Bladenboro News

Chris and Mel Mcallihan of Bladenboro are the happy and proud parents of two children, Topher and Charm, and they share a deep and loving bond with each other.

A gas main was ruptured Tuesday by workers on the Bladenboro Main Street revitalization project.

Dreams are a wonderful thing that lead us to achieve and become stronger, greater and do more than we thought we could with our lives.

Five alleged drug dealers were arrested Friday in Bladenboro and the surrounding area.

The Bladen County Sheriff's Office is looking for two men wanted for questioning after an armed robbery on Monday at the Hwy.

A Bladenboro-area man will be sentenced in January for his role in a February 2003 murder on Storms Road.

Payton Chavis won the Greater Miss Carolina Sweetheart Pageant's Junior Miss Division on Jan.

David Hull has joined Murphy-Brown LLC as a grain buyer for the pork producer's feed mill locations in Bladenboro and Laurinburg, North Carolina, and Nichols, South Carolina.

The Tri-County Campaign of the United Negro College Fund hosted its 15th annual Community Banquet honoring outstanding citizens at East Columbus High School in Lake Waccamaw on November 6. The highlight of the banquet is the presentation of awards to citizens deemed to have had a special impact on their communities during the past year.

Bladenboro-area resident Ronald Allen was one of 74 employees of Southeastern Regional Medical Center employees who were honored at the organization's annual service banquet this year.

Southeastern Regional Medical Center employees and retirees from Bladen County were honored earlier this month at the medical center's annual service awards banquet.

Healthcare in Bladen County got a shot in the arm on Tuesday when U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre and USDA Undersecretary Dallas Tonsinger stopped in Bladenboro to present $1.1 million in federal funds for the Bladen Healthcare Clinic Project.

"During his State of the Union address last week, President Obama laid out a blueprint for an economy that's built to last - an economy built on American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values," said Vilsack.

McIntyre will join officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to present federal funds to Four County EMC and Lumbee River EMC at the Bladenboro Town Hall beginning at 9:30 a.m. Four County EMC and Bladen's Bloomin' will provide $1 million in funds to Bladen Healthcare in order to renovate space and purchase equipment for an operational ... (more)

SCHOLARSHIP BENEFIT The scholarship committee of Woodmen of the World Lodge 208 is hosting a chicken bog plate sale with all proceeds going to the Scholarship Fund.

The North Carolina Strawberry Festival, in association with Grand Ole Gospel-Chadbourn, will host the Dove Brothers Quartet, a southern gospel group from Bladenboro, in concert on Tuesday, April 28, at 7 p.m. at the Strawberry Festival Event Field, located at the corner of Strawberry Blvd.

Meeting: The Dulcimer and Folksong Club will meet at 3 p.m. today at Riverway, located at 600 Kingsdale Blvd.

A volunteer chaperone from Bladenboro Primary School talks with a student about an Incredible Hulk t-shirt at Walmart in Elizabethtown during the Christmas for Kids shopping spree.

David Hull has joined Murphy-Brown LLC as a grain buyer for the pork producer's feed mill locations in Bladenboro and Laurinburg, North Carolina, and Nichols, South Carolina.

John and Marilyn Inman are certainly doing most of the "heavy lifting" at Inman's Deli & Meat Market, the original anchor tenant of the Cape Fear Farmer's Market in downtown Elizabethtown, but they give a lot of credit to a third party for the guidance and direction they've received.