Carthage News

Pottery and child foster care will be the featured topics at the Saturday, Nov. 14, meeting of the Democratic Women ofMoore County.

For the most part, moderation and incumbency carried the day Tuesday in Moore County municipal elections.

The Moore Soil and Water Conservation District has sold out of dogwood, crape myrtle and apple trees.

Incumbents swamped anti-jail candidates Tuesday in Carthage's municipal election.

After four months of campaigning, the municipal election season will come to an end Tuesday night.

Joe Riley, of Pinehurst, a Marine veteran of World War II, will deliver the keynote address at the 10 a.m. Nov.

Bert Patrick, a jail opponent running for mayor of Carthage, strongly disputes statements made in a Pilot interview with county and Carthage officials.

One-stop absentee voting for the Nov. 3 municipal elections ends Saturday at the Moore County Agriculture Center across the street from the elections office on Pinehurst Avenue in Carthage.

Testimony by retired deputy Timothy Monroe in federal court Monday in Greensboro was meant to establish the chain of evidence for a videotape that might have resolved important questions in a lawsuit filed against a former Moore County deputy.

Moore County has no water crisis, and county leaders are conferring with other counties and several municipalities about collaborative efforts on water issues.

SaySo will facilitate its annual "Give a Child a Smile" project for USA Today's 19th Annual "Make a Difference Day" Saturday, Oct.

On a 3-2 vote the Moore County Board of Commissioners has accepted a design and development phase plan for the public safety-detention center to be erected on a 21-acre tract adjacent to the existing jail in downtown Carthage.

AJuly undercover investigation resulted in the arrest of two Carthage residents Thursday on charges of distributing controlled prescription pills.

The controversy surrounding a proposed N.C. 24-27 bypass of Carthage has got everybody frustrated.

Sunday's front page, by coincidence, included both good news and bad news for those seeking to set tracts aside for dogs and their human handlers.

Five people were arrested Tuesday as the result of an undercover operation on charges of distributing controlled prescription pills.

Responding to what it termed "a great deal of public response," the N.C. Department of Trans-portation is proposing to defer the controversial Carthage by-pass project indefinitely.

The Moore Soil and Water Conservation District office is taking orders for the 2009-2010 tree-planting season.

The Moore County Planning Board has unanimously recommended denial of a rezoning request by a company interested in operating a bomb-sniffing dog training program between Cameron and Carthage.

Work in a 4-H Club opened the big wide world to Carolyn Register, and 4-H introduced her to a very "happy career." Today, she points to the 4-H Centennial as evidence of 100 years of success and the kickoff for an even greater future.