Fresh off their performance at East Carolina University in the North Carolina Thespian Festival, drama students at Hoke County High School are setting their sights on an even bigger stage: the International Thespian Festival, held this summer in Indiana. They’ll need some help to get there. Including travel costs, each of the 13 students who...
Month: March 2023
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Luggage drive to help foster children
When children go into foster care, they sometimes have to leave their homes at a moment’s notice with all their belongings stuffed into plastic garbage bags. Affairs of the Family and the Hoke County Open Door Soup Kitchen are working to help make a difficult, scary situation a little easier on children by holding a...
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Hoke deputies shoot armed man during “high-risk” search
From the Hoke County Sheriff’s Office: The Hoke County Sheriff Office announces on Friday March 24, 2023 Hoke County Sheriff’s Office Deputies were conducting a high-risk search warrant in the 100 Block of Hickory Drive in Raeford, NC. Upon arrival at the location Hoke County Deputies knocked and announced their presence at the residence. As Hoke County Deputies entered...
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Governor visits Scurlock Elementary
[Photo: Gov. Roy Cooper looks at students’ classwork in a kindergarten classroom at Scurlock Elementary during a visit to the school Thursday morning.] North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper visited Scurlock Elementary School to talk about education funding. He toured classrooms and held a press conference in the school media center with local elected officials. See...
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Commissioners appoint Wright to board
By Catharin Shepard • Editor • A man with decades of experience serving as a county commissioner will return to the board next week. The Hoke County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously last Wednesday morning to appoint Robert “Bobby” Wright to serve out the remainder of the late Commissioner Lonnie Baldwin’s term in office. Wright...
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Commissioners appoint Bobby Wright as fifth board member
[Photo: Bobby Wright will return to the board this month with a swearing-in set for March 20. He and his wife were present Wednesday morning when Commission Vice Chairman James Leach (back row, from left), Commission Chairman Allen Thomas and Commissioner Harry Southerland, along with Commissioner Tony Hunt (not pictured) made the unanimous vote. (Catharin...
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Meet helicopter crash survivor at The News-Journal March 16
Military veteran Elmer Adams was one of four people who survived a helicopter crash in Hoke County in October 1973, thanks in no small part to the quick action of bystanders who rushed to help. The News-Journal will host an informal gathering for Adams and those who helped that day. The gathering is set for...
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Rising Stars program expands to include four schools
By Catharin Shepard • Editor • What started a few years ago as a grassroots effort to help prepare young children for kindergarten will expand into four elementary schools in Hoke County this summer. Rising Stars is a local effort launched by Citizens for Early Childhood Education, a group of people concerned with seeing Hoke...
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Fundraiser collects $2,100 for soup kitchen
[Photo: The winners of the Bowl of Abundance soup cook-off were Brian Henderson in first place, Betty Perkins in second place and Becky Jones in third place. (Contributed photo)] The annual Bowl of Abundance fundraiser for the Open Door Soup Kitchen raised $2,100 to support the nonprofit’s mission of feeding the hungry in Hoke County....