LUMBERTON – A 38-year-old Rowland guy was flown to a hospital after a one-vehicle crash Sunday night near Walmart in Pembroke.
Cedric Montreal McArthur was injured after the 2016 Harley Davidson motorcycle driving east at N.C.711 in Pembroke hit a median concrete around 8:16 p.m., the sergeant said. M.v. Strickland, with the State Highway Patrol. McArthur’s motorcycle was flipped several times before being ejected. McArthur arrived here to rest in the westbound lane and the motorcycle in the eastbound lane.
McArthur was transferred by helicopter to Grand Strand Medical Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Strickland said. No updates on his condition would be received on Monday afternoon.
“He drove cfA and drove reckless and reckless,” Strickland said. “Its speed estimated at 60 (mph) in an area of 35 (mph)”.
No one else was injured in the accident.
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LUMBERTON – A 27-year-old Lumberton guy was shot dead Friday in an armed robbery in which the victim’s vehicle was stolen, according to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office.
Members responded at approximately 7:44 p.m. on Bunny Trail Road on Lumberton to report a user’s robbery and shooting, according to the sheriff’s office. Tyron Christopher Melton Jr., had been transferred to Southeastern Regional Medical Center through a circle of relatives driving a utility vehicle before the agents arrived. Melton later died of his injuries in the hospital.
Investigators are looking for a white 2011 four-door Mercedes Benz E350 that was stolen from Melton during the robbery. The license plate of the vehicle in North Carolina is HHT8236.
“The suspects were possibly traveling in a four-door burgundy van before the robbery,” according to the sheriff’s office.
No description of the suspects was provided.
The sheriff’s murder department is investigating this case.
Anyone with more information about the case calls the Homicide Division at 910-671-3100 or 910-671-3170.
I write this with plenty of combined feelings. On Tuesday, the fair’s board of directors convened a special assembly to determine whether there would be a Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair this year. After months of coming and going (and I mean months), the d board would be more productive not to open the fair this year.
On the one hand, I congratulate board members for thinking about the fitness and well-being of the more than 70,000 people attending our nine-day program. Not to mention the physical condition and well-being of many other people who paint with the carnival and volunteer on the fair council. It’s a complicated and courageous resolution for our community.
On the other hand, I’m unhappy. Unfortunately, we won’t have a chance that in recent years has helped combine our network paints after hurricanes. Sad for our suppliers, entertainment operators and carnival who desperately want the business. Sad for our artisans, bakers and antiques creditors who paint circulars all year round to make items that deserve to be judged by a blue ribbon. Above all, I feel unhappy for our farmers and our children. The fair celebrates what makes Robeson County great, the economic backbone of networked paintings and is agriculture. This gives us the opportunity to teach other young people about animal husbandry, bakery and handicrafts, where agriculture is the common thread. I’m sad because we’ll all miss the laughter, the lights, the food and the fun of the family circle.
Did you know that agricultural fairs are cautiously generating about $24 million a year in North Carolina? That’s according to Kevin Hardison of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, who favors estimating those figures.
So what? How’s that? Well, think about the Robeson County Fair. Maybe what you like to do best is buy a green cabbage or ribs sandwich at one of the churches that raise money by promoting food at the fair. Think nonprofits like the Robeson County Domestic Violence Center and United Way that host fundraising events at the fair. Think of organizations that raise cash at the fair to care for members of our community. Would you willingly settle for the money you spend at the fair (entry of $8 – $25 orchestra – $20 to eat – about $53, according to what was agreed with the son) and give it to one of those teams in the hope that they can continue to help the community? ?
Not organizing a fair is devastating in many tactics for our community. However, organize a fair and create an occasion when other people can simply get sick, spread the virus and lose their lives … to other people, it’s a no-brainer. We need you to come back alive and be part of the fair in 2021. We need you to be healthy, and this year doesn’t mean anything fair. But wait, because I have a feeling that the 2021 fair will be bigger, brighter, bigger and safer than ever. After all, we have a little more time to get there and do it properly. We will miss him at this year’s fair, however, we look forward to seeing him in 2021.
LUMBERTON – Robeson County Public Schools is asking members of the public to review adjustments to the school system’s application to invest in the Disability Education Act for the 2019-2020 school year.
The Disability Education Bill (IDEA-Part B, Public Law 108.446) describes special education formulas for which the school formula seeks federal funding. Members of the public are encouraged to review adjustments to the assignment and comment on the implementation of special education under the federal program the week of August 14-18.
Comments can be made by contacting the Director of Exceptional Children, Latonya Burney, at 910-671-6000, ext. 3363 or send an email to [email protected]. Burney’s is located at number one hundred Hargrave St. in Lumberton.
All comments will be prior to the submission of the amended assignment to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in Raleigh.
RED SPRINGS – The municipal secretary obtained certification from the International Institute of Municipal Secretaries, Inc. for her educational efforts and contribution to local government.
Barbara McColl was named Certified Municipal Secretary, who is given to municipal secretaries who meet “demanding educational requirements” and make contributions to her local government, network and state, according to Stephanie Carouthers Kelly, president of the IIMC.
“Given the speed and drastic nature of current changes, lifelong learning is not only desirable, it is mandatory that all local governments keep up with the developing demands and conversion desires of the citizens we serve. Your city can be very proud of Barbara’s educational achievement and achievement of this milestone,” Kelly said in a message sent to the city on Monday.
Mayor Ed Henderson, speaking on behalf of the Red Springs Board of Commissioners, congratulated McColl on his achievement.
“We are proud of her. He worked hard to get there,” Henderson said. “I think this is an example of professionalism that we seek to put in position for the city.”
The IIMC is a non-profit settlement founded in 1947 that seeks to “promote ongoing education and certification through universities and school institutes,” according to the Institute’s website. The global organization responds to the wishes of municipal secretaries, secretaries, treasurers and registrars, among others.
The Institute also provides networking facilities as it seeks educational opportunities and career progress for its 14,000 members in the United States, Canada and 15 other countries, Kelly said.
FAYETTEVILLE – A robeson county native has been elected vice president of the National Association of State Homes for Veterans.
Whitney Bell, director of the North Carolina State Veterans Household-Fayetteville, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He has worked for the North Carolina State Veterans Household-Fayetteville for the age of 20.
“In fact, I am honored to serve the Association in this capacity and look forward,” Bell said.
Bell has worked at the State Veterans Home for more than 10 years as Summer Conference President, Finance Chairman, Quality Improvement Committee Member, and Director of the Southern Region.
PEMBROKE – Candidates for a seat at the Lumbee Tribal Council may begin running on August 24 for the November 10 election.
The archive era will end at five o’clock in the afternoon. September 4, according to the Tribal Electoral Council. The deposit payment is $2.50. Election seats are seats in districts 2, 3, five, 6, 7, 11 and 12. Applicants must meet age and registration needs and have lived in the district for at least 30 days.
Polling stations will be open on November 10 from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The vote has not yet been determined.
Tribal members can vote by mail. Voters can request a vote by mail from September 14 to 5 p.m. October 9. Signatures of absentee ballots shall be checked at 5pm. November 6. The deadline for receiving ballots by mail on the Electoral Commission is five in the afternoon. November 6 and ballots will be counted at 1:00 p.m. November 10.
Candidates with the maximum votes will be declared winners. The 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 certification of the election.
There will be no one-stop vote. Tribe registration books will be closed on October 9.
An assembly with applicants is scheduled for September 14. The venue for this occasion will be announced at a later date.
Tribal Council District 2 covers Back Swamp, Fairmont 1-2 and Smyrna. District 3 includes West Howellsville and all Lumberton constituencies. District five includes Oxendine and Prospect; District 6, Raft Swamp and North Pembroke; District 7, South Pembroke and Union; District 11, Hoke County; 12th, County Scotland, Maxton and Alfordsville.
LUMBERTON – The Robeson County Board of Commissioners, the Maxton Board of Commissioners, the Fairmont Board of Commissioners and the Lumbee Tribal Council are scheduled to meet the week.
The Robeson County Board of Commissioners meets at 6:00 p.m. Monday via teleconference. Members of the public can attend by dialing 978-990-5000 and access code 687264.
Those interested in participating in the Assembly’s Public Comments segment email their comments to [email protected] by 3 p.m. Monday. Comments should come with a full call and be limited to 500 words or less.
Problems through the commissioners are the passage of an amendment order for the terminal structure of Bob Snuck, director of Lumberton Regional Airport, and a request from the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office to apply for an Edward Byrne Memorial 2020 Judicial Assistance Grant.
The Maxton Board of Commissioners will meet in user at 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 201 McCaskill Ave.
Among the pieces to be discussed at the assembly was a $12,455 budget amendment for the Maxton Police Department to allocate cash from the forfeiture account; adoption of the COVID-19 payment plan; a solution to adopt a regional threat mitigation plan for Bladen, Columbus and Robeson counties; applicants for the city planning and zoning council and the CDBG housing committee.
Also on Tuesday, the Fairmont Board of Commissioners will meet at 6 p.m. Fairmont-South Robeson Heritage Center, at 207 S. Main St.
The topics to be discussed come with the achievements and goals of Bill Lester of LKC Engineering; A solution to apply for a Water AIA grant; a solution to adopt the Baden, Columbus and Robeson Risk Mitigation Plan; and a payment schedule to rate $10 for more trash cans.
On Thursday, the Lumbee Tribal Council will hold its monthly assembly from 6:30 p.m.
The assembly will be broadcast live on the tribe’s website in www.lumbeetribe.com. Click “Live Streaming” to view the montage.
Pandora will be available for adoption at the Robeson County Animal Protective Society. Pandora is about 3 months old. It looks like a lynx and you hear it when you need attention. You have received your vaccinations and will present a voucher for the cost of a sterilization procedure. Call 910-738-8282 or email [email protected] to request an adoption. The Animal Protective Society is located at 3180 West Fifth St. in Lumberton.
LUMBERTON – Annette Wallwork hopes to create a stir in downtown Lumberton.
She and her husband, Phillip, are in the final stages of opening the Happenings On Elm wine shop which, like her name, will be at 605 N. Elm St.
The vineyard will also serve as a place to eat and sell wine and artwork created through artists.
“I enjoyed wine and design on the beach and enjoyed portraying and drinking wine,” Annette said. “We made the decision to make a mixture because no one has the right wine and no one gives wine and paint.”
Annette, the owner, proposed in June 2019 the concept of opening the wine and art store after the closure of the Lowes Food store, which she said featured a “great variety of wines”. Later, he discovered the area that would be his concept.
“It happened a little, ” said Annette.
The 3,000-square-foot building, first built in 1937, was in “bad condition” when it first purchased the site last summer. The area had rotten wood, cracked floors and plaster falling from the walls. The Wallworks described the procedure for getting to where it is now as “long, complicated and expensive.”
“There had been a couple of things here, but there’s essentially been nothing here for 10 years, so construction is deteriorating,” Phillip said.
“There’s a lot of trouble with that, ” said Annette.
Serious renovations in the area began in early December, with the help of Annette’s brother, Ed Bruce. But COVID-19 slowed down the procedure, Phillip said.
However, Annette saw the prospect of the post, while few others saw it. He said he fell in love with the arched windows and the picturesque surroundings of the building.
Many of his concepts evolved by talking to shop owners in other downtown neighborhoods, such as Little Washington, which had old shops, restaurants and art stores.
The interior of Elm Street now features Tuscan-style walls with concrete floors painted through local artist Nila Chamberlain.
The domain includes a wine bar, pocket rooms that will serve as assembly venues for small clubs, a kitchen, a mastery of occasions and a study. Each room will have a lively call through other wines, such as the Pinot Grigio, Merlot and Sommelier rooms.
Annette’s love and wisdom for wine comes from her late uncle David Simpson, who sold wine in Southern California before moving to Lumberton.
Annette said that as a child, she spent a lot of time in Southern California, living there in a moment. As an adult, she had the opportunity to move to Napa Valley and Sanoma. Annette said that when she visited her uncle, he was sure that she and her circle of relatives would feel special when they found out about the local wine.
“He would have been so proud of that, ” Annette.
He brought her to Napa and Sanoma, and that’s why we call it Napa Valley and Sanoma,” Phillip said.
Artworks, whether watercolors, steel sculptures or even ceramics, will be placed in the building so that they can be seen and potentially purchased through customers, an option an annette thought was the key to the new company.
“There’s no smart position in Lumberton for artists to sell their work,” Annette said.
Annette plans to offer lunch and dinner at the restaurant and Brunch on Saturday “with mimosas all day”.
Happenings On Elm is in its final stages of opening, and with this comes concern and uncertainty with the start of a new business, the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions. But the couple is convinced it will work and is determined to do their part to revitalize downtown Lumberton.
“We hope there will be more business downtown to revitalize the center,” Annette said. “We are afraid, but the reaction we have from everyone is very positive and we feel that because we are exclusive compared to anything else, it will be a position that everyone will have to come to.”
“We are the ones who will make it.”
Phillip, who will be the director, said that opening a company to a capacity of 50% can simply paint in his favor regarding staffing and managing operational issues.
“This put us in a better position by the time we can move on a giant scale, and hopefully we can soon move on a giant scale,” he said.
Annette said the final steps come with the approval of the fitness department, hiring and creating distributors.
“It’s been a challenge, but the effects of the stage and the existing scenario are incredible,” Phillip said. “It’s anything to see what she saw happen a year ago. It’s pretty special.”
Alicia Jackson reported Thursday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office that she was the victim of a break-in on Lake Drive in Lumberton.
Knowledge Lewis reported Thursday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office that he assaulted someone with a gun on North Alford Road in St. Pauls.
The following thefts reported Thursday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office:
Taylor Townsend, Windsor Road, Lumberton; Tana Mercer, Rolling Lane, Lumberton; and Nicholas Locklear, Rennert Road, Shannon.
Aliyah Hunt, of Leggett Road in Fairmont, reported Thursday to the Lumberton Police Department that it stole ice cream from the Sun-Do 711 fuel station at 1213 Country Club Road in Lumberton.
FAIRMONT – An 18-year-old Fairmont woman and two minors were arrested today after breaking into an open-air ATM at a Thompson Street bank, according to Fairmont police.
Zion Ray is charged with security, conspiracy to dedicate a security operation and ownership of a break-in tools, according to the Fairmont Police Department. Ray was placed in the Robeson County detention center on a $10,000 security bond.
Two men, aged 16 and 17, were also charged in the incident, who were handed over to their parents, according to the police department. The miners had left the space at night while their parents or guardians were working. Requests from minors will be received for the same fees that oppose Ray for his participation in the incident.
The names of minors were disclosed because of their age.
Officers responded to an alarm at BB-T bank around five a.m. on Friday, according to the police department. An officer saw that the ATM front was open and that a vehicle was parked.
Ray and the miners were the vehicle when they were arrested. Officers also discovered an AR-15 rifle in the vehicle.
“Inside the vehicle were equipment that had been used to enter the ATM, as well as documents that had been disposed of from the internal cashier. The suspects had not been to access the post where the cash is stored inside the ATM,” according to the police department.
Anyone with more information about the incident calls the Fairmont Police Department at 910-628-9766 or 910-628-5115.
St. PAULS – Commissioners voted Thursday to refinance a loan in the chimney branch building, allowing the city to repay it 15 years earlier.
The Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to settle for a refinancing plan through First Bank that will allow it to total the $160,000 of a $189,974 loan to build the St. Pauls Fire Department building. The refinancing plan allows invoices for more than 10 years at an interest rate of 2.69%.
“We’re shortening the payment in 15 years and saving $90,000 in interest,” said Interim Mayor Evans Jackson, who is St. Paul’s fire chief.
Commissioners also learned Thursday that the city had cash from the Golden LEAF Foundation that could begin paying for the first phase of a stormwater master plan. The first phase is to expand a map of the city’s drainage system.
“We have $100,000 to do that,” city manager Rodney Johnson said.
The next step is to hire an engineer to start mapping the project, he said.
In some cases, commissioners voted 5-1 to pass a policy setting rules for St. Paul police officers driving their cars home.
The policy, which will take effect on September 1, will not allow officials living more than 20 miles from the police branch to drive their cars home, police chief Steve Dollinger said. In addition, officials will have to serve at least six months in the police force before they are allowed to drive their vehicle home.
“It would probably have no effect on the budget,” Dollinger said.
The branch’s policy is to be more competitive in hiring new agents, he said.
Commissioner Jerry Quick voted no.
“I just don’t agree to do that,” Quick said.
Instead, the city deserves to concentrate and spend cash on a new water treatment plant, he said.
Also thursday, commissioners voted to make $5,000 taxable for the value of the sale of an asset on Chapel Street.
The assets had been indexed for $7,000, but no offer was received, Johnson said.
Commissioners also heard Cynthia Evans, a city resident, whose one-wide cell home was seriously damaged by Hurricane Matthew. Evans qualified for space replacement through ReBuild N.C. and the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resilience, but its zoning district does not allow single-width cell homes.
Evans’ belongings are in garage containers and can no longer be at home.
“She moved house right now,” said Jannah Gould of Thompson Construction Group.
Gould said the procedure was complicated because the city’s online page does not include any updated zoning information. He asked whether applying a double width to assets would be a quicker solution to the problem.
Acting Mayor Jackson said this is the “fastest and most effective way” to address the housing problem.
Commissioner Deborah Inman apologized to Gould for communication problems of zoning. The city is “still under construction,” he said.
The Board of Commissioners also suggested June Wang, owner of the former Carolina Mills construction, consult with a contractor on repairing the construction and updating the code. The construction, located at 201 E. Armfield Street, will feature sprinkler and alarm systems as well as maintenance to address protection issues.
“We’ve been doing this for four years,” Mayor Elbert Gibson said.
Wang said he was running to solve the problems, but he needed more time.
“We’re not going to settle for excuses or contracts that lead nowhere,” Evans said.
The owner of the company will continue to pay the prices of violating the city code until appropriate action is taken.
Elizabeth Street’s Rose Ann Hilburn told commissioners that she got involved on the ground next to her home where the city throws debris from the sweepers. He is concerned about his grandchildren, who play on his property, exposed to dangerous roads.
The director of Public Works, Danny Holloman, said the city had permission for the county landfill to sell fabrics on the ground to the “te” component of the mixture. Holloman did not specify what type of you may not be included in the curtains sold on the floor.
Hilburn also expressed concerns about drainage and land in the other aspect of his property.
“If it were your home, you need it to grow up,” Hilburn said.
Holloman said the city planned to demolish the design and leave the land blank.
Steve Glover, owner of the Broad Street Cafe at 104 W. Broad St., also complained that others parked outside his company’s doors for more than two hours until 6 p.m.
“I’m wasting business because I can’t park,” Glover said.
Chief Dollinger said the police branch would investigate the matter.
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