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office:
Garrison Britt, East Davis Road, Fairmont; Samantha Jones, Wire Grass Road, Lumberton; Davis Trucking, Kenric Road, Lumberton; and Derek Dudney, Watts Road, Lumberton.
The following thefts reported Tuesday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office:
Rebecca Bullard, Oxendine School Road, Maxton; Anthony Jacobs, Legend Drive, Lumberton; and Angel McCall, Regan Church Road, Lumberton.
LUMBERTON – If a Robeson County Sheriff’s deputy calls to ask for Social Security information, it’s likely to be a scam, Sheriff Burnis Wilkins said.
The Robeson County Sheriff’s Office learned Tuesday of a scam in which a user calls someone to the sheriff’s workplace line, 910-671-3100, and claims to be an assistant sheriff, including a call from a sheriff’s deputy in some cases.
“They continue to say that their Social Security number is attached to the arrest warrants issued on the record that require attention,” Wilkins said.
The user then requests a credit card to delete the order, he said.
“Members would not call you to tell you that your Social Security number is attached to existing mandates and will not ask you to pay in cash under any circumstances. We have a guarantee department that would come to you or touch it in such a way that there is no doubt that you are a real law enforcement officer,” Wilkins said.
The scammer appears to have used an app to disguise his number, Wilkins said.
“Please share this message and tell seniors to simply hang up calls like this. Unfortunately, some have fallen into the trap of this scam and others because those heartless criminals attack our elders,” the sheriff said.
“If you have any questions about a sheriff’s assistant, 910-671-3170 for verification or to speak with a service supervisor. Thank you,” he added.
West Shore Homes shower and bathroom installer Juan Duran, 24, loaded used fabrics in a bathroom renovation assignment at a Rosewood Drive home in Lumberton in his pickup truck on Tuesday. The Wilmington-based company plans to return on Wednesday to the complete transformation of the house bathroom.
LUMBERTON – Staff from the University of North Carolina’s Department of Music at Pembroke mourn the loss of a student who died Monday morning in a turn of traffic fate in N.C.71.
Julia Dawn Merritt, who specializes in music, will be remembered for her kindness, smile and determination towards the art of music, José Rivera, associate professor and choral music coordinator of the UNCP music school program.
“She’s just a user who enjoyed life,” she said.
And his love of life radiated in his smile, Rivera said. Merritt had a great reputation and was appreciated by his peers.
“Our young people are very sad,” he says.
But Rivera encourages academics to the moments they shared with Merritt and never take the time they spend with others for granted.
“We have to appreciate the time with the other people we know because we don’t know how long it will last,” Rivera said.
Merritt has shown a lot of progress in his first year of school because he has gained confidence in his voice, he said.
He agreed to do a songwriter for about 3 years.
“She’s developing like a wonderful musician,” said Jaeyoon Kim, associate professor of voice and choir.
He described Merritt as an intelligent and educated student.
Merritt was promising when he entered his fifth semester with Pembroke Singers, the college choir, which Kim conducts.
“We will miss her very much,” she said on behalf of the choir members.
Aaron Vandermeer, president of the music branch, said the branch would miss Merritt’s presence and contribution.
“She had a brilliant mind, and you know, we’re going to miss her a lot,” Vandermeer said.
The music branch plans to honor Merritt’s reminiscence by exploring a scholarship on his behalf, holding a memorial concert in his honor, and a candlelight vigil, Vandermeer said.
The memorial concert will be recorded, produced and broadcast online, he said. Information about online vigil, which will allow many others to attend despite COVID-19 restrictions, will also be published shortly.
Rivera recalls the joy of training Merritt and watching her share her upbringing with others as she ran as co-director of the Children’s Choir of the Laurinburg Presbyterian Church, which she also attends.
Merritt spent two years in the church to help lead the choir, and its effect has had an effect on the congregation and the community, said the Rev. W. Robert Martin III, the church’s senior pastor.
“It was enjoyed by the young and literally enjoyed by everyone in the congregation,” Martin said. “We are suffering losses.”
“His kind and gentle soul and disposition are qualities that Merritt will remember, ” he said.
“It’s a huge loss to us, ” he said. “I know it’s an unbearable loss to the family, but I’m grateful to have spent time with them.”
The 20-year-old died Monday morning in a head-on collision at NC 71 about 3 miles south of Red Springs when her 2008 Honda collided with a 2012 Chrysler passenger in the opposite direction led by John Garrett Broady Jr., 40. Rockingham, the sergeant said. James McVicker of the State Highway Patrol.
The turn of fate occurred when Merritt’s vehicle left the road on the right, attempted to enter the road and crossed to the left of the centre line. Merritt died at the site and Broady was transferred to an undisclosed hospital, where he was indexed in solid state.
LUMBERTON – Public school leaders, state legislators and representatives of communications corporations met Tuesday to take the “first step” toward offering broadband in Robeson County.
Some members joined the user and others through the video at the assembly building the Robeson County Public Schools District Headquarters on Hargrave Street.
“We look to see what can be done with short-term and long-term broadband in the future,” said Craig Lowry, chairman of the Board of Education at PSRC.
Discussions about the passage of underground cable communities were on the table, but it will take time, Lowry said.
“It’s just a long-phase plan that wants to be addressed,” said Board Member Mike Smith.
This plan requires action, Kris Ward, Director of Business Development at Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation.
“ATMC and LREMC are looking for opportunities to help each other get fiber optic resources for the county’s most deprived rural areas. Today’s assembly is a smart first step in what will be a long journey,” Ward said. “ATMC recognizes that we have smart representatives in Raleigh, such as Senator (Danny) Britt, representatives (Brenden) Jones and (Charles) Graham, all of whom know that the state’s most vulnerable academics in rural spaces simply cannot be well informed without affordable home broadband service.”
Representative Graham stated that the factor involved “quality of life” and “equality with public education.”
“From a legislative point of view, we are doing it,” Graham said.
Legislation was passed that provides incentives for companies to provide assistance to the school formula, he said. The legislature also said that developing subsidies for tech-powered rural economies, or GREAT, announced on August 19 through Gov. Roy Cooper, have given a major boost to efforts to provide citizens in every corner of County InternetArray ATMC, earned $2.5 million in EXCELLENT investment to expand Internet service to rural communities in Robeson and Robeson counties.
“We know it’s not a one-year procedure, it’s a multi-year subsidy procedure,” Graham said.
And the internet broadcasting procedure in Robeson County is indicted, said Gordon Burnette, PSRC spokesman. By some estimates, the cost of providing broadband connectivity in some rural areas of the county is more than $50 million.
The school formula plans to deploy 39 school buses with mobile phones into communities to allow young people to access the Internet. The school formula is waiting for some hot spots and other technologies to be delivered before buses begin the parking and learning program. Locations where parents can now park and Wi-Fi can be found on the PSRC website.
“We will continue to provide our students with generation and Internet in all school parking lots, our learning parks and with the kind of assistance from our network partners,” Burnette said.
The North Carolina Office of Broadband Infrastructure conducts surveys to gather knowledge about Internet connectivity through N.C. Knowledge will identify spaces that want connectivity.
The survey can be conducted in www.ncbroadband.gov/broadband-nc/north-carolina-broadband-survey.
“COVID has recently brought the lack of broadband in rural areas to the forefront, however this has been a challenge for more than two decades,” said Ward of ATMC. “It will take public and personal partnerships so that our young people are not left behind.”
RALEIGH – Many will commemorate Wednesday the anniversary of the passage of the Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
This year’s birthday party is attractive because it is the centenary of the 1920 ratification of the amendment that granted women the right to vote. Under the leadership of New York Rep. Bella Abzug in 1971 and approved in 1973, the United States Congress designated August 26 as Women’s Equality Day.
The Robeson County Democrat took a photo Saturday in downtown Lumberton’s square in commemoration of the centenary celebration. The group’s president and founder, Caroline Sumter, said the day marked a turning point in history.
“Until a hundred years ago, a maximum of countries denied a maximum of their other people the right to vote,” Sumpter said Tuesday.
She believes that the ability to vote is the “cornerstone of our democracy” and advocates that all citizens have the right to vote and that women have all the opportunities that their male counterparts have if they wish.
“For me, women’s equality celebrates the achievements of women’s rights and reminds us of the demanding situations women face on a daily basis,” she said. “I can’t wait for everyone to be the same. Without taking anything from our male counterparts, but knowing that if women decide to sit at the table, it will be for them to have it on the table.
Wendy Pridgen, president and founder of the Robeson County Republican Women’s Club, said Women’s Equality Day is a time to reflect on the demanding situations they face in their quest for the right to vote.
“By celebrating the centenary of women’s right to vote, I honor the sacrifices made through those who fought for this right,” Pridgen said.
With the amendment, more women have the opportunity to run and serve, and they are congratulated, Pridgen said.
“I’m grateful for your great achievement,” he said.
The amendment is the culmination of a large nonviolent motion for women’s civil rights that officially began in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, at the first world conference on women’s rights, according to the National Women’s History Alliance.
“The Women’s Equality Day birthday party not only commemorates the adoption of the 19th Amendment, but also draws attention to women’s ongoing efforts to promote total equality. Workplaces, libraries, organizations and public establishments are now participating in Women’s Equality Day programs, exhibitions and activities video screenings or other activities,” read in part from the Alliance.
The 1973 Congressional Joint Solution reads:
“CONSIDERING that women in the United States have been treated as second-class citizens and have not had all the rights and privileges, public or private, legal or institutional, that male citizens of the United States have;
and CONSIDERING that women in the United States have come to a combination that these rights and privileges are equally available to all citizens, regardless of gender;
and CONSIDERING that the United States designated on 26 August, the anniversary of the certification of the Nineteenth Amendment, as a symbol of the ongoing struggle for equivalent rights;
and CONSIDERING that women in the United States are praised and supported in their organizations and activities,
NOW, BY TRIAL, IT IS RESOLVED, the Assembly of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress, that on August 26 of both a year be designated as Women’s Equality Day, and that the President be legal and invited to factor proclamation of both one and two years in commemoration of that day in 1920 , in which American women first obtained the right to vote. Array and on this day in 1970, a national demonstration for women’s rights was held.
LUMBERTON – Arrested Potential Inc. has planned an e-book gift for children Little Red Wagon on Wheels starting at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
It will be at Turner Terrace Community Center, 106 Spruce Street, Lumberton.
Arrested Potential Inc. will distribute three hundred books and beverages, nutritional snacks and backpacks to five- to nine-year-olds living in The Turner Terrace Public Development.
The books are donated through the Lisa Libraries Foundation in Kingston, New York, and Arrested Potential, Inc. Partners, which, according to its website, is a non-profit organization committed to the lives of youth and young adults, intellectually and morally. . Array by implementing state-of-the-art programs.
Turner Terrace Community Center will locate the arrested Potential, Inc. computer lab and the children’s center at risk when Gov. Roy Cooper lifts restrictions on public meetings, according to Gene Jones, the nonprofit’s chief executive.
The following thefts reported Monday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office:
Marty Willis, Maverick Road, Lumberton; Dyquan Morris, prom Vernons Way, Fairmont; Mortgage Vanderbilt, Cheyenne Drive, Fairmont; and Barbara Bell, Stanton Road, Maxton.
The following thefts reported Monday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office:
U-Haul, North Carolina, Shannon; James Lamb, South Creek Road, Orrum; and Miranda Porter, N.C.130 East, Orrum.
St. PAULS – The police branch here is asking city citizens to sign up for a new neighborhood surveillance program.
Volunteers will be invited to attend an assembly consistent with the month at the City Council. Training will be provided.
Anyone volunteering should contact the police at (910) 865-5155.
LUMBERTON – The Lumberton City Council may vote to condemn the former Ramada Inn in its assembly on Wednesday and pave the way for the demolition of construction that has not been used for approximately 4 years.
The 73,000-square-foot hotel resolution on Kahn Drive, visual from Roberts Avenue and Interstate 95, comes after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development rejected research conducted in the city.
“It will be a great project, so if the council makes the decision to condemn the building, it will have to approve the budget to dismantle it,” Horne said. “We hope to act temporarily on this and leave it blank as well.”
The federal agency’s provisions for the demolition and reconstruction of assets required assets to be placed outdoors on a 100-year floodplain. The Ramada Inn site is located on an alluvial plain, which led to the allocation wasting the $400,000 general network progression grant approved across the state.
The charge of demolishing construction fell only in the city after the loss of grant cash and efforts for other state and national investment resources failed.
Horne stated in the past that the estimated demolition fee includes $150,000 in landfill charges, $125,000 for asbestos relief and more than $100,000 for demolishing the building.
If the conviction is approved next week through the town hall, the city will leave the property blank. Before anything can be built on the property, the site will have to rise two feet above the fundamental elevation of the flood to comply with the city’s ordinances, Horne said.
Harry Jhala of Lumberton bought the assets in 2012. He said he planned to build two hotels and three restaurants on site.
Plywood placed the first construction land outdoors before this year to help protect the old hotel from vandalism and prevent other homeless people from entering construction.
The hotel, which spans more than five acres, has been deserted since it flooded with Hurricane Matthew in October 2016.
FAIRMONT – “It’s not a protest, it’s a business of life.”
Reverend Kerry Revels used those words to describe a prayer march in Fairmont that attracted about a hundred participants on Saturday. Revels and nine other pastors preached the occasion as other participants walked behind them. The march began at the Fairmont Police Department and ended there with a prayer. The address took Main Street participants to Walnut and Pine streets and then back to the police department.
Revels is the associate shepherd of the mountain. Hebron Holiness Church in Maxton. But he seeks to spread the gospel message in the county, Revels said. Through faith, others can find freedom, truth, life, and joy, he said.
“The ministry deserves to start at home,” Revels said.
Revels participated in the Lumberton Prayer March on July 20, but described the March in Fairmont as a “more intimate” delight because the network members were concerned and joined the cult. Some other people left their homes to look and respond. A woman joined the organization on Walnut Street.
“She began to worship God in the middle of the street, ” said Revels.
He described the woman’s reaction as a hard experience.
“She’s a component of the march, ” said Revels.
Residents gave the impression of being “very moved” through the prayer march, and he believes the occasion brought a “strong message of hope,” Revels said.
“We believe it was a very successful and very successful occasion,” said Reverend Brent Chavis, who led the occasion and helped organize the Lumberton Prayer March.
Carrie Jacobs, who attended the prayer march with other members of the Assembly of God of Pembroke, said she was affected by the event.
“It was a very humiliating delight to see other people renting and worshipping the 4 walls of the church outdoors,” he says. “People who didn’t come to church can just hear the preaching of the catwalk.”
Chavis said he was looking for more churches to get involved. Similar occasions are planned in other municipalities in the county.
“We can end up this way, ” said Chavis.
The purpose is to serve the members of the network and unite them to God, he said.
Fairmont police chief Jon Edwards said the branch revered escorting participants around the city.
“It’s great to see the network come together,” he said. “The Fairmont Police Department is proud to be concerned on such a positive occasion that it saw a desire for prayer in today’s dubious times.”
The organization is making plans for a march 19-25 tent revival event at Lumberton, but is still working to locate a location, Chavis said. Your prayer march will take position until after waking.
Anyone interested in sometimes long-term occasions can contact Chavis at [email protected].
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