Pender County News

Published: Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 10:16 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 10:16 p.m. The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution have given numerous awards to students in Pender County recently.

Published: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 4:46 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 4:46 p.m. Pender County schools on May 1 became clients of a new Web-based Wilmington company that bills itself as an innovative approach to school fundraising.

A Marine from New River Air Station in Jacksonville drowned in Pender County, according to officials.

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 30, 2009 at 7:25 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 7:25 p.m. RALEIGH A bill that would seek to delay the opening of a cement plant near Wilmington has been delayed by the bill sponsor.

Would you pay a tax to ease traffic woes? According to the bill, the tax would expire after seven years, and the projects would have to be identified - and their costs determined - before the referendum.

Published: Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 5:44 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 5:44 p.m. Construction of a nine-bed substance abuse treatment facility for adolescents in Burgaw could start by summer's end.

Enthusiastic gardeners find it hard to resist any area of their yard that will take to a bit of landscaping, whatever the challenges.

Lisa Watts, who has been caring for the horses taken from Laura Westbrock and B.J. Suttles farm in May, feeds one of the animals Monday while waiting for the owners to come and recover some of the horses.

Pender cooperative extension director Wayne Batten grills up some of the Pender products on sale at the Farmers Market at Poplar Grove Plantation in a monthly eat-local promotional cookout.

Published: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 4:55 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 4:55 p.m. An established Winston-Salem commercial painting business has expanded into coastal North Carolina to take advantage of activity at the Camp Lejeune Marine base.

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

Sunburst Foundation is reporting the Pender County Animal Control facility is at to near full capacity, even after the recent efforts of at least three local rescue groups.

Published: Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 12:07 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 12:07 p.m. Across the Cape Fear region Saturday, thousands of brand new diploma-clutching high school graduates will toss their caps in the air and set their sights on the future.

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.

Wanda Lynn Justice's disappearance started as a missing person case for the Durham County Sheriff's Office.

Mario O. Brown has been charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Submitted by WWAY on 9 June 2009 - 11:46am. Dark days may be ahead for Pender County schools Until area school districts get some answers from the state on possible budget cuts, administrators are preparing for the worst.

Published: Monday, June 8, 2009 at 10:17 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 8, 2009 at 10:17 p.m. Burgaw Facing a $4.6 million budget shortfall, the Pender County Board of Education announced Monday night it was looking at cutting 33 teaching positions and 25 teaching assistant positions.

Submitted by WWAY on 8 June 2009 - 10:13am. READ MORE: Pender County leaders plan to release information about the demotion of a sheriff's deputy.