Contributed Photo, Hoke High Wrestling Written by Jessica Brown, Publisher Mens Wrestling Coached by Brandon Locklear (Head), Chris Kelly, Rachel Borman, Logan Seliga and Tonya Flournory, Hoke County High School’s wrestling team closes out an exciting 2024-2025 season with several impressive wins at NCHSAA 4A State Championships, with two wrestlers securing podium finishes and...
By Catharin Shepard Editor The News-Journal, one of the oldest businesses in Hoke County, is celebrating its 120th anniversary this year. Formed from the joining of two different publications in early Hoke, the paper has always been a locally-owned and operated source of news for the community. Since 1905, The News-Journal’s been there for...
(Image: The new Hoke County High School Bucks logo, designed by Loaded for Bear. Property of Hoke County Schools, taken from Powerpoint presentation at school board meeting.) By Catharin Shepard • Editor • There’s a new buck in Bucktown. After school officials learned that the buck’s head design Hoke County High School has been using...
By Catharin Shepard • Editor • The Hoke County industrial park in Dundarrach is getting a new occupant as part of Pennsylvania Transformer Technology’s $102 million expansion, which will create 217 jobs over the next three years. North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein announced the expansion Monday afternoon. “PTT’s expansion is an outstanding economic development win...
The Raeford City Council will meet in a special meeting Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 8 a.m. in the James B. McLeod Council Chambers at Raeford City Hall, 315 N. Main Street. The purpose of the meeting will be to hear presentations from non-profits for budget purposes. The public is invited to attend.
(Photo: The Lady Bucks champs. Contributed photo.) By Eli Harrelson • News-Journal Student Writer • At the heart of every challenge are those who let it break them, and those who wrestle through it, emerging stronger on the other side. A great example of those who demonstrate that special type of determination and grit is...
(See more photos below) • By Catharin Shepard • Editor • It only took a few strokes of their pens for five Hoke County students to sign on for the next chapter of their lives, but it took years of sweat, hard work and learning for them to get there. As the five student athletes...
By Catharin Shepard • Editor • Hoke County is constructing affordable housing rentals on CC Steele Road and plans to form a housing authority to oversee those apartments, and potential future housing options in an effort to offer housing to low-income families and individuals. The Hoke County Board of Commissioners spoke at last Monday night’s...