Bladen County News

It looks like blob of wriggling pudding staring out through a single, puckered eye.

Two cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Randolph County as the virus has caused at least two summer camps to close in North Carolina.

Those wanting to file for the upcoming Nov. 3 elections in Bladen County will need to wait until Monday, rather than the official start of filing today, because of the July 4 holiday.

Lacy West-Thomas Insurance Agency has been protecting the assets of families and businesses in our community since 1940.

A camp for children and teens in Bladen County has closed for next week after campers and staffers became sick with flu-like conditions.

About 100 firefighters from several Robeson and Bladen County fire departments responded quickly early Sunday to a blaze at the Southern States Cooperative fertilizer plant on Old Whiteville Road.

HARMONY HALL PLANTATION Chapel singings: April 18 1 PM Heavenly Sunrise April 25 Heritage Day 2 PM to 4 PM Blood Connected, Shade of the Cross May 17 Noon King's Grace May 30 1 PM The Glissons June 6 1 PM Glorybound Quartet June 14 2 PM Black Creek July 11 1 PM The Horrell Family July 25 1 PM The Glorymen Quartet August 8 1 PM Canaanland Trio ...

Horace Ray Long, 70, of 9449 N.C. 242 S., died at Bladen County Hospital in Elizabethtown after a crash between his tractor and a pick-up truck that occurred very close to his home at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

The U.S. Department of Education recently announced that the Bladen County school system has been awarded a grant through the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries for $495,381. Bladen County was one of 57 districts across the nation to win the LSL grant.

She proudly represents Elizabethtown and the region as Miss Central Carolina. - June 18, 1999: Elizabethtown is a host town for the Special Olympic World Games located in Raleigh.

Many Bladen County residents may have been surprised when they went to visit their local Cooperative Bank branch and saw the name had changed to First Bank.

ELIZABETHTOWN a ' The Bladen County Commissioners approved the 2009-10 budget Monday.

Lord Alfred Tennyson, famous 19th century poet laureate from the United Kingdom, once said "The old order changeth, yielding place to new." Those words apply well today to the Bladen Journal.

A microburst from a severe thunderstorm all but destroyed a mobile home Monday and temporarily trapped a woman inside.

A former Bladenboro man, James William Cain, 65, of 602 Sketter Lane, Orrum, was recently indicted by the grand jury on charges of first degree murder.

ELIZABETHTOWN a ' Residents of Bladen and Robeson counties may never know what John Franklin Hester chose Friday the 13th to go on a crime spree that allegedly resulted in two deaths, a 70-year-old Bladenboro man and an 83-year-old former pastor in Lumberton.

Published: Monday, June 15, 2009 at 7:25 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 15, 2009 at 8:49 p.m. A possible tornado was three miles northeast of Whiteville at 7:52 p.m. Monday, the National Weather Service said at 7:55 p.m. The tornado was being tracked by weather service doppler radar and storm spotters, the NWS said.

James Black and Ciaran Bradley are involved in a pretty cool project a ' one that Ia TMm inserting myself into right now, though it will not have an effect on them.

Bladen County Sheriff's deputies arrested five men on Friday after four separate reports of gunfire in and around Clarkton According to reports, the men were riding in a green Lincoln on Friday evening when the shooting spree began.

We will admit, right from the start, that it appears Mac Campbell and his son McQueen have, at the very least, a relatively close relationship with former Gov.