Kenansville News

As nice as Independence Day was, Sunday might be the other side of the coin. What a gorgeous Independence Day for Eastern Carolina.

By Rachel George Wilmington Star-News KENANSVILLE - Athletics in Duplin County are safe for the coming school year.

KENANSVILLE Football season will go on as scheduled in one North Carolina school system after county commissioners voted to lift restrictions on money targeted for athletics and extracurricular programs.

KENANSVILLE a ' The Duplin County Board of Commissioners met Monday night, with an overflowing crowd of teachers, parents and students in the auditorium of the Duplin Commons Agricultural Complex.

An area police officer and assistant coach charged with stalking a woman has had his court date rescheduled until mid-June. Kirk D. Newkirk, 42, of Renee Court, faces a charge of misdemeanor stalking after a May 8 arrest.

Duplin County residents who either have a young child or are expecting one are welcome to attend this workshop.

Obituaries - Mary A. Backus, Anita G. Grantham, Daisy Jo Turner, W. Glen Sykes, Brian Davis, Gladys Sloan, LuRae C. Tyndall, Margaret W. Whitman, Ruth E. Smith, Katie F. Best, Mary Turner, Hooty Lewis NEW BPW OFFICERS - The Wayne-Duplin Business and Professional Women's Club recently inducted its new officers for the 2009-10 year.

Duplin commissioners said no thanks to federal money for sewer projects Monday because the county would have to pay back half of the $1.7 million grant-loan package.

The Eastern Carolina Council Regional Planning Organization Rail Study Sub-Committee met last week in quarterly session in Kenansville.

The granite memorial will contain the name of each man, as well as his hometown, rank and branch of service, and dates of birth and death.

The Bladen Community College Foundation has established an endowment in memory of Kay Geisen, who was the college's vice president of instruction at the time of her death on April 11.

Duplin County Board of Education vice chairman Reginald Kenan has been nominated by Gov.

A Duplin County man responsible for distributing more than six kilograms of methamphetamine into eastern North Carolina in a three-year period has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison.

By John Cate, Editor Gov. Beverly Perdue made the formal announcement Sunday afternoon that North Carolina had become the 31st state to report a confirmed case of H1N1 influenza, popularly referred to in the media as "swine flu." The case was reported in Onslow County, some distance away from the Tribune coverage area, but local health officials ...

At this time last year, Sheriff Jimmy Thornton's frustration with the raging methamphetamine problem in Sampson County had long since boiled over.

Slightly camouflaged behind a stack of folders, Duplin commissioner Frances Parks stands against the board in not taking on the WIC program.

Kelley Precythe, son to Southern Produce Distributors Inc. owner, Stewart, points to the potato hydrocooler, where the fire began at 9:30 p.m. Sunday.

Duplin County resident Thurman Herring, left, questions planning director Randall Tyndall regarding the revised minimum housing standard ordinance.

Duplin County Emergency Services director Brian Pearce requests alternative funding and updates commissioners on communication, equipment and the back-up dispatch facility.

Duplin commissioners discuss holding the line on property taxes while, at the same time, making across-the-board cuts.