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SCC Offers Free Student Haircuts

August 19, 2025 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on SCC Offers Free Student Haircuts

Southeastern Community College’s Cosmetology Salon and Spa will give free haircuts to students heading back to school this fall. Head Cosmetology Instructor Eli Murillo is looking forward to helping children “feel special and great” when [Read More]

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Commissioners Send PUDs Back to Planning Board

August 19, 2025 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Commissioners Send PUDs Back to Planning Board

After multiple questions from residents, county commissioners Monday sent two rezoning requests back to the planning board for more work, and ordered the county staff to begin work on repealing the planned unit development ordinance. [Read More]

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Mill Branch Man Jailed on Child Sex Charges

August 18, 2025 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Mill Branch Man Jailed on Child Sex Charges

State and federal agents, working alongside the sheriff’s office, arrested an alleged child sex offender today (Monday). The State Bureau of Investigation said Dusty Paul Matthews is being held under no bond, facing five counts [Read More]

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Registration Repair’ Underway with Voter Rolls

August 18, 2025 Columbus County News Comments Off on Registration Repair’ Underway with Voter Rolls

The first wave of mailings is now going out to North Carolina voters who need to provide their driver’s license number (DL#) or last four digits of their social security number (SSN4) as part of [Read More]

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Tabor Talk for August 20, 2025

August 18, 2025 Columbus County News Comments Off on Tabor Talk for August 20, 2025

By Cynthia Steven Nelson Greater Tabor City Chamber How has your summer been treating you?  It has certainly been a hot one!  We hope you all have found some time to enjoy the summer break [Read More]

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Wrong-way Driver Gets Directions to Jail

August 18, 2025 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Wrong-way Driver Gets Directions to Jail

Deputies arrested a man Saturday after he allegedly went the wrong way on a busy highway, then refused to cooperate with law enforcement. Shannon Worrell, 52, of 719 Whitehall Rd., Whiteville, was released on $500 [Read More]

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SCC Breaks Ground on Transportation Tech Building

August 18, 2025 Columbus County News Comments Off on SCC Breaks Ground on Transportation Tech Building

Staff photos by Laura Norton   Southeastern Community College broke ground this morning on a new $22 million, 22,000 sq. ft. Transportation Technology STEM Building on the campus. Dr. Chris English of SCC said the [Read More]

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Whiteville Bandit Faces Charges from 2014

August 18, 2025 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Whiteville Bandit Faces Charges from 2014

A convicted felon who robbed three Whiteville retailers in 2014 and fled to Florida is back home, awaiting trial. Andre Alexander Freeman, 36, was released by Florida authorities into custody of Whiteville Police Aug. 7, [Read More]

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Councilwoman Holden Charged with DWI

August 17, 2025 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Councilwoman Holden Charged with DWI

Updated 4 p.m. Aug. 18. Whiteville City Council woman Helen B. Holden was arrested this morning (Sunday) for driving while impaired. Holden, 49, was released on $1,500 unsecured bond, according to Detention Center records. Her [Read More]

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Motorcyclist Dies in Delco

August 16, 2025 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Motorcyclist Dies in Delco

The county’s seventh highway fatality this evening (Saturday) claimed the life of a Spring Lake man. William Washington Jr., 50, was driving his 2015 Harley Davidson at a high rate of speed when he rear [Read More]

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Service Honors Lake Youth

August 16, 2025 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Service Honors Lake Youth

Landyn Jacobs was remembered tonight (Saturday) with a sunset service at Elizabeth Brinkley Park. The rising East Columbus High School senior died Thursday in a single vehicle wreck on Canal Cove Drive at Lake Waccamaw. [Read More]

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Public Hearings Monday on Two Developments

August 15, 2025 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Public Hearings Monday on Two Developments

Two planned unit developments are scheduled for public hearings Monday at the county commissioners meeting. The proposed Coleman Tract will be the site of a planned unit development with 190 single family and duplex homes, [Read More]

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USDA Urges Public to Watch for Invasive Beetle

August 15, 2025 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on USDA Urges Public to Watch for Invasive Beetle

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has declared August as Tree Check Month for Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB).  August is the best time of year to check for adult beetles that have emerged from trees. [Read More]

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Probationer Awaiting Trial Arrested Again

August 15, 2025 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Probationer Awaiting Trial Arrested Again

Citizen complaints about drug sales in Bladenboro led to the arrest of a convicted felon who was awaiting trial on other charges today (Aug. 15.) Charles Matthew Outlaw, 43 of 100 Lewis St., Bladenboro, was [Read More]

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Drug Suspect Arrested While on Bond

August 15, 2025 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Drug Suspect Arrested While on Bond

A repeat drug offender who was out on bond was returned to jail Wednesday after another drug arrest. Julia Rebecca Jordan, 42, was held under no bond, charged with simple possession of narcotics. She was [Read More]

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Raleigh Man Jailed for Refusing to Leave Jail

August 15, 2025 Jefferson Weaver Comments Off on Raleigh Man Jailed for Refusing to Leave Jail

A Raleigh man got what he apparently wanted when he refused to leave the Columbus County Detention Center Wednesday: more time in jail. Babatunde Okunsokan, 27, of Raleigh, was charged with two counts of second [Read More]

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