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An update on Avian influenza (H7N9)
I am sure most of you have heard about the H7N9 strain of avian influenza outbreak in China. As of April 16, 2013, there were 63 cases of humans contracting the disease resulting in 14 deaths. I hope the following information will calm your concerns. Avian influenza is a disease of wild birds and domestic poultry caused by many different subtypes of Type A influenza virus. The natural reservoir for Type A influenza viruses is wild water bir...
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More than 43 tons of items not normally collected as part of regular garbage pick-up was taken off city curbs during last week's Spring Clean Up Week. Here, city street department employees Jordan Lassiter and Lionel Rayner haul off one of 74 mattresses and box springs discarded by residents. (Courtesy photo)
Clinton’s Clean Up campaign hauls in the trash
More than 43 tons of bulky items not normally picked up during regular garbage collection were discarded by residents and taken off curbs by the Clinton Public Works Department, which got a helping hand from state workers as part of the spring cleaning. The City of Clinton held its annual citywide Spring Clean Up effort throughout the week of April 15-19, with city crews collecting 43.3 tons of items curbside. Included in the amount collect...
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Union touts Student, Faculty Member of Month Union High School principal Ed Holmes, center, congratulates Union's Teacher of the Month for April, Brad Bass, and Student of the Month, Michelle Pineda. (Courtesy photo)
Union touts Student, Faculty Member of Month
Courtesy photo Union High School principal Ed Holmes, center, congratulates Union’s Teacher of the Month for April, Brad Bass, and Student of the Month, Michelle Pineda.
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Stephanie Hunter Davis
One dies, one charged following wreck
Yet another Sampson County life has been claimed at the hands of an alleged impaired driver, now charged in the fatal accident. Sharon Brayboy, 49, of 240 Daughtry Town Road, Clinton, died Saturday night when the vehicle she was a passenger in overturned and struck a ditch on Bucktown Road, near Keener Road. N.C. Highway Patrol Sgt. Bryan Smith said Brayboy was not belted in at the time of the accident. Charged in the fatal wreck is Ste...
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Johnny Ray Brockington
Burglary charge leveled
A Benson man was jailed Friday on three felonies, all connected to a complaint leveled by an employee whose surveillance camera pegged him as a suspect. Johnny Ray Brockington of 606 East Marion Ave., Benson, is facing felony burglary, felony larceny and felony possession of stolen property charges. In addition, he faces misdemeanor charges of larceny and possession of stolen goods. He was jailed under a $35,000 bond and a May 10 court da...
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Crimewatch
Arrests/Citations 4/25 - Kendall Craig Wooten, 57, 2120 maple Grove Church Road, Dunn, harassing phone calls, cyberstalking. Bond $1,000; court date May 28. 4/25 - Woodrow Sidney Taylor, 29, 738 Dunn Road, Roseboro, intoxicated and disruptive. Bond $1,000; court date May 16. 4/26 - Nasir Abdul, 27, Days Inn, assault on a female. Bond $5,000; court date May 23. 4/26 - Stephen Montrel Lewis, 30, 311 East Carter St., Clinton, failure t...
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Colorful landing Randy Lee’s hot air balloon company donated a flight to a charitable auction for a man with a heart condition. The balloon landed in Salemburg, close to Holland’s Chapel Church on Huntley School Road, Saturday. Many gathered from the community to watch the landing of the balloon. (Adam Capps/Sampson Independent)
Colorful landing
Adam Capps/Sampson Independent Randy Lee’s hot air balloon company donated a flight to a charitable auction for a man with a heart condition. The balloon landed in Salemburg, close to Holland’s Chapel Church on Huntley School Road, Saturday. Many gathered from the community to watch the landing of the balloon.
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Left to right: PVES principal Gaynor Hammond, Retha House, Cynthia Lee, and Beth Best stand with students John Robert McLamb, Warren Naylor, Landon Hammond, Cayla Lee, and Nicholas Lee. These students raised the most money for the school's cancer research fundraiser. (Lauren Williams/Sampson Independent)
Rallying for others
When two local teachers’ lives were recently changed forever by cancer, their school, Plain View Elementary, rallied behind them with a home-grown fundraiser and showed them that no one fights the battle alone. Retha House, the computer lab facilitator at Plain View Elementary, lost her 27-year-old daughter, Ashley House Barefoot, to neuroblastoma just this past year in October. Also, this past January, fifth grade teacher Cynthia Lee vis...
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The Congressional art winners are: first place: Chaz Dylan Whited, Eugene Ashley High School, Wilmington; second place: TyJanay Holloway, “Pinkish” – Clinton High School, Clinton; and third place: Taylor Grace Perdue, “Rabble” – Coastal Christian High School, Wilmington. (Courtesy photo)
Congressional art winners announced
Winners of the 2013 Congressional Art Competition, “32nd Annual Artistic Discovery” were recently announced. The artwork, from artists in Congressman Mike McIntyre’s 7th District, is on exhibit at the Victor R. Small House through Tuesday. The exhibit consists of 18 paintings, drawings and prints by talented high school students. Winners are: 1st Place: Chaz Dylan Whited, “Feeling Blue” – Eugene Ashley High School, Wilmington (Junior) ...
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Brandin Apperson Holleman
Woman facing drunk driving charge
A 34-year-old Dunn woman has found herself in trouble with city law enforcement after being stopped for suspicion of impaired driving and then reportedly backing into the officer’s patrol car as he was attempting to retrieve the alco-sensor from the vehicle. Brandin Apperson Holleman of 39 Oak Tree Court, Dunn, was charged with driving while impaired. She was placed under a $1,500 secured bond and is expected to make her first appearance in...
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Makin’ the grade
Restaurant Grades Week of April 22, 2013 Happy Belly Deli 98 Las Delicias 97.5 SCC Cafeteria 96 Wendy’s 97 Subway/N.E. Blvd 96 McDonald’s/ Newton Grove 97
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The amount of recycling collected from curbs citywide in Clinton has grown gradually from the 10.6 collected in the first week, doubling just two collection weeks later. (Courtesy graphic)
Recycling tonnage continues to rise
The recycling tonnage collected from Clinton curbs has increased every week since the city’s bi-weekly program began last month, a rate projected to cut into the city’s waste stream by 20 percent should it continue. City officials are optimistic it will, lauding residents for a huge participation rate and vowing continued growth to the overall collection effort. Through three weeks, Public Works director Jeff Vreugdenhil said the tonnage ha...
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Eye drops for cataracts
There are many ads on TV, radio and in magazines and newspapers touting the ability of this drop or that pill to cure you of cataracts. Unfortunately, to date there has been no documented evidence that they really work. Many so-called natural cures are on the market today claiming to be an effective treatment for various diseases. Some of these have limited use in modern medicine but most are variations of home remedies that have been handed ...
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The Clinton City Board of Education met at the central office early Friday morning to discuss three, one principal and two assistant principal, contract renewals. (Lauren Williams/Sampson Independent)
City schools extend contracts for three
The Clinton City Board of Education held a special called board meeting Friday morning to discuss personnel matters, particularly the renewal of principal and assistant principal contracts. After meeting for about an hour and a half in closed session, the board revealed its decisions, approving Linda Jan Smith, principal at L.C. Kerr Elementary School, to receive a renewed four-year, 12 month contract, effective from July 1, 2013 to June 30...
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From left, actors Clay Boney, Susan Rouse, and Natalie Pope rehearse a scene from the upcoming Old Bluff Theatre Company production of 'Doubt,' which opens May 9. (Courtesy photo)
Rehearsals under way for ‘Doubt, A Parable’
Rehearsals are in full swing as opening night fast approaches for Doubt, A Parable, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley that is produced by the Old Bluff Theatre Company and sponsored by the Happy Belly Deli. Lucy Lockamy directs this show set in 1964, which tells the story of a Roman Catholic school principal Sister Aloysius - a woman with a reputation for tenacity and flinty resolve who inhabits a world of black-and-white,...
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Marisleysi Baltazar makes her Earth Day pledge at Union Intermediate Monday. (Courtesy photo)
UMS sixth-graders celebrate Earth Day
Union Middle sixth-graders got down to earth Monday, celebrating Earth Day by studying a unit on Earth Day and making litterbugs as part of hands-on learning experiences. The unit involved nature, conservation, cleaning up and recycling. Through a rotation of all sixth-grade teachers, each student received a lesson/activity ranging from finding/creating geometrical shapes out of things found in nature to a lesson on the history of Earth D...
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Pictured are the Talent Show winners, Jana Hunter, Jonhnice Williams, and Lorin Hawks, from Roseboro-Salemburg Middle School. (Courtesy photo)
R-S hold talent show; 3 winners tapped
On April 19, Roseboro-Salemburg Middle School held its annual Talent Show. The show titled, “Shine On,” was directed by Jennifer Matthews. Randy Wood, former R-S teacher, was the Master of Ceremonies. Jana Hunter, Haley Wainright, Peyton Crumpler, Lorin Hawks, Kendallyn Faircloth, Ally Grace Royal, Caroline Robinson, Mackenzie Grady, Hailey Lewis, Johnice Williams, and Hannah Gordon did a fantastic job performing for the audience and judges...
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Following its licensing in February, the Sampson County Animal Shelter has received the drug needed to administer lethal injection as a form of euthanasia. Use of the gas chamber is expected to be discontinued next week. (File photo)
Shelter’s gas chamber nears end
With the proper drugs now received to administer to animals for humane euthanasia, the long-operated gas chamber at the Sampson County Animal Shelter is on its last legs. Following the county’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) licensing at the beginning of February to bury the gas chamber, shelter director Alan Canady said receiving the drugs was the last piece of the puzzle to dismantle the chamber. He confirmed their receipt Thursday...
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The cuteness returns
The Sampson Independent staff is on the hunt for some adorable young faces, and they’re hoping the reading public — both in print and online — will once again help them find those cuties as the paper and its contest sponsors kick off the third annual online contest designed to promote your children. “We are thrilled to be bringing this contest back again,” said Independent editor Sherry Matthews. “It is one of our most popular online co...
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Chefs Debbie Valenti, Patty Tarr, and Trey Cummings work hard and have fun while helping plate chef Joanie Babcock's main course, rosemary roasted pork loin. (Nancy Carr/United Way)
United Way’s ‘Fields’ event a ‘successful’ fundraising
The Sampson County United Way “Outstanding in Our Fields” dinner event, held last Saturday, April 20 at the Prestage Hunting Lodge, produced a bountiful harvest, raising over $10,000 for United Way as organizers work to better the lives of local citizens in the areas of education, income, and health. All involved in the unique fundraiser — everyone from United Way’s Board of Directors to the local chefs who prepared the meal — are still ree...
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