Four Oaks News

Keep Johnston County Beautiful will hold a food drive as part of this year's Festival of Trees, which will take place Dec.

The Johnston County school board lined up funding for the construction of West Johnston High School and other schools, and Billy Langston was named Smithfield's director of emergency services.

The Smithfield-Selma High School class of 1978 will hold a reunion at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

A fall festival is scheduled from 6 a.m. till 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at First Assembly of God, 923 Booker Dairy Road, Smithfield.

The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences is severing ties with a local ecotourism company after children dined with a convicted child molester during a museum-sponsored trip to Florida in April.

An alternative to Halloween is scheduled from 5 till 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, at Watkins Chapel Baptist Church at highways 39 and 231 in the Emit community.

Christian karaoke is scheduled from 6 till 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at Selma Pentecostal Holiness Church, 410 N. Webb St., Selma.

"Santa's Closet," a Christmas flea market, is scheduled from 8 a.m. till 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

Daniel Kornegay of Princeton High School has placed first in the tractor operator's competition in the Johnston FFA Federation.

The Men's Group at Smithfield Advent Christian Church will serve its monthly breakfast at 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept.

A program on financial aid is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, at South Johnston High School, 10381 U.S. 301 South, Four Oaks.

Two months ago, Dr. Norwood Williams received a troubling phone message. "Please, please help me," the woman on the answering machine said, unable to find food or help for her health problems.

Federal investigators have charged a Four Oaks woman with filing a false report when she said in May 2008 that her son had disappeared from a Smithfield flea market.

This is the last in a four-part series about successful graduates of Johnston Community College.

From abstract sculptures to bird houses to glass jewelry, local festivals bring variety to your everyday shopping habits.

Johnston County Animal Services will hold an Open House on September 12, 2009 between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. at the Pet Adoption Center at 115 Shelter Way in Smithfield.

Cub Scouting in Johnston County is holding sign-ups in the county's elementary schools.

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"Declaration 2009" is scheduled from 3 till 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13, at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, 5217 Barber Mill Road, Clayton.

A 'For Sale' sign posted outside the Biscuit Stop could spell the end for the popular eatery on South Bright Leaf Boulevard.