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Window view

Workers for Mascot Homes guide a dormer to a home off Union Valley Road Saturday. They assembled the three-bedroom modular home in two days.

Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist


State to
four-lane
N.C. 87

State transportation planners are getting serious about four-laning N.C. 87 from Delco to Elizabethtown, but drivers shouldn’t expect to see the improvements for at least another six years.


Wire maker
Conflandey
to shut down

Columbus County got a hard blow to start the New Year Friday when Conflandey employees were told the wire manufacturer would shut down its Whiteville operations at Southeast Regional (Industrial) Park and leave 58 workers unemployed.

The French company will close.

Bracey earns national certification

Marilyn Bracey is Nationally Board Certified. A counselor at Fairmont Middle School, the Oak Dale resident said she is elated and relieved to finally have her certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.


A brush with death

This past summer, County Solid Waste Supervisor Chuck Stanley mounted a bulldozer off China Grove Road and helped build a solid waste convenience center.


One of Columbus Regional Healthcare’s Dropaton teams gives the Dropaton grand prize a little attention last week. The used pickup truck, donated by Quality Ford, will be given away during Lose-a-Palooza Friday evening at SCC. Shown are Bill Clark, Vickie Shelley, Hardy Ledbetter, Terrie Priest and Ginger Scott.

Friday fest caps Drop-a-ton effort

For one year, Columbus County residents have been walking, working out and watching their diets in a community project with an ambitious challenge to lose a whole ton of weight.


Did you observe...

Andy Smith, an employee of Andy’s Restaurant, shouting for help after locking himself out during business hours? … Lose-a-Palooza organizers announcing they’ll give away one ton of gasoline to a single winner Friday at SCC?