Government News for Columbus County NC
Two local COVID-19 patients died while hospitalized Friday and Monday, bringing the death toll to 50 and the total number of cases to 987. The Columbus County Health Department released its newest figures this afternoon. [Read More]
UPDATED. Cocaine, heroin, opiates, pills confiscated in undercover cases. Deputies seized drugs and cash in a series of narcotics raids over the weekend. The sheriff’s office arrested suspects in Bolton, Chadbourn and the Tabor City [Read More]
Officials are seeing 100 to 200 mail in requests for absentee ballots every day. COVID-19 and a presidential election is making for a busy time at the county board of elections, as voters make [Read More]
Breaking news update Aug. 13 Columbus County has 51 new cases of COVID-19 reported since Monday, according to the twice-weekly health department report, bringing the total number in the county to 959. Of those, 743 [Read More]
The score is COVID-19 1, High School Sports 0, but the game isn’t over yet. High school football will not be played until February, according to a decision handed down by the NC High School [Read More]
Donald Smith is expected to begin collection leaf and limb debris at Lake Waccamaw later this month. The town commissioners Tuesday approved a contract with Smith to provide vegetative debris removal at $7.65 per household. [Read More]
Damon Kempski was sworn in today as the new town manager for Lake Waccamaw. He was hired Tuesday night by a unanimous vote from the board of commissioners. “We did not waste any time,” Mayor [Read More]
Lake Waccamaw voters will get the chance to decide whether to allow liquor by the drink and on-premises sale and consumption of beer and wine this fall. Mayor Daniel Hilburn said the three measures – [Read More]
See related, updated story for the latest data. Columbus County reported 908 confirmed COVID 19 cases in its twice-weekly report today (Monday). The health department updates local data every Monday and Thursday. Today’s report showed [Read More]
The town of Lake Waccamaw has issued a boil water order for homes from the 2600 Canal Cove Road to the end of Waccamaw Shores. The order does not include Wooded Acres. A leaking water [Read More]
The updated hurricane forecast Thursday from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) increased the anticipated number of storms in the Atlantic Basin. The estimated number of named storms increased from 12 to a range [Read More]
State numbers show 27 more cases here since Monday, while the county reports 34. Columbus County saw two more COVID-19 related deaths since Monday, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). [Read More]
High School sports remain in limbo after Gov. Roy Cooper’s extension of the Phase Two COVID response on Wednesday. Sports are still on hold in North Carolina High Schools, and will remain that way until [Read More]
Gov. Cooper praises progress, urges caution Phase Two of the COVID-19 lockdown will continue for five weeks in North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper said in a press conference today. Cooper said the state has shown [Read More]
Free COVID-19 testing sites willa open in several communities in the next week. On Aug. 7, Fair Bluff Town Hall from 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m., then the Buckhead fire department from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Aug. 8 there [Read More]
A dangerous intersection in Columbus County will soon become a four-way stop. The Department of Transportation announced today (Wednesday) that the intersection of U.S. 76 and N.C. 242 in downtown Cerro Gordo will become a [Read More]
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