By Catharin Shepard • Editor • The North Carolina General Assembly’s budget, which passed last Friday, contains about $15.7 million for infrastructure projects and other improvements in Raeford and Hoke County. Hoke’s elected state leaders, Rep. Garland Pierce and Sen. Danny Britt, announced the funds once the budget passed the General Assembly in the early...
Month: September 2023
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Hoke High staff hurt while breaking up fights
By Catharin Shepard • Editor • Two Hoke County High School staff members went to the hospital Monday, one with a laceration to the forehead and the other for back issues, after breaking up fights on the high school campus. Two teachers were also checked out for “cuts and abrasions,” and two safety monitors had...
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Hoke Reading and Literacy Council celebrates 45th anniversary
[Photo: Attendees enjoyed the celebration last week at the Robert A. Wright Agriculture Building in Hoke County.] By Catharin Shepard • Editor • Cosandera Melvin had a computer at home, but didn’t know how to use it. While getting her hair done one day, a friend told her about the Saturday computer classes at the...
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Local ‘studs’ serve up sliders at Habitat fundraiser
[Photo: Raeford Police Chief Marc Godwin was among the volunteer men who served up some sliders at the Habitat for Humanity fundraiser.] By Catharin Shepard • Editor • It’s not every day Raeford’s mayor, police chief, assistant police chief and a city council member put on hard hats to wait tables, but it happened for...
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Hoke High improves, some schools slip in performance grades
By Catharin Shepard • Editor • No Hoke County schools flunked, and Hoke High improved to earn a B letter grade in the most recent round of statewide school performance grades. Hoke High and SandHoke Early College High School earned the only B and A grades out of the county’s 13 graded public schools this...