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Lakewood group heading to Costa Rica

SALEMBURG — Lakewood High School’s Travel Club is continuing success with students having fun in Costa Rica. The adventure for students started Monday. Chelsie Conn Hall, a math teacher and co-founder of the organization, recently [...]
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Officials offer heat warnings

Temperatures across central North Carolina are expected to reach the upper 90s over the course of the next few days, prompting officials with the National Weather Service to issue heat advisories and warnings throughout the [...]
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STEAM camp urges out-of-box thinking

Rising ninth-grade students worked diligently last week to investigate the DNA of a strawberry — an activity most high school students don’t know much about. The activity, along with many others, was a small part [...]
Education

District awaits state budget outcome

As Sampson County School leaders wait to receive a budget from the state, operations are planning to move forward through a continuing resolution. Stephen Britt, SCS finance officer, recently presented an update on the district’s [...]
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Checkpoint nets 146 charges

A Friday night checkpoint that involved state and local agencies resulted in well over 100 violations doled out during the five-hour mult-agency effort. There were 28 officers from five law enforcement agencies, as well as [...]

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