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Weldon town commissioners today began working on the upcoming fiscal year budget with a directive from Mayor Julia Meacham for each department to cut its budget 3 percent.
Weldon town commissioners today began working on the upcoming fiscal year budget with a directive from Mayor Julia Meacham for each department to cut its budget 3 percent.
Pete Luter’s life was about jumping, friends recalled today.
“He left this world doing what he loved and cherished,” said longtime friend J.B. Smith, who was with Luter when he formed a skydiving club in Roanoke Rapids around 1965.
This week Weldon got rid of two buildings the town considers eyesores — the Dickens Hux building by heavy machinery and today the old funeral home by fire.
They call them Skittle parties, multicolored pills strewn on a table and you choose your favorite color and take them to see what happens.
A North Carolina man was sentenced today to 27 years to life in state prison for murdering an Orange County fortune teller and her daughter. Phillipe Zamora, 55, Roanoke Rapids, NC, pleaded guilty April 14, 2009, to two felony counts of first degree murder.
