— June 11, 2004: Gas prices pose an imminent threat, reaching $2 a gallon. Little did motorists know that, just a few years later, gas prices would top $4 per gallon.

— June 11, 1999: Kristal Troy of Dublin is the Class 1-A state champion. After competing at UNC-Charlotte and receiving first place in the 400-meter dash, Kristal goes on to be Tar Heel High School's first state champion.

— June 11, 1984: In representation of a group of voters from White's Creek, Jay Priest appears before the Bladen County Board of Elections proposing that Commissioner Wilbur Register be disqualified from the race for county commisioner. Wilbur was said to be soliciting near the entrance of a polling place in White's Creek.

June 11, 1953: Nearly 300 locals, mostly comprised of Bladen County farmers, gather at J.R. Powell farm to witness an irrigation demonstration on a tobacco crop. This modernization gripped the agricultural community of Bladen County.