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Kennedy earns NC TEA Award Clinton High School teacher Susan Kennedy was recognized during Clinton City Schools' May board meeting for earning the 2012-2013 North Carolina Technology Education Association High School Program Excellence Award. It is one of the highest honors given to technology and engineering education classroom teachers in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession. (Lauren Williams/Sampson Independent)
Kennedy earns NC TEA Award
Lauren Williams/Sampson Independent Clinton High School teacher Susan Kennedy was recognized during Clinton City Schools’ May board meeting for earning the 2012-13 North Carolina Technology Education Association High School Program Excellence Award. It is one of the highest honors given to technology and engineering education classroom teachers in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession.
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Garland deputy clerk Jennifer Richardson reads a letter from a concerned citizen who received one of 37 tickets issued stating she was in violation of new rule that trash cans be removed from the curb and placed out of view from the street. A refund was later issued. (Chris Berendt/Sampson Independent)
Garland eases new trash can rule
GARLAND — After receiving some backlash from residents in response to a new ordinance imposing a $25 fee if trash cans were not removed by a certain time, the timeframe has been extended and a refund for one purposed violator was issued. During the Garland Board of Commissioners meeting this week, deputy town clerk Jennifer Richardson noted 37 pink violation slips issued in the first two weeks, with two payments received. “The first day o...
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Sampson County Public Works employees haul off the gas chamber Wednesday from the county's animal shelter, which the facility's director Alan Canady called 'a big day' for Sampson County, which has moved to humane lethal injection as a form of euthanasia. (Chris Berendt/Sampson Independent)
County puts chamber to sleep
After years of operation, the gas chamber at the Sampson County Animal Shelter is no more. It was dismantled Wednesday morning and hauled away from its location at the rear of the shelter facility to the salvage yard, the culmination of work by shelter officials that began in earnest last year. “It has been long and tedious work but I think the public needs to see that Sampson County Animal Shelter does care about the animals in every asp...
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Stylist Rose Soto prepares to snip off one section of Rosemary Hunter's hair. Hunter, who turned 66 Wednesday, decided she would offer her hair to Locks of Love, a way, she said, of giving back. (Sherry Matthews/Sampson Independent)
A birthday gift
Rosemary Hunter wanted to do something special for her 66th birthday, something that would be her gift to others. Armed with that desire, the Sampson Regional pediatric nurse, along with a few of her close friends, headed downtown Clinton to Bill’s Beauty Shop where Hunter offered up 12 inches of her black and gray tresses, a sacrifice so cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy would have an opportunity at wigs designed just for them. Sit...
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