Salemburg News

Clinton police have charged a Kitty Fork Road woman with nine felonies after she allegedly tried to forge a prescription and then attempted to pick it up at CVS Pharmacy.

A Salemburg teenager, who was found in possession of more than an ounce of marijuana, is one of five residents who have been brought up on felony drug charges in three separate drug investigations into marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine over the past week, according to reports filed Monday.

There's been good news - more public participation at town meetings, the possibility of grant funding that might just breathe new life into the southern Sampson municipality and a board more apt than ever to do its business openly and with public input welcome.

Just days after a Roseboro man was taken into custody on felony larceny and possession of stolen property charges leveled following a Jan.

Long-time Salemburg commissioner Arnold Page was recently honored by the Mid-Carolina Council of Governments, being named the recipient of the Emsley Kennedy Award for elected municipal officials.

Salemburg Elementary Students of the month were recently honored. Pictured are kindergarten and first grade students.

Sigma Alpha Lamba is proud to announce that Ashley Rose Velez of Salemburg has recently become recognized as a member of of Sigma Alpha Lambda, a National Leadership and Honors Organization at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

The garden is one of the garden projects at the orphanage. Amy Boone tutors one of the orphans with his reading so he will do better in school.

Sampson County sheriff's investigators have become involved with what they said was a disturbing case of alleged elderly abuse against a 76-year-old woman.

Rep.. Joe Hackney, speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives, will meet and greet on Thursday, Jan.

The Deacons and Ministers Union of the Western Union Association will be held at the Brown's Chapel Missionary Baptist Church on H.B. Lewis Road, Clinton, Saturday at 9 a.m. The theme is "Convincing the unconvinced through Christian education." The devotion and praise service by the deacons of Brown's Chapel and opening of the session by the Rev.

Farroll and Jonathan Griffin were united in holy matrimony on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 at Colonial Heights Freewill Baptist Church, Clinton, during Hurricane Irene.

Salemburg mayor Bobby Strickland, left, will be honored this Sunday by the town, its citizens and the town's Board of Commissioners, celebrating his over 30 years as mayor.

Salemburg Elementary recently announced its Students of the Month for January in Pre-K through Second Grade.

Salemburg commissioners, from left, are: Arnold Page, Donald Nance, and Bobby Tew.

A Sampson County man remained in critical but stable condition at WakeMed Hospitals in Raleigh Monday after being shot in the chest following an alleged argument near Salemburg early Sunday morning.

The back of the five dump trucks and a portion of the building that was destroyed in a blaze Wednesday.

Dylan Blackburn pauses to pray during the interview session. Blackburn shared that his family has started praying each night at 8 p.m. and he could feel a presence as a result.