Four Oaks News

At first, we wondered why the N.C. Department of Transportation was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to pave dirt roads that lead to nowhere.

Four Oaks mayor Linwood Parker says the breaks were caused by the fire department flushing hydrants and then re-pressuring the lines too quickly.

John Sanderson, the new North Carolina Cooperative Extension agent for field crops, examines a wheat field for storm damage along Patetown Road.

Nine students from Johnston Community College have received scholarships through the Golden LEAF Scholarship program.

Plates of barbecued pork and chicken will be on sale from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at Smyrna Original Free Will Baptist Church on N.C. 96, three miles south of Meadow School.