Bladen We Care gets donation
By: Erin Smith Bladen We Care was the recipient of a donation from the Dublin Peanut Festival committee on Friday morning. “We appreciate all you all do,” said Peanut Festival Committee representative...
View ArticleLow scores recorded at Vineyard Golf
With the beautiful weather recently and the grass turning summer green there has been quite a few low scores recorded at Vineyard Golf At White Lake. Some of the low scores were: Jim Hancock 76, Brian...
View ArticleBladen Online welcomes Interns for the summer
DoraBrogdon KatieGalyean By: Erin Smith BladenOnline.com is proud to welcome two interns for the summer. Dora Brogdon was selected to serve as our High School Intern and Katie Galyean was selected to...
View ArticleDuke Energy inks second innovative swine waste power deal in 2016
Duke Energy announced today it has finalized a second deal in 2016 to buy captured methane gas derived from swine waste. The planned project will be at farms in Kenansville, N.C. The project will use...
View ArticleState Employees’ Credit Union Members Award $10,000 Scholarship to Area High...
State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) members via the SECU Foundation, presented a $10,000 four-year college scholarship to Charlanna E. Coleman, a senior at East Bladen High School. This scholarship...
View ArticleFirefighter Academy graduates first class of students
FireAcademy5 FireAcademy2 FireAcademy6 FireAcademy3 FireAcademy1 FireAcademy4 By: Valerie Newton On Thursday, May 26, in the Bladen County Superior Courtroom, 30 students from East Bladen and West...
View ArticleElizabethtown Optimist Club to be Represented in Optimist Junior Golf Tournament
Cade Hamilton 2 Cade Hamilton 1 The Elizabethtown Optimist Club is proud to sponsor 15 year old Cade Hancock, son of Jim and Polly Hancock, to attend The Optimist Junior Golf tournament. As a Freshman...
View ArticleTar Heel Sirius Radio City of the Day
Tar Heel, NC is the Sirius Radio City of the day on channel 6, the sixties music channel. The Bladen County town was selected after the Carolina Tar Heel Lacrosse teams won the NCAA championships in...
View ArticlePaul R Brown Leadership Academy holds third annual Military Ball
MilitaryBall3 MilitaryBall2 MilitaryBall1 The Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy recently held its third annual Military Ball. The guest speaker for the dinner was LTC Carl T. Carter Jr. During the...
View ArticlePBLA holds Memorial Day service
PBLA13 PBLA12 PBLA11 PBLA9 PBLA8 PBLA7 PBLA6 PBLA5 PBLA4 PBLA3 PBLA2 PBLA1 PBLA 10 By: Erin Smith The Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy held a Memorial Day parade on Wednesday morning on the parade...
View ArticleOvercoming obstacles is message bestowed to youth at JCPC Youth Recognition...
JCPC10 JCPCLuncheon6 JCPCLuncheon1 JCPCLuncheon7 JCPCLuncheon5 JCPCLuncheon9 JCPCLuncheon8 JCPCLuncheon4 By: Erin Smith In life, we all encounter those obstacles that give us pause and at times, can...
View ArticleBladenboro Primary PTO celebrates Teacher Appreciation Week
BboroPTO7 BboroPTO6 BboroPTO5 BboroPrimary4 BboroPrimaryPTO3 BboroPrimary5 BboroPrimaryPTO2 BboroPrimaryPTO The Bladenboro Primary School PTO showed their appreciation for the faculty and staff during...
View ArticleRestaurants, meal delivery service competing for best menu featuring N.C....
Fourteen restaurants and a meal delivery service are competing in the 2016 “Dig into Local” Best Menu NC contest sponsored by the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The contest...
View ArticleMurchison named to UNC-Pembroke Honors List for Spring
Nyiesha Kierra Murchsion has been named to the University of North Carolina at Pembroke’s Honors List for Spring 2016. To qualify for this honor, a student must attain a semester grade point average of...
View ArticleCommissioners receive Covenant of the Seven Seals
By: Erin Smith The Bladen County Board of Commissioners was presented the Covenant of the Seven Seals award by Darrell Page, and Lt. Col. Retired Roy Allen. Page told the board that the award...
View ArticleDon’t forget to vote
Today is Election Day all across North Carolina. Polls opened at 6:30 a.m. today (Tuesday, June 7) and will close at 7:30 p.m. Don’t forget to bring your photo identification with you. For acceptable...
View ArticleCouncil of State Approves $200 Million Connect NC Bond Issuance and Sale
The Council of State unanimously approved a resolution today for the issuance and sale of $200 million in bonds to support the Connect NC investments in our state’s education, parks, National Guard,...
View ArticlePBLA to hold third Stand Down ceremony Thursday
The Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy will conduct its third Stand Down Ceremony at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 9, at Bladen Community College. The academy will award cadets academic, physical fitness,...
View ArticleThoughts While Shaving for June 8
A brief look at results of Tuesday’s Presidential Primaries: California Clinton 56.3% Sanders 42.7% Montana Sanders 51.0 % Clinton 44.6% New Jersey Clinton 63.3% Sanders...
View ArticleSeniors get to spend time at Prom
SeniorProm SrCenter By Katie Galyean On June 28th, Bladen County’s senior citizens will have an afternoon to remember – they are going to prom. From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., the county’s seniors will...
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