Carthage News

A courts facilities study is on the agenda for the Monday meeting of the Moore County Board of Commissioners.

Moderate to heavy rain is forecast to rear its head again today, according to the National Weather Service in Raleigh.

Moore County tobacco growers will vote Thursday on whether to continue their research and extension assessment.

The 2009 Miss Noel Scholarship Pageant, presented by the Sandhills Business and Professional Women's Organization, will be held at the Aberdeen Elementary School Auditorium at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov.4. Co-hostesses for the event are Charity Haskins, Miss Moore County 2010, and Katherine Kearns, Miss Moore County 2010 Outstanding Teen.

Moore County Schools' Exceptional Children Department will be hosting its Fourth Transition Fair Monday, Nov.

Votes in West Aberdeen and Eureka precincts were manually counted Monday afternoon in compliance with State Board of Elections regulations.

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.