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Leads sought in shotgun slaying

Columbus County’s first homicide of 2006 was recorded Saturday when Mickey Ray Hayes, 59, of Peanut Worley Road south of Cerro Gordo, was killed by a single shotgun blast to the head.

Friday crash kills man,
second vehicle set ablaze

A head-on crash in a light rain Friday night, Jan. 13, on Smyrna Road just west of Whiteville took the life of William Lloyd Martin, 72, of Smyrna Road, who was returning to his home after driving to the nearby Citgo convenience store to purchase a pack of cigarettes.
Staff photo by Lee Hinnant

Calista Hall of the consulting firm PBS&J fields questions from residents about plans for the South Whiteville intersection improvements. DOT engineer Drew Cox gestures and does the same for others in the background.

Drivers OK with
intersection plan

Whiteville-area residents seemed generally pleased Thursday with the state’s plans for a new connector road and other improvements at the junctions of U.S. 701 Bypass, N.C. 130 and South Madison Street.

Residents asking for county water service

Paul Avery, a resident of Clarendon-Chadbourn Road, is upset. He has to pay county Water District 2 taxes even though he doesn’t have access to the water line.

New school fees

The Columbus County Board of Education approved several changes in its fee structure for the use of school facilities by the general public during its Jan. 9 meeting.

Williams school construction on schedule

It looks like the nearly 700 displaced students at Williams Township Elementary School will be in their new school next fall.
Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist

Speechless
Mime Terry Strickland performs “Moses” during Gospel Fest Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Friday, an event that has become a local tradition to kick off the national holiday for the orator and civil rights leader.
Did you observe...

Minnie Pearl eating at Dale’s at Lake Waccamaw Saturday night? Got’ya, Renie Jones … Juanita Stanley asking top Department of Transportation officials for a sidewalk along East Washington Street? DOT has the right of way but it would be the City of Whiteville’s responsibility to build a sidewalk, they responded …