Roseboro News

S students chosen for Duke camp Two students from Roseboro-Salemburg Middle School, Sarah Wallace Strickland and Alondra Flores, have been selected to participate in the Duke University Health Careers Camp, from June 24th-28th. The students are 7th graders, Sarah Wallace Strickland and Alondra Flores.

Roseboro mayor David Alexander was hesitant to allow citizens to keep chickens in town because he fears that if the law is changed for chickens then others may come forward wanting the town to make allowances for livestock animals.

Dominique Roseboro was offered by North Carolina back in February. A couple weeks ago, the 2015 Shelby Crest safety picked up scholarship offer No.

Bond $3,000; court date Jun3 7. 5/14 - Jeffery Allen Hobbs, 36, 310 East Roseboro St., Roseboro, second degree trespassing.

Mrs. Gloria "Rene" Williams, 75, of 609 S. Layton Ave., died Thursday, May 9, 2013 at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Fayetteville.

A local business is back in the news again after a fight between some eight people ended in the arrest of three.

A Union Elementary kindergartner was struck and killed by an 18-wheeler late Tuesday afternoon as the child was exiting a school bus stopped near her home on Delway Highway.

Roseboro town commissioners Alice Butler and Anthony Bennett look over the budget with town clerk Amanda Beatty and discuss changes that need to be made for the upcoming year.

Wilbert Kemp, 69, of 3209 Nantuckett Lane, died Monday, May 6, 2013, at Cumberland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Fayetteville.

The incredible story of three Ohio women who escaped their kidnappers Tuesday after being locked away in a suburban Cleveland home for about a decade has given hope to a Sampson County family that has been waiting 13 years for their own miracle.

Pictured are items confiscated from a vehicle stopped on Beulah Road. The components, sheriff's agents said, were consistent with things used in the manufacture of meth.

Bond $5,000; court May 10. 4/25 - Twilla Jackson of Feed Mill Road, Roseboro, reported that someone stole a rear engine riding lawn mower valued at $600 from her property.

Commissioners James McLean, Roland Hall, and Richard Barefoot discuss the need for housing in downtown Roseboro during last Thursday's specially held housing meeting.

Bond $5,000; court May 10. 4/25 - Twilla Jackson of Feed Mill Road, Roseboro, reported that someone stole a rear engine riding lawn mower valued at $600 from her property.

During the county's Board of Education meeting Monday night, Roseboro-Salemburg Middle School teachers Pandora Matthews and Rhonda Wooten let two of their students, seventh graders Skylar Stephens and Sarah Wallace Strickland, demonstrate how the Perennial Math online competitions work.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has declared North Carolina-licensed truck driver Johnny Allen Spell to be an imminent hazard to public safety and has ordered him not to operate any commercial motor vehicle in interstate commerce.

Two Sampson County teens were jailed under separate $100,000 bonds over the weekend, charged in connection with the April 14 robbery of a Piggly Wiggly employee in Roseboro.

Kent Fann of Fann Farms presents Ricky Naylor with his People's Choice award. Naylor's F12 McCormick Farmall tractor was the attendees' favorite, earning $1,340 in donations.

Bond $1,000; court date May 28. 4/25 - Woodrow Sidney Taylor, 29, 738 Dunn Road, Roseboro, intoxicated and disruptive.

For Leopard Pride, students must improve 10 points in one subject or 5 points in 2 subjects, and cannot drop more than 5 points in any class.