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ELIZABETHTOWN With a week to go, municipal election filing in Bladen County is very weak. The county has 21 spots to fill among the seven municipalities. Through Friday, only seven of those 21 seats had attracted a total of eight candidates. Newly filed between Tuesday and Friday of last week were two Bladenboro commissioner candidates: Gregory Sykes and Blake Proctor. Sykes is an incumbent, and Proctor a former administrative employee. The filing period remains open through noon on Friday. Election Day is Nov. 2. Absentee voting, which is inclusive of the method known as one-stop voting, commences before that. According to an election roster provided by the county board, the following are occupants of the seats up for election this fall: ....
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ELIZABETHTOWN Eddie Madden’s route to town manager was not the usual script. He’d worked as a planner in Highlands, a small community near the Georgia and South Carolina border in the southern Appalachian mountains. Then a 10-year stint with his father in real estate. It was early 2008, about the time America was entering a financial crisis. Sylvia Campbell had just won her first term as mayor and the town’s clerk, Juanita Hester, said among the applications was one she thought worthy of giving a good look. “He was flying, flew into the airport, we began to talk, and I knew immediately he was the man for us,” Campbell said. “We thought so much alike. I had some high expectations. I don’t think I ever took an idea to Eddie that he didn’t pick it up and run with it. He thinks outside of the box. That’s an attribute.” ....