Hampstead News

In addition to the announcement about the Coty Plant in Rocky Point at Monday's Pender County Commissioners meeting, several other issues topped the agenda.

Published: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 8:46 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 8:46 p.m. Dog owners spoke out against aggressive canines that attack their pets Monday, asking Pender County Commissioners to enact stricter animal control ordinances.

Authorities believe some bones found near Hampstead last week could belong to a marine who disappeared five years ago.

Richard Lawton Brown is accused of disseminating an obscene picture over the Internet to a person he believed to be a 12-year-old boy.

Federal and local authorities say skeletal remains found in Hampstead late last week belong to a Camp Lejeune Marine who vanished nearly five years ago.

Lucas Marks Letendre was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Greenville for his convictions of attempting to entice a child to engage in illegal sexual activity and of receiving child pornography.

Published: Monday, December 7, 2009 at 8:35 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 7, 2009 at 8:35 a.m. Volunteers with the Hampstead Community Holiday Assistance Program began planning for Christmas before they'd had a chance to don Halloween costumes.

Published: Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, December 4, 2009 at 8:35 p.m. Hampstead Ellie Batts enjoyed her career in banking, except for the time she was held-up at gunpoint and the day a customer tried to deposit a baby alligator in a shoe box.

Surf City Community Center has set up its annual "Giving Tree." This year's tree is decorated with ornaments that have information regarding three local families the center has adopted through the Community Holiday Assistance Program run by the 4 Cs of Hampstead.

Published: Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 11:53 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 11:53 p.m. When people fear for the safety of their family or their pets on their own property, it's past time to act.

Published: Monday, November 30, 2009 at 8:18 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 30, 2009 at 8:18 a.m. With Christmas less than a month away, Pender towns are preparing to celebrate the season.

Eric Loewen Published: Friday, November 27, 2009 at 9:10 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 27, 2009 at 9:10 a.m. Robert Downey Jr.

Virginia Huebner, left, and husband Rolf Huebner sit with their dog Kokomo in their Hampstead home Saturday, Nov.

Published: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 9:26 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 9:26 a.m. Doing a good deed for a neighbor is a true measure of being neighborly.

Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 1:44 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 5:50 p.m. A Topsail High School student who died earlier this month experienced fatal complications from the H1N1 virus, Pender County health officials said Tuesday.

US MARINES MENTAL HEALTH Dr. Kernan Manion poses for a photograph in his officer in Hampstead, N.C., Friday, Nov.

Submitted by WWAY on 19 November 2009 - 4:18pm. READ MORE: What's Happening: November 20-22 Anticipating eating a lot of turkey on Thanksgiving? Well go ahead and make room for it by participating in the 2nd Annual Hampstead Kiwanis Park Turkey Trot.

Published: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 8:11 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 8:11 p.m. Burgaw Pender County sheriff's deputies arrested five people and broke up a prescription drug ring, according to a statement released Monday.

Published: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 8:43 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 8:42 a.m. For local amateur artists, an annual exhibition at the Hampstead Library provides a rare opportunity to showcase a hobby.

Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 5:42 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 5:42 p.m. When the new Topsail Regional Library is built, it will be on Pender County school system property next to its predecessor, the current Hampstead library.