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Thomas Jeferson (Chadwick Lewis), right is appalled by greedy businessman Bob McGuffin, portrayed by G.Wayne Melvin, who is seeking political office, one of the many comic scenes in the latest SCT performance, 'Lost on the Fourth of July.' This is the final weekend of the show. Performance dates are tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. (Tom Wilbur/SCT)
Work continues to bring Oz to life on theater stage
Although there were no Munchkins present at rehearsals this week, it was evident that a lot of work has progressed with backdrops half-painted and the cast almost half-knowing their lines. Present was Lucy Lockamy playing the part of “Dorothy Gale,” Logan Tart as “Glinda the Good Witch of the North,” Lily Turlington as “the Wicked Witch of the West” and Clay Boney as “the Cowardly Lion” who needs courage, Chad Lewis as “the Tin Man” who needs...
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City proposes no tax hike for 2013-14
The proposed 2013-14 budget for the City of Clinton is trimmed down significantly from the current year’s amended plan, and includes no tax hike, slight rises to water and sewer rates and a small increase to solid waste fees. Presented this week, the 2013-14 plan proposes $500,000 to expand and renovate the Public Works facilities, as well as a financial software upgrade and the implementation of a new performance appraisal system that will...
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Sampson Middle Parent Night — being held Tuesday, May 21, 6 p.m. in the SMS cafeteria. All students, including rising sixth-graders, and their parents are invited. Topics to be discussed include 4-H; Camp Lead-Up; Sampson Arts Council; Daycare programs; CHS sports summer camps and workouts; summer feeding program and much more. FMI, call 592-3327. The Sampson County Branch of the NAACP — will meet Monday, May 20, 6:30 p.m. at First Bapt...
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Crimewatch
Arrests/Citations 5/15 - Shane McKoy, 20, 540 Beaver Dam Road, Clinton, domestic assault on a female. No bond (48 hour hold); court date May 28. 5/15 - Malik Faison, 16, 84 Livingston Lane, Clinton, financial card fraud. Bond $500; court date June 12. 5/15 - Jermaine Monte Cruz, 19, 84 Livingston Lane, Clinton, financial card fraud. Bond $3,000; court date June 12. 5/15 - Phillip Glenn Lee, 56, 6488 Hobbton Hwy., Clinton, trespassin...
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Oscar Bennett, Tonya Bennett and Della Middleton of Mr. Window Soup Kitchen sort through hundreds of pounds of food collected by postal carriers, and courtesy of Sampson residents' donations, that will help them provide meals for the needy. 'This is such a blessing,' said Middleton of the collected food. (Sherry Matthews/Sampson Independent)
Stamping out hunger
Della Middleton’s eyes lit up as she examined the tall postal roll cart laden with non-perishable food items, earmarked specifically for her organization, Mr. Window Soup Kitchen. “This will make such a difference,” she attested as she and volunteers Tonya Bennett and Oscar Bennett prepared to load their portion of 2,150 pounds of food collected by Clinton and Sampson mail carriers during last Saturday’s Stamp Out Hunger campaign conducted ...
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SCC kicks off annual Giving Campaign The Sampson Community College Foundation has kicked off the 2013 Annual Giving Campaign this month with a Steak or Beans Challenge. Annual Giving Chairmen Lyman Horne and Steve Stefanovich, pictured above, are motivating their teams of Foundation directors to raise the most money to support student scholarships and program funding. The winner will earn a steak, and the loser will eat beans at the annual meeting. Contributions can be made to either Team Lyman or Team Steve at SCC Foundation, PO Box 318, Clinton, NC 28329. (Brandon Wiggins/SCC)
SCC kicks off annual Giving Campaign
Brandon Wiggins/SCC The Sampson Community College Foundation has kicked off the 2013 Annual Giving Campaign this month with a Steak or Beans Challenge. Annual Giving Chairmen Lyman Horne and Steve Stefanovich, pictured above, are motivating their teams of Foundation directors to raise the most money to support student scholarships and program funding. The winner will earn a steak, and the loser will eat beans at the annual meeting. Contribu...
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Clinton City band students recognized During its May board meeting, Clinton City Schools recognized the following students for placing in the 2013 NC Southeastern All-District Concert Band: Turner Edwards (1st Chair Trombone), Sarah Day (1st Chair Bassoon), Jessica Hamilton 1st Chair French Horn), Jasmine Sampson (2nd Chair Bass Clarinet), Mary Johnson (2nd Chair Mallets), Charles Jordan (5th Chair Tuba), DaCiya Solice (8th Chair French Horn), Kristal McCalop (18th Chair Clarinet), and Kristian McCalop (20th Chair Clarinet). (Lauren Williams/Sampson Independent)
Clinton City band students recognized
Lauren Williams/Sampson Independent During its May board meeting, Clinton City Schools recognized the following students for placing in the 2013 NC Southeastern All-District Concert Band: Turner Edwards (1st Chair Trombone), Sarah Day (1st Chair Bassoon), Jessica Hamilton 1st Chair French Horn), Jasmine Sampson (2nd Chair Bass Clarinet), Mary Johnson (2nd Chair Mallets), Charles Jordan (5th Chair Tuba), DaCiya Solice (8th Chair French Horn)...
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Roseboro mayor David Alexander was hesitant to allow citizens to keep chickens in town because he fears that if the law is changed for chickens then others may come forward wanting the town to make allowances for livestock animals. At the mayor's recommendation, the town board decided to hold a public hearing before making any decisions. (Lauren Williams/Sampson Independent)
R’boro resident wants town to welcome chickens
A Roseboro citizen came before town commissioners during Tuesday night’s meeting to encourage the board to allow citizens to keep chickens within the town limits, a practice the town’s laws currently prohibit. With a petition signed by 127 people and with pages of information detailing the advantages of allowing urban chickens, Steven Heath shared with the town board the details of his request. According to Heath, citizens should be allow...
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Planning together with vision
As I reflect on my time in the N.C. Rural Center’s REDI, Rural Economic Development Institute, one theme has reverberated throughout many conversations — working with others in community-based visioning and planning. During the REDI program, we discovered the “iceberg conception of the nature of culture.” We separated surface culture which is the “televised view,” folk culture, and deep culture which is what helps solve many problems. While...
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ECNO Oil Chamber's Member of the Week The Chamber Member of the Week is ECNO Oil/JW Transport, located at 2427 Hobbton Hwy. in Clinton. Established by Cliff Williford in 1981, ECNO Oil Inc is family owned and operated. As a petroleum marketer, ECNO Oil specializes in wholesale and retail of gasoline and fuel oil, including biodiesel with 9 transporters serving North Carolina. For more information about ECNO Oil Inc/JW Transport, contact Jason Williford at 910-592-7733 or e-mail ecnooil@ intrstar.net. For more information about the Clinton-Sampson Chamber of Commerce call 910-592-6177 or visit www.clintonsampsonchamber.org. (Courtesy photo)
ECNO Oil Chamber’s Member of the Week
Courtesy photo The Chamber Member of the Week is ECNO Oil/JW Transport, located at 2427 Hobbton Hwy. in Clinton. Established by Cliff Williford in 1981, ECNO Oil Inc is family owned and operated. As a petroleum marketer, ECNO Oil specializes in wholesale and retail of gasoline and fuel oil, including biodiesel with 9 transporters serving North Carolina. For more information about ECNO Oil Inc/JW Transport, contact Jason Williford at 910-592...
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Martha C. Mills
New Century promotes Mills
DUNN — New Century Bank named Martha C. Mills as cash management and product development officer, announced Lisa F. Campbell, executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief operating officer. “Cash management is important to our business customers,” Campbell said. “It is critical that we support this area and Martha is the right person to lead these efforts. She has great experience and the right focus — mainly that education o...
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CHS parents, students urged to attend SCC information program
On Tuesday, May 21, Toni Blount, college advisor and scholars coordinator from Clinton High School, will host an event entitled, “Sampson Community College Information Program” at 6 p.m. in the auditorium and atrium of Clinton High School. The program, Blount said, is designed to assist seniors who have applied for fall admissions, seniors who have not applied yet but are interested in applying, and any students who will be taking courses a...
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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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Shawn Purvis, who has served as Clinton's assistant manager since 2008 and assumed the finance officer role in 2011, will serve as interim city manager while the city searches for John Connet's replacement. (Chris Berendt/Sampson Independent)
Purvis gets nod as interim city manager
Assistant city manager Shawn Purvis has been tapped as interim city manager, to manage day-to-day operations while the city searches for John Connet’s successor. Connet, who has served as Clinton’s city manager since July 2002, accepted the manager post for the City of Hendersonville last month, beating out 85 other applicants for the position. He will serve his last day as Clinton’s manager on May 24 and begin in the Hendersonville capacit...
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Ponce receives Bradshaw scholarship
Michael Mozingo, administrator of the Edith Bradshaw Scholarship, recently announced that this year’s recipient is Ms. Paolo Ponce. The award in the amount of $1,500 was presented to Ponce at the 9 a.m. mass at St. Mary of the Angels Catholic Church in Mount Olive, on Mother’s Day, May 12. Ponce is the daughter of Juan and Rosalbo Ponce of Seven Springs. She is a senior at Spring Creek High School where she is ranked 6th in her class and is...
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Crimewatch
Arrests/Citations 5/14 - John W. Royal, 29, Odum Road, Clinton, unauthorized use of a vehicle. Bond $3,000; court date Jun3 7. 5/14 - Justin Reginald Cromartie, 19, 980 Gibbs Road, Garland, larceny. Bond $1,000; court date June 10. 5/14 - Jeffery Allen Hobbs, 36, 310 East Roseboro St., Roseboro, second degree trespassing. Bond $1,000; court date May 21. 5/14 - Justin Clint Spell, 17, 1317 Chancey Road, Clinton, simple assault. Bond ...
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Six of the seven Built Ford Tough – FFA Scholarship winners met with Ford of Clinton owner Larry McPhail this week. From left to right are: Sarah Brewer, Hunter Johnson, Britnie Adams, Ford of Clinton owner Larry McPhail, John Jackson, Adam Bryant and Madison Pope.
Ford of Clinton awards FFA scholarships
Seven Sampson County high school seniors have each earned $1,000 FFA scholarships thanks to Ford of Clinton and the Ford Motor Company. The scholarships are the result of a Ford Motor Company initiative called the Built Ford Tough- FFA Scholarship Program and it’s designed to recognize FFA members’ talents and accomplishments while encouraging future academic achievement. The students who earned the award are: • Joanna Rackley, Hobbton HS...
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