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Private Party
Gov. Bev Perdue appears to be leaning toward taking the state out of the alcohol sales business and putting it in the hands of private owners.
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D. G. Martin ISLAND LIVING ON OCRACOKE AND THE HYDE COUNTY MAINLAND 
“She lived on this island for 77 years and never left, not even for a day,” Alton Ballance told us about a woman who spent her entire life on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina.
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Bladen Journal Time Capsule
— March 6, 1952: Eloise Campbell of Elizabethtown High School is named “Miss Basketball.” In her three years of varsity play, she has scored 2,363 points and averaged 32.3 points a game. — March 6...
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Unanswered prayers
How many good ideas have been shot down by politicians? There’s no way to answer that, of course, but you can certainly add one more today.
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W. Curt Vincent My reward was a tiny smile
For five weeks I’d been itching to go to Tennessee. Not for college basketball, not for country music and not for more winter weather.
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Still waiting
Time marches on — while two families and a community continue to wait. But it’s the families that are suffering. It’s in their eyes. It’s in the back of their minds. It’s on the tip of their tongu...
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EDITORIALS
LETTERS
New ministry beginning
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To the editor: I’m so excited about serving the Lord, and even more so to serve in Bladen County. I wondered what could God want me to do in Bladen County after being away from North Carolina for...
On press, heavy metal and the Olympic champion
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To the editor: Lately, the world press has noted some stories about famous people converting into Catholicism or entering into a religious order. For example, the italian magistrate Serena Riguzzi...
Writer says she had a good stay at BCH
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To the editor: I want to shout it from the rooftop what a wonderful place the people of Bladen County take for granted — Cape Fear Valley/Bladen County Hospital. I just completed a stay there and...
NAACP responds to Wake County Board of Education
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An open letter to Ron Margiotta, chairperson of the Wake County Board of Education: We received your letter that said the Board delegated to you and Ms. Goldman the power to respond to the NAACP's...
VFW Post says thanks
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To the editor: The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8062 wishes to extend our thanks to Council Member Charles DeVane for being instrumental in getting a patriotic banner placed at several locations ...
Obama will not save us
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To the editor: In a question and answer session, Sarah Palin said, “It would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and pr...
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WHO WILL TAKE ERSKINE’S PLACE?
by D. G Martin, special to the Journal
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Who is going to take Erskine Bowles’s place as President of the multi-campus University of North Carolina (UNC)? The easy answer is “whomever the 32-person Board of Governors of the university sel...
Six Simple Ways that You Can Change the World
by Angela Perkey, Guest Columnist
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Every time you turn on the TV, read the newspaper, or go online, you’re confronted with all of the problems that exist in our neighborhoods, nation, and world. From unemployment to natural disaster...
February follies precede March Madness
by W. Curt Vincent, editor@bladenjournal.com
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The North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s version of March Madness actually begins with February Follies as the powers that be attempt to fill slots with any basketball team that still ...
Going to market
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If there is any doubt, let us clear it up now: We are firm in our support of Town Manager Eddie Madden and the rest of the Elizabethtown’s officials in their quest to establish a farmers market on ...
Bladen Journal Time Capsule
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— Feb. 22, 1952: An organizational meeting is held in Bladenboro at the Women’s Club building to discuss the start of a Junior Chamber of Commerce. — Feb. 27, 1975: The Clarkton Farmer’s Exchange ...
Snow and its silent beauty
by Erin Smith, esmith@bladenjournal.com
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I love snow. I really do. Unless, of course, if I have to try to drive to work or run errands, or be someplace at a specific time. In other words, I only like snow when its convenient for me to be ...
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