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On the heels of action taken by the town council on Thursday evening, Town of Wallace workers are now in the clear to begin enforcing a long-discussed new ordinance to rid the town of nuisance and abandoned vehicles.
Thursday, Sept. 23
KENANSVILLE — The 5th Blue, Brew & ‘Que Festival took place Saturday, Sept. 18 at the Duplin Events Center. This year the festival was held indoors.
KENANSVILLE - The first “Greek Day in the Park” will be Saturday, Sept. 25. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m at Kenan Park, NC 11 Highway in Kenansville. The rain date alternate is set for Oct. 2.
WALLACE — DeShelia Hall of Wallace, is a service manager with the Working Capital Fund, who was recently recognized for her contributions to the Office of Mission Support and dedication in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s mission of protecting human health and the environment…
KENANSVILLE — Official sources confirmed for the Duplin Times that former N.C. District Court Judge and Kenansville Lawyer Timothy Smith died Sept. 14. He was 61.
The following reports are for the week of Sept. 6 through Sept. 12.
Thursday, Sept. 16
Updated Sept. 17.
KENANSVILLE — In an effort to help Duplin County residents protect themselves against fraudulent activity, the Duplin County Register of Deeds office has implemented a Fraud Detection Notification service.
Sports Stories
BEULAVILLE – The new East Central 2A Conference does not have Clinton as a member.
NEWPORT – For the better part of 12 minutes, East Duplin played like a champion.
JACKSONVILLE—North Duplin was the big winner in sort of a battle of attrition Friday night.
WARSAW—Tim Grady hopes he never has to relive a time like the first month of his first season as varsity head football coach at James Kenan.
LITTLE RIVER, S.C. – “Cancel culture” has an entirely different meaning for high school football fans.
BEULAVILLE – Susan Raynor has help lift the East Duplin volleyball team off the floor.
CALYPSO – Figuring out the last time North Duplin and Wallace-Rose Hill volleyball teams were a combined 9-0 might be impossible. And there’s a chance it never happened.
HARRELLS – Make room for another kind of football at Harrells Christian Academy.
WALLACE – Wallace-Rose Hill football coach Kevin Motsinger said his team did not play anywhere near its peak potential last Friday night against Northside-Pinetown.
BURGAW – East Duplin acted quickly when Richlands called to say it would not have enough healthy players to field a team for the annual rivalry game between the two schools that are off N.C. 24.
Warsaw resident recognized for his dedicated service
Opinion Stories
Zac Campbell paused suddenly and took a minute to gather himself, while colleagues shuffled toward him to touch his back in support. The emotion that can accompany the act of baring one’s soul in front of a phalanx of TV cameras, photographers, and notepad-bearing journalists on a controvers…
Do the ends justify the means? This familiar question produces strong feelings precisely because its answer is necessarily complicated. Just about all of us admit to a scenario, such as the proverbial ticking time-bomb, in which we would countenance unsavory means if required to save lives. …
There’s no sugarcoating it: More that 50 percent of North Carolina’s school children failed to achieve grade-level expectations last year.
According to the most-recent ranking I can find, North Carolina requires state-approved licenses in more occupations (nearly 200) than most other states do. North Carolina licenses twice as many occupations as Virginia does, and three times as many as South Carolina.
About this time in the legislative session — when the session runs interminably long and little is happening — the press corps, lobbyists, legislative staffers and even some lawmakers start a pool to predict how long the session might last before adjournment. Currently, Halloween seems a pre…
“Why do you pick on Republicans so much? Don’t you know it was the Democrats who were the authors of Jim Crow?”
This is my last column, but not the last you’ll hear from me. I’m going to slip the bonds of a weekly deadline and write a book about my life and experiences in North Carolina politics.
It’s my go-to slide. I’ve shown it to all the classes I teach at Duke University. The slide is striking. It’s revealing.
In the game of chess, the pawn is the lowliest piece in the game. In life, a pawn is a person used by others for their own purposes. Most folks don’t even know when they are being manipulated like pawns.
In a nationwide Reuters/Ipsos poll taken on August 11 and 12, approximately 51% of Americans approved of President Joe Biden’s job performance, while 43% disapproved. Just one week later, the same pollster found a strikingly different result: 46% approval, 49% disapproval.
Features Stories
KENANSVILLE — The great football coach, Mike Ditka, was quoted having said, “Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” What a powerful and true statement. No matter what we achieve in life, the road by which we achieve i…
WARSAW — Laughter filled the air at the Warsaw Community Center as Duplin residents joined the Warsaw Police Department for their first-ever National Night Out event, which followed the remembrance service on Saturday, Sept. 11.
KENANSVILLE — The Duplin County Board of Education approved FY 2021-2022 recruitment and retention incentives for Duplin County Schools bus drivers and substitute teachers, during its regular meeting on Sept. 7.
Throughout Duplin County, members of the community gathered in remembrance of the 2,996 innocent lives lost during the 9/11 terrorist attack. After two decades, we still remember the fateful day that tested our nation’s resilience, solidarity and bravery in the wake of tragedy, destruction a…
KENANSVILLE — Amber Dail is James Sprunt Community College’s advertising and graphic design instructor and advisor. Dail, who has obtained years of experience in graphic design and communications, considers her position as the only full-time instructor for her program a tremendous honor.
Growing up as a preacher’s kid, I did not always listen closely to what he was saying from the pulpit. It did not occur to me that I might ever wish I could flip a switch and hear my dad preach again.
KENANSVILLE — The Blue, Brew & ‘Que Festival is back and set for Saturday, Sept. 18 at 11 a.m. at the Duplin Events Center.
In preparation for a continuing education seminar, I am reading How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, about leadership in a time of great transition. The way we used to do things doesn’t necessarily work well any more. A new way of doing things is not entirely clear. We find ou…
Jammie Royall, Mount Olive town manager, was notified about a fire at the Mount Olive Town Hall by Mount Olive police around 2:30 a.m. on Labor Day.
Recent events in Afghanistan and the southern border have obfuscated grievous civil rights violations in our own Capitol. Based upon various news sources and SKOPES, this is what we know about the Jan. 6 Trump supporters protesting election results: