Main Street blocked into at least next week

What was supposed to be a two-week closure of Main Street near Unilever has stretched to nearly a month, and will continue at least into next week. City Manager Dennis Baxley told Raeford City Council at a meeting this morning that crews were making good progress on installing a large culvert under the road until Hurricane Isaias came along. Though the storm didn’t cause any damage in Hoke County, it is responsible for a delay in repaving the road. “So next week?” asked Councilman John Jordan, who said he’d had lots of questions about the reopening. “I hope—I’ve been ‘next-weeked’ to death,” Baxley said. “Sometime,” he said. “Sometime before the project is over they’ll have it paved.”