University of North Carolina Pembroke News

Josh Lovell, Adrian McNeil, and Trey Bracey play the trumpet during the Laurinburg Rotary Club meeting on Tuesday afternoon.

Lee Hortman, vice president of operations at Gray & Creech Water Systems, Inc. , a distributor of drinking water and coffee systems, has announced that Terri Gray has joined the firm as a new sales account manager.

Author Richard Folsom will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the main reading room of Mary Livermore Library at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson will speak at 7:30 p.m. today at the Givens Performing Arts Center.

Despite legislation for federal recognition having passed the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Lumbee Tribal Chairman Jimmy Goins says the fight for federal recognition is far from over.

The Robeson County Historical and Genealogical Society is preparing a book containing the genealogical data - name, birth date and death date - on every gravestone in Meadowbrook Cemetery.

The Lumberton Police Department on Saturday displayed its firearms skills by taking first place in the Arthur Oxendine Memorial Firearms Championship, which was held the same day as the 12th annual Robeson County Law Enforcement Executive Officer's Association Awards Banquet.

A College Fair is being held in Second Life this weekend, October 24-25 2009, at International Schools Island, allowing students and college representatives from around the world to meet avatar face-to-face without leaving their homes.

Bruce Roberts, former senior photographer and director of photography of Southern Living, will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the main reading room at the Mary Livermore Library of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Four people spoke Tuesday at a public forum held to give a committee leading the search for the next chancellor of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke ideas about what kind of individual should be chosen.

The Office of Multicultural and Minority Affairs and the Social Justice Symposium Committee are hosting the second annual Social Justice Symposium entitled, "Making Sense Out of Less Cents," on Wednesday.

Rapper Chuck D told The University of North Carolina at Pembroke students at the second of the Distinguished Speaker Series that "the cheapest price to pay is attention" during his talk on "race, rap, and reality." Introduced by Lamar Courmon, a student, as "the most commanding and just one of the best, I think, founders of hip-hop," Chuck D, a ...

With his signature on another of his famous big checks, Congressman Mike McIntyre brought more than $440,000 of federal grant money to local colleges and schools to help students in Robeson County reach for the stars.

The co-founder of the rap group Public Enemy will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Givens Performing Arts Center as The University of North Carolina at Pembroke's Distinguished Speaker Series continues.

Are you interested in a future in journalism? Well, here is your chance. Listen Up! is recruiting new members to its team of area high school students who produce the weekly page in The Daily News.

Amid unprecedented changes in our statea s economic landscape, UNC-TVa s North Carolina Rising project examines the challenges and opportunities facing rural regions in our state and how their successes affect all North Carolinians.

After a five-hour meeting Tuesday, the UNCP committee leading the search for a new chancellor had its charge from UNC System President Erskine Bowles, a search firm and tasks to accomplish before its next meeting.

The oldest building on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke will be celebrated Saturday.

Pembroke is expecting hundreds of women this week for the third annual conference of American Indian Women of Proud Nations at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

This weekend, Salem will celebrate the 200th birthday of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne - artist, travel writer and wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne.