ELIZABETHTOWN — Will Bladen County for the first time be voting on Sundays? The county Board of Elections, to no surprise, at Wednesday meeting could not reach agreement on the issue for the early voting [...]

ELIZABETHTOWN — Bladen Baptist Mission Resource Center set their goal for 400. When the collection of backpacks for N.C. Baptists on Missions and the Appalachia Coalfield Christmas Outreach Ministry topped that and hit 510, they [...]

ELIZABETHTOWN — The “what if” was numbing. Fortunately, the emergency inspection Wednesday of the southbound U.S. 701 bridge span over the Cape Fear River did not yield any reason to close the structure. Eddie Madden, [...]

ELIZABETHTOWN — Blessings of Christmas continue to come into the Empty Stocking Fund. The fundraising mission of the Bladen Journal and its partners, Leinwand’s in Elizabethtown and the Bladen County Department of Social Services, has [...]

ELIZABETHTOWN — Town officials remain hopeful FEMA will be footing the bill for repairs to the Elizabethtown Cemetery. The property that is adjacent to the Cape Fear River about a block off the eastern side [...]