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Matthew application deadline approaching
RALEIGH — A deadline related to Hurricane Matthew, and that is the correct storm, is approaching. Eligible North Carolinians have until May 31 to apply with ReBuild NC for help with repairs or building for homes damaged by the October 2016 storm. This aid comes through the single-family housing recovery…
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Editorial: Fixing DHHS has to happen; to not do so will be costly
Gov. Roy Cooper has been talking for months about Medicaid expansion. The state auditor sent him, and all of us for that matter, an alarming message Monday. Our system is in trouble, and it is costing us. The Department of Health and Human Services, led by Cooper appointee Mandy Cohen,…
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Matthew application deadline approaching
RALEIGH — A deadline related to Hurricane Matthew, and that is the correct storm, is approaching. Eligible North Carolinians have until May 31 to apply with ReBuild NC for help with repairs or building for homes damaged by the October 2016 storm. This aid comes through the single-family housing recovery…
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Editorial: Resiliency being tested, but solutions are coming
Issues like the last two to three years don’t usually pile on as they have for Bladen County. It seems we get hit, begin recovery and then out of nowhere something else slams into us. We’re reminded of the blues the fellas in overalls were singing on a television show…
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Bladenboro, Elizabethtown receive fiscal help
BLADENBORO — Grants of $500,000 each have been designated for Bladenboro and Elizabethtown, and the latter is getting a $2 million loan to help with recovery from Hurricane Florence. The two are among 11 that were named in a news release from the governor’s office on Friday. In total, there…
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Stanfield: Stay firm in your love and commitment to God
Most of you who know me know that, other than being a police officer, I have spent most of my adult life as my own supervisor at different business ventures. After losing everything we had back in the recession, I had to go to work for a company and it…
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Wagner: Someone else is dying in your place
As he lay bound in the prison, he must have thought back on his life and wondered how it all ended up like this. Some kids have parents that are cold and distant, and can lay some blame at those feet. But not him. Even his name was a reflection…
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Hammond Creek Association hosted a Black History Month program at First Baptist Church in Elizabethtown on Sunday. Alice Moore, the association’s missionary, hosted. Pastor Corey Lyons gave the welcome, elders shared struggles of the past, youth expressed dreams of fulfillment of unity and love, and presentations were made in song,…
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Stanfield: Happy Birthday, to our sweet beloved Henri!
Sometimes God sends us gifts disguised as problems. A few months after living in our car and finally getting a roof back over our head, I gave in to my son’s cry for a dog. Not just any dog, a border collie. For those of you who aren’t familiar with…
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Wagner: Will wonders ever cease?
I am still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that Al Sharpton and I actually agree on something. Sunday on his MSNBC show, “PoliticsNation,” Al Sharpton called on “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett to “face accountability to the maximum” if he staged a hate crime that he could blame…
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Faith calendar
Editor’s note: Submit faith-related events to to [email protected]. Deadline is Wednesday at noon. * * * Feb. 24 • Baldwin Branch Missionary Baptist Church, 4047 N.C. 242 in Elizabethtown, is sponsoring an ordination certification service at 3 p.m. for some of its associate ministers. Featured will be Pastor Cornelius Moore,…
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Stanfield: ‘Amazing’ inspiration for our lives
Who doesn’t like the song, “Amazing Grace?” If there is a person that doesn’t love a good rendition of this classical gospel tune, I have not found him yet. I travel a lot with my job, so my radio stays on about three different stations. Most of the time, I…
