Year: 2023

[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...

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...