Area News

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Pre-pandemic visitation rules have been restored at Columbus Regional Healthcare System, specifically at the flagship hospital in Whiteville.      Regular Visitation Policy was restored Tuesday, announced in a news release Wednesday morning.      “We are very thankful to be able to return to normal visitation for our patients and their families,” said CRHS…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Tabor Correctional Institution has a new warden with Jamie Jordan promoted to the prison’s top post.      Bullard’s promotion was announced by the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice, a North Carolina Department of Public Safety news release said Monday. He had been the associate warden for custody at the prison…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      An Horry County Schools student has been charged criminally and faces sanctions from the district after a loaded AR15 assault style rifle was found in his car on the campus of the Academy for Technology & Academics (ATA) on Wednesday, the district announced on Friday.      Dontarrius Livingston, 18, of Longs was…

Story & Photos By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Going the extra mile might well have been the theme for the annual Greater Tabor City Chamber of Commerce banquet on Tuesday, with Michelle Dudney named Citizen of the year, Tony “Blake” Watts named volunteer of the year, and NC Yam Festival Manager Cynthia Nelson also honored, albeit…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Indicted former Chadbourn Police Chief William Anthony Spivey will have his day in a Columbus County courtroom, likely many, following his arrest outside a Loris area apartment early Thursday, three days after he was reported missing on the Lumber River near Fair Bluff.      Spivey, 36, is awaiting trial on 110 felony…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Speed was a factor in a single-vehicle crash that claimed the life of a Tabor City man Sunday evening, First Sgt. Andrew Pate of the North Carolina Highway Patrol said.      Laramie Stanley, 24, died on the scene of the crash that was reported at 7:14 p.m. on Will Inman Road about…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Columbus County Parks and Recreation will host its final community meeting as part of its Parks and Recreation System Master Plan process no Tuesday, Feb. 22.      Scheduled from 6:30 to 8 p.m., on the third floor at 127 West Webster Street in Whiteville. The meeting presentation will begin at 6:45 p.m.…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Law enforcement is on the hunt for a Longs man convicted Wednesday of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.      John Peter Kehborn, Jr., 48, failed to appear for his jury trial, which was held in his absence, said Assistant Solicitor George Henry Martin III of the 15th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Delayed by funding, groundwater, and the often slow moving wheels of government, ground was formally broken for the new Tabor City School on Thursday, the $28 million project on the site of the old Tabor City High, Tabor City Primary High, and Tabor City Elementary school expected to take a year…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A recent rash of snatch and run cigarette thefts from at least five Tabor City stores has prompted a warning from Police Chief Donald Dowless.      “Get the money first,” is the advice Dowless has for merchants, urging store owners to pass the message on to employees.      “We need to send a…