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Prayer walk in Tabor City
Rain did not deter these prayer warriors from a prayer walk in Tabor City Saturday morning. Walking followed comments and prayer under the sheltered Ritz Plaza Stage, and ended at Tabor City Elementary School after walking down Orange Street, Pireway and Stake roads. What was it all for? See the April 2…
Read MoreSpringfest Cleanup reset for April 12
Cleaning up Tabor City’s west side in advance of the 2nd annual Springfest event has been rescheduled until the April 5 celebration, with threatening weather getting the blame. A front that was beginning to bring rain to the area Friday afternoon had forecasters calling for a 100 percent chance of precipitation on Saturday,…
Read MoreSparks end a bus ride
Sparks and smoke from the rear of a Green Sea Floyds school bus cut short the ride for six students, driver Annie Rouse said. There were no sparks and the students from elementary, middle school and high school grades were quickly evacuated, and soon on a second bus and on their way to…
Read MoreThat’s odd
More than a month after ice from a winter storm downed trees, limbs and power lines, and plunged thousands in the region in the dark, Tabor City Fire Chief Jerry Hodges on Thursday discovered more damage. Responding to what proved to be a small brush fire behind this Dorman Street house, Hodges found…
Read MoreFirefighter’s death ruled line of duty
By JOYCE GRAHAM & DEUCE NIVEN A line-of-duty death benefit has been awarded to the widow of Loris Fire Department Assistant Chief Rodney Hardee. Donella Hardee received the $25,000 check at the Loris Pubic Safety Building Tuesday evening. A representative of the South Carolina State Firefighter’s Association made the presentation. For the…
Read MoreGunshot strikes Loris man
By DEUCE NIVEN Gunfire near Maple Street left a Loris man injured and police looking for information Monday night, Loris Police Chief Joseph Vaught said. Lavond Daniels, 57, was a visitor in the mobile home located on Railroad Street at Maple Street when he was struck by “at least” one bullet about 9…
Read MoreHe’s part of newspaper’s history
Story & Photo By JOYCE GRAHAM It’s been more than a half-century since Marvin White walked the streets of Tabor City, selling The Tabor City Tribune copies each week for founder W. Horace Carter. Now, some 45-years after leaving Tabor City, the former paperboy says he still treasures the experience. Read his…
Read MoreCelebrate the Arts Saturday at ECHS
Celebrate the Arts, billed as North Carolina’s largest student arts festival, is this Sunday at East Columbus High School in Lake Waccamaw. Scheduled from 5 to 9:30 p.m., Celebrate the Arts will bring students in grades 6 through 12 to the East Columbus campus for classes and clinics on Friday and Saturday, capped…
Read MorePostal clerk pleads, ordered to pay back $16K
A former postal clerk has been ordered to pay restitution of $16,828 to the U.S. Post Office in Tabor City in a plea deal with prosecutors, Columbus County court records show. Georganna Gore, 46, of Garland Cox Road, Tabor City was also fined $250 on the misdemeanor larceny plea. A 30-day jail term…
Read MoreDrugs denied, she stabbed boyfriend’s butt, police say
By DEUCE NIVEN An assault charge followed the stabbing of a Tabor City man Sunday after he refused to hand over prescription medication to his girlfriend, a Tabor City Police Department report said. Angela Nichole Phillips, 25, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury following the Sunday afternoon incident…
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