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Thursday, January 19, 2006
Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist

A Korean soybean processor is expected to purchase the five-year-old shell building at Southeast Regional (Industrial) Park. The company will be making food products in the fall, local officials said.

County lands soy processor

South Korean-based investors intend to create a start-up company in Columbus County that will manufacture soybean-based foods for export to Asian markets, state and local officials said Wednesday.
Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist

All you can eat

There must be something good about the hay at the top of the bale for this goat to reach way up there. These kids, found off Georgia Pacific Road, are enjoying an outdoor picnic during unseasonably pleasant weather.

Pitch
for toll
on I-74

Two area legislators and a Brunswick County property owners group are pushing for the proposed Interstate 74 to become one of a handful of highways that could be built and maintained by tolls.

Mobile home
restrictions
removed by
commissioners

A moratorium on the placement of manufactured homes in subdivisions was lifted Tuesday night when commissioners unanimously voted to suspend a portion of a county ordinance that new County Planner Stevie Cox interpreted in a way that required roads to be paved to N.C. Department of Transportation (DOT) standards for paved roads.

City school earns coveted rating

Whiteville Primary School’s pre-kindergarten (pre-K) program has been licensed by the state and given a five-star rating, the highest possible score.

Court order snips string of civil suits

Superior Court Judge Ola Lewis has blocked a Cerro Gordo man from filing any more civil complaints as a pauper after she reviewed several of his recent actions and found them to be “… incoherent, without logic or reason, and have no basis in law and all complaints lack merit.”
Did you observe...

New Whiteville First Presbyterian Church Pastor Josh Bower dancing in front of the produce at Food Lion? … Lois Yoder winning a bunch of bottled water at Drop A Ton festivities at SCC last week? … Banana pudding served as the dessert at Dewey Hill’s appreciation banquet? Hill sells the fruit in his stores for $1 for three pounds … 34 people waiting Wednesday at the Driver’s License office because only one examiner was working?…
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