A request to change the name of the Sampson Recreation Center to honor a member of the community was met with slight controversy earlier this week during the Clinton City Council meeting. No decision was reached, and the matter was turned over to the city’s Naming Committee for further review.

Delivering mail is the career McKinley Carroll, affectionately known as “Mac,” had always dreamed of doing, even during the farming days of his youth in Sampson County. Over 40 years later, he’s hanging up his mail back, thankful for decades of doing a job he has always loved.

Less than 24 hours after threats at two Sampson County schools were discovered, sheriff’s investigators are saying no perceived threats currently exist and two middle-schoolers are being detained as juvenile petitions are being filed against them in one of the two situations.

The pattern for this year’s maze for the Hubb’s Farm Fall Festival is giving tribute to the late country music star Toby Keith.

A request to change the name of the Sampson Recreation Center to honor a member of the community was met with slight controversy earlier this week during the Clinton City Council meeting. No decision was reached, and the matter was turned over to the city’s Naming Committee for further review.

Delivering mail is the career McKinley Carroll, affectionately known as “Mac,” had always dreamed of doing, even during the farming days of his youth in Sampson County. Over 40 years later, he’s hanging up his mail back, thankful for decades of doing a job he has always loved.

PLAIN VIEW — A section of Green Path Road in Sampson County is expected to be closed through next week for repairs.

Less than 24 hours after threats at two Sampson County schools were discovered, sheriff’s investigators are saying no perceived threats currently exist and two middle-schoolers are being detained as juvenile petitions are being filed against them in one of the two situations.

The pattern for this year’s maze for the Hubb’s Farm Fall Festival is giving tribute to the late country music star Toby Keith.

Three men, one from Sampson County, were jailed over the last few days on a series of unrelated charges ranging from identity theft and breaking and entering to drug possession. Each of the suspects was taken into custody by sheriff’s deputies and at least two of them were discovered to be wanted in other counties on additional charges.

Although groups of families had flocked to Kitty Fork Outdoors for the annual dove hunt put on by Jeff and Dana Jones Saturday, the guest of honor was there for a different reason.

Seating was all but full for Monday’s Sampson County Board of Commissioner meeting, largely due to a walk-on item added to the agenda — a presentation by Rick Sauer, director of emergency services, on the troubling issues that have surfaced at the local 911 center, sending emergency services to the wrong address, slowing down response times.