Selma News

A team from Polenta Elementary School won this year's Adult Spelling Bee, which raised about $14,000 for the Johnston County Education Foundation.

State-sponsored North Carolina's Amtrak kicks off its station recycling program on America Recycles Day on Sunday, Nov.

Keep Johnston County Beautiful will hold a food drive as part of this year's Festival of Trees, which will take place Dec.

The next Country Tonight Music Show is scheduled for 7:45 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, at The Ice House Theatre, 112 N. Webb St., Selma.

Around Johnston County, Parker Peedin was a witty jack-of-all-trades known to everyone as Mack.

Alex Obrizok had no reason to suspect that Mark Hall might be stealing the $117,000 he'd invested with him.

Linda Peedin Lane of Selma sells preserves and jellies out of her home. She has fig preserves, strawberry-fig preserves and fig pickles, which is based on a 60-year-old recipe and you eat them on the side with a meal like pickles.

A week ago, 27 violent offenders were supposed to go free. Governor Bev Perdue continues to block their release.

Here's what I've been thinking lately: Everyone has an opinion on replacing the Neuse River bridge in downtown Smithfield - everyone except the people who will help make the decision.

Holiday arts and crafts will be on sale from 9 a.m. till 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, in the lobby of the Paul A. Johnson Auditorium at Johnston Community College, 245 College Road, Smithfield.

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Smithfield and Selma are spending public dollars to determine if some private lands would make good industrial sites.

Smithfield and Selma plan to work together to entice industrial development. The two towns will split the near-$35,000 cost of a state certification that could draw investors to private properties near the towns' shared border.

SwampDaWamp, which plays country and Southern rock, will perform at 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

Bryan Walker considers himself lucky. In the middle of a recession, the athletics director at Johnston Christian Academy lost his job when the school closed in June.

Christian karaoke is scheduled from 6 till 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at Selma Pentecostal Holiness Church, 410 N. Webb St., Selma.

The Smithfield-Selma Business Expo is scheduled from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. at Johnston Community College, 245 College Road, Smithfield.

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A paddle trip down the Neuse River in Wake and Johnston counties will take place Saturday, Oct.

"Fall Frenzy," a class for children ages 4-5, will meet from 1-3 p.m. Oct. 19, 21 and 23 at the Smithfield Recreation and Aquatics Center on Booker Dairy Road in Smithfield.