Raymond Turner Jr. and Johnny Powell shake hands after Powell was recognized for 70 years as a Mason. WARSAW — A Warsaw man ...

The Mount Olive Exchange Club and Rotary Club are partnering this year to co-host the town’s annual old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration from 5 to 7 p.m. this Friday in Westbrook Park. The Mt.

When 18-year-old Kate Ward won the title of Miss North Carolina’s Teen 2025 on June 28 in High Point, it was the culmination ...

The Mount Olive Exchange Club installed new officers Tuesday night, July 15, also using the occasion to continue its support ...

The Pender County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) and North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) have identified a large-scale Moldovan and Russian money laundering scheme.

Peggy Ann Waters Hester, 88, of Mount Olive, passed away Monday July 8, 2025 at Kitty Askins Hospice Center.

Thanks to a recent remodel, the Bobby Denning Furniture and Properties business has a fresh, modern storefront, with two-tone stucco, complementary stonework, metal slat awnings, and bold, red ...

Shelves at the Mount Olive Area Chamber of Commerce are filled with Pickle Festival merchandise that is now for sale. As usual, t-shirts are available, but the wording on them differs from that on the ...

MOUNT OLIVE — Students in Professor David Shields’ Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience class at the University of Mount Olive are delving into the biological foundations of behavior and cognition.

Simon Thornton (left) and Faison Mayor Billy Ward unveil a monument that pays tribute to Thornton’s father, William E. Thornton, a Faison native who became a physician, inventor, author, and astronaut ...

Following Monday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Box to Bowl Hydroponics Smart Farm on JSCC’s WestPark campus, agriculture instructor Katlyn Foy leads a tour inside the farming container. (Kathy ...

Beverly Weeks, left, founder and CEO of the anti-human-trafficking organization Cry Freedom Missions, shows off merchandise in the Cry Freedom Missions Shoppe that raises funds to help sustain the ...