By Catharin Shepard • Editor • Documents sent to The News-Journal last week in response to a public records request appeared to confirm some of what was said during a recorded phone conversation between Hoke County Manager Letitia Edens and Interim Planner Jackie Lowery. In the recording, Lowery told the county manager that a Hoke...
Commissioner denies telling interim county planner to sign unapproved permit By Catharin Shepard • Editor • A Hoke County commissioner allegedly told the interim county planner to remove a special use permit from the board’s meeting agenda, and allegedly told her to approve the permit although the board never voted on it, according to a...