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Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin arrived at Logan International Airport on Monday and stepped off the aircraft with an extra sense of urgency. His flight wasn’t late, nor was he running behind schedule for his meeting in downtown Boston.,
PENDER COUNTY — Pender County Emergency Management has been monitoring the roadways after a week of heavy rains. “We urge motorists if they see swift-moving water on the roadways to turn around, don’t drown,” Carson Smith, interim emergency manager, said. The department asks motorists to be aware of these flooded roadways as of Feb. 21: • Willard Railroad Street at the Bridge of the Pender/Duplin County line • 2356-3276 block of the Old Maple Hill Road • 1600-3700 block Croomsbridge Road • All of River Bend Drive • All of River Birch Road • All of Bear Run ...
New bill aims to support construction of new Wilmington food bank with state funds A new proposed bill could help fund new centralized food bank By Kendall McGee | February 5, 2021 at 6:54 PM EST - Updated February 5 at 7:27 PM WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - One of the first bills filed this legislative session aims to use $750,000 in state funds to build a new food bank in Wilmington. House bill 14 was filed on January 28 by representatives Ted Davis, Charles Miller, Carson Smith and Brenden Jones. According to the bill, more than 107,200 people in the Cape Fear region are facing food insecu...
Rocky Point neighborhood desperate for state help with roads Community pushes to have state maintain access road By Anna Phillips | January 15, 2021 at 10:42 PM EST - Updated January 15 at 11:49 PM PENDER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - A group of neighbors in the Arvida neighborhood of Rocky Point is desperate to get the attention of the North Carolina Department of Transportation. They’re trying to get the state to step in and do something about their roads, which they believe are in such bad shape that it would impede the response of EMS, firefighters, police and anyone else who may need to g...
Martha Julia Palczewski Martin Stuber was born on Jan. 8, 1929 on the homestead farm of Joseph and Elizabeth Palczewski 13 miles south of Scranton, ND. She was the youngest of nine children. Their home had three rooms and an attic. Martha attended Hammond Grade School and was the only child in her grade. She and her brother, Stanley Palczewski walked four miles each way or rode double on horseback. Martha helped her mother with cleaning, washing, ironing, baking, cooking, garden weeding and milking cows. Life was a struggle on the farm growing up in the 1930s dust bowl era. Martha graduated f...