Kids got a chance to ride a barrel train at the Easter in the Park event on Saturday, March 16, in Wallace’s Clement Park. There were also plenty of vendors, a bouncy house, the Easter bunny and of course an Easter egg hunt. Two-year-old cousins Myles Chasten and Kavonna Jones had a fun time at […]
Hundreds of kids excitedly filled their buckets with colorful Easter eggs at the Hop Hop Hooray Spring Fling held at the Warsaw Parks and Rec on March 16. The event sponsored by the Duplin County Partnership for Children featured bouncy houses, balloon art, games, food, a magic show and concluded with an epic Easter egg […]
By Abby Cavenaugh Duplin Journal You may not know the name Christina Phillips, Ph.D., but the Wallace native is one of the driving forces behind Smithfield, the powerhouse corporation that helped put Duplin County on the pork industry map. She also spent the past year as president of the North Carolina Pork Council, a statewide […]
Special celebration seeks to honor Faison’s farmers By Ena Sellers Duplin Journal FAISON — As we kick off National Agriculture Month this March, members of the Faison Improvement Group are gearing up for the Farmers Day Parade set for March 23. The yearly celebration will kick off at 11 a.m., with the line up […]
The Duplin Journal strives to elevate the conversation within the community, and what better way to do that than to get to know our county’s leaders? In our first Q&A, we sat down with Duplin County Schools (DCS) Superintendent Dr. Austin Obasohan, and asked him not only about challenges facing our public schools, but more […]
It’s likely no surprise that the leading cause of death in Duplin County is heart disease, according to the 2021-22 Community Health Needs Assessment. What might be more surprising is that Duplin has all the tools and resources necessary to help detect, treat and prevent a variety of heart ailments. ECU Health Heart & Vascular […]
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