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Friday Feature: March 4, 2022 By: Vinny Pagano I do not know if you have realized that I am a baseball fan, besides a sportswriter. That means there is some emotion behind my words when I ...
Elections Board to meet this afternoon to determine next step. No one filed to run for the Whiteville City Council seat held by Tim Blackmon by the noon deadline today. The county Board of Elections w...
A midnight quest for a cigarette ended badly for an Ash man Tuesday morning. Ivan Yanez, 21, was arrested and charged with assault on a government official, resisting an officer, indecent exposur...
The Season Opener At Fairmont on 3/2/22: It was a great evening for baseball as the 2022 Whiteville Wolfpack season got underway. The sky was clear and there was almost no breeze as the Wolfpack...
A local couple with four children could soon be reunited – in court. Heliodoro Noyola Jr., 34, was returned to Columbus County Wednesday after he was arrested in Conway Feb. 6. Noyola faces charges of...
As prisons fight to recruit and keep corrections officers across the state, a Salisbury company will soon bring a number of high-paying jobs to Columbus Correctional. P&G Kiker Security has provid...
Former Elections Supervisor said she “did not know” she was filing retirement papers. Carla Strickland said she is “not worried” about a computer drive turned over to federal investigators Tuesday. “I...
The Brown Street Station in Chadbourn will follow their ribbon cutting on March 5 with a nod to first responders. The venue is offering free tickets to the “Them Sweeney Boys” 3 p.m. show to firefight...
The Columbus County Shrine Club will be having their annual golf tournament on Friday, April 22 at the Land-O-Lakes Golf Course. Registration will begin at 10 a.m., and 11 a.m. is the shotgun start. &...
Another roundabout could be coming to Columbus County roadways. The state Transportation Department (DOT) is recommending the construction of a roundabout at the intersection of N.C. 11 and Old Lake R...
UPDATED 4:09 p.m. Multiple sources have confirmed that federal agents seized a computer at the Columbus County Board of Elections this morning (Tuesday). The computer hard drive was taken from the wor...
A fight Friday ended with the death of a Lake Waccamaw area man. The sheriff’s office reported that Luke Simmons, 39, died after he fell and hit his head during a fight with another man, whose name ha...
A Chadbourn woman is in New Hanover Regional after a single-vehicle wreck Saturday, and a trooper is getting credit for saving her life. First Sgt. Andrew Pait of the Highway Patrol said Trooper Trevo...
It was the second and final scrimmage of the Whiteville Wolfpack Varsity Baseball 2022 season as the West Brunswick Trojans came into town for the first home action at Legion Stadium. It was like a mi...
THE COLUMBUS CONNECTION with Jefferson Weaver is a weekly public affairs program produced in, for, and about Columbus County NC. Each week Jefferson and his In-Studio Guests discuss topics of interest...
If you have never heard about Whiteville’s Vocational Rehabilitation Services (WVRS), then you or a loved may be missing out on a great opportunity. As part of downtown’s revitalization project, the c...