Hampstead News

Submitted by WWAY on 25 June 2009 - 5:43pm. Speed a concern in Hampstead on Highway 210 A stretch of road in Pender County continues to concern residents.

Published: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 11:06 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 11:06 a.m. Five horses taken away from their owners a little more than a month-and-a-half ago were picked up in a trailer Tuesday morning and taken back home to their farm near the Pender-Onslow county border.

Published: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 4:32 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 4:32 p.m. This year's library summer performances begin with storyteller Cynthia Moore Brown.

Left to right, Dana and Donna Leathers, from Swansboro, float along in the Lazy River at Jungle Rapids Family Fun Park Thursday, June 18, 2009.

A Hampstead man, his wife and his brother have been sentenced to probation after 10 malnourished horses were seized from his property.

Eva McClearn strokes the muzzle of one of ten underweight horses rescued by the Topsail Humane Society Thursday May 7, 2009.

Published: Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 12, 2009 at 10:06 p.m. Territorialism is breeding in the road-building business in Southeastern North Carolina.

WALLACE a ' A Pender County man has been arrested in the deadly shooting of a teenage employee, who was shot as he worked inside a Duplin County Pizza Hut earlier this week.

Published: Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 1:32 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 1:32 p.m. Mike and Rosie Tague get their hands dirty every Sunday morning.

Submitted by WWAY on 8 June 2009 - 5:35pm. READ MORE: Pender County Sheriff Carson Smith has released information as to why one of his deputies was demoted last month.

Published: Friday, June 5, 2009 at 5:38 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 5, 2009 at 5:38 p.m. When the first wave of soldiers arrived at Normandy on D-Day, the wounded had nowhere to go.

Submitted by WWAY on 5 June 2009 - 6:06pm. READ MORE: A Castle Hayne man is facing charges for sex crimes in Pender County .

A Castle Hayne resident is facing charges, accused with committing sex crimes in Pender County.

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church , located at 107 Deerfield Drive in Hampstead, is participating in the second annual Barefoot Sunday on June 7th, a grassroots campaign launched by international shoe charity Soles4Souls , Inc.

Published: Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 7:56 p.m. Volunteers for the Topsail Humane Society plan to tell Pender County commissioners their concerns about a sergeant who was demoted for participating in rescuing animals from a farm in Hampstead.

Published: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 11:42 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 11:42 p.m. Some of our community's historic buildings are in danger of fading away without us even noticing.

What is it? The former Surrey Commercial Docks were filled in and and planted as a woodland during the Eighties, with the artificial Stave Hill built from waste material and rubble.

Published: Friday, May 22, 2009 at 11:26 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, May 22, 2009 at 11:26 a.m. Pender County is considering a test program to get rid of old mobile homes no longer used as dwellings.

A veterinarian visited a farm in Hampstead where rescued horses are now staying.

You might title this deja vu all over again - about a year ago I did a commentary on this topic and today I am going to share the same viewpoint.