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Photo by Billy Todd New Sampson County Employment Security Commission Veterans Employment representative, Renee Deramus, stands beside many of her mementos from her Army days. Deramus encourages all veterans in the county to contact her to receive assistance she has available. 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...
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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 ...
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Courtesy photo The Clinton-Sampson Chamber of Commerce selected the N.C. Justice Academy, located in Salemburg, as its Member of the Week. The N.C. Justice Academy’s mission is to train criminal justice professionals throughout the state. They do this by offering courses, developing training materials and providing technical assistance. Visit the N.C. Justice Academy’s web site at www.jus.state.nc.us/NCJA/. For more information about the Clinton-Sampson Chamber of Commerce, call 910-592-6177. Chamber honors Justice Academy

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South River EMC customers will see drop in utility bills
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 ba...
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Hobbton high schoolers take business tour of Mount Olive
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 practic...
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Clinton’s Thornton among N.C. Main Street Champions
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 recogn...
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SREMC also offers rebates
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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...
Bank breaks ground — again
by Katie Holland
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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 to complete financial restructuring under Chapter 11 • All 50 Newspapers to Continue as Usual
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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...
Retirees ‘tickled pink’ to see their dream come true
by Billy Todd
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Staff Writer It had always been a dream for two retired educators to operate a little shop and the two spent many hours while on their morning walks discussing the idea. On April 22, 2009, Lesa ...
Making the grade
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Sampson County Restaurant Grades
Howard-Bradshaw open house
by Amy Kelly
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Attorneys Alison Bradshaw and Tim Howard held an open house Aug. 11 at their new location at 115 E. Elizabeth St. in Clinton. Local business owners, government officials, fellow attorneys and frien...
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