14 inmates get

their GED

LUMBERTON — A total of 14 men graduated with a high school equivalency certificate on June 13 at Lumberton Correctional Institute.

The graduates include: Patrick Car, Timothy Hayes, Cecilio Hernandez, Jorge Juarez-Lopez, Joshua Queen, Crescenico Santos, Javon Taylor, Salvador Vidal, Maverick Blakeney, C-Allah Coombs, Jason Farmer, Antonio Gwynn, Adrian Johnson and Daniel Wiltshire.

Eight of the graduates were in attendance for the ceremony, and for the first time in the program’s history, family members were allowed to attend.

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LREMC dedicates

new headquarters

PEMBROKE — Lumbee River Electric Membership Corporation members, employees, Board of Directors and local dignitaries recently gathered to dedicate the corporation’s new office located on N.C. 711 in the COMtech Business Park.

The corporation had been in its old location in Red Springs since 1945.

The new state-of-the-art facility provides members with a full service lobby and includes a garage and warehouse facility for housing materials to support services provided to the cooperatives membership.

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Man arrested in

robbery attempt

LUMBERTON — A 20-year-old Lumberton man was arrested Saturday morning and charged with an attempted armed robbery, and his father was charged with a related crime.

Abdul Malik Walters was arrested about 1:40 a.m. and charged with attempted armed robbery with a dangerous weapon. He was jailed under a $25,000 bond.

Corey Nathaniel Walters, 43, is charged with accessory after the fact of a felony. He was jailed under a $10,000 secured bond.

The younger Walters is accused of trying to rob the One Stop Gas Station located at 4410 Alamac Road outside of Lumberton on Thursday.

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Place of Grace to

‘ambush’ residents

ROCKINGHAM — The Place of Grace Campus this week started a new ministry designed to spread their message outside of the church, popping up in unexpected places, fittingly titled the Ambush Ministry.

There are four ministries within Ambush: street, yard, sign and fishing. The Street Ministry is an outdoor church service currently held monthly behind the Discount Grocery in East Rockingham.

Ambush Ministry’s motto, according to Pastor Gary Richardson and as included on the ministry’s new Facebook page, “Let’s change Richmond County one ambush at a time!”

From staff and wire reports.

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