Belk is inviting local charities, schools and other nonprofit organizations to participate in its Spring Charity Sale on May 1. The event will once again benefit communities throughout the compan...
Liberty Tax Service to hold roadside party to help Haiti Liberty Tax Service is hosting a fundraiser event from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 13, to help Stop Hunger Now, immediate relief efforts for the crises in Haiti. Stop Hunger Now, an interna...
Unemployed veterans have somewhere to turn in county Sampson County Employment Security Commission has added a veteran employment consultant after an extended period without someone to directly meet the needs of both active and inactive veterans. Th...
Clinton
Burkes opening March 19 Burkes Outlet is growing in Clinton with the opening of a new store in Sampson Crossing on Friday, March 19. The new 22,560-square-foot store site is located at 1329 Sunset Ave., Clinton. The new ...
South River EMC members will notice a change in their March electric bills. The bills will represent a discontinuation of the use of the wholesale power cost adjustment, or WPCA, and a new base r...
Forty-two Hobbton High School Future Business Leaders of America students toured three businesses in Mount Olive recently to learn more about job opportunities, entrepreneurship and hiring practice...
Clinton native Greg Thornton was honored as a 2009 Main Street Champion at the North Carolina Main Street Annual Awards Dinner on Jan. 28 in New Bern. Thornton was selected for this special recogni...
South River EMC is offering cooperative members new ways to save in 2010, with two new rebate programs. The first is a high efficiency heat pump rebate. Energy Star qualified heat pumps have a hig...
On a cold Wednesday afternoon, Garland town leaders and some Southern Bank executives and customers came out to the center of downtown to break ground on the bank’s new building, which should be co...
Heartland Publications, LLC, which operates 50 paid-circulation newspapers in nine states including The Sampson Independent, today announced it will complete its financial restructuring under prote...