KENANSVILLE — Last week, Tracey Simmons-Kornegay, Duplin County Health director, presented the Duplin County Community Health Needs Assessment data findings to the Board of County Commissioners. According to Kornegay, the population has decreased by about 10% compared to the last census. Currently, 46,923 people live in Duplin County. “The Hispanic Latino [community] is about twice […]
On Nov. 7, Dylan Alexander Jones was sentenced to 12 years, nine months in prison for trafficking counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl following a fatal overdose in Teachey. After his prison time, Jones will be on supervised release for five years. He must complete 50 hours of community service teaching youth about the dangers of […]
KENANSVILLE — The Duplin County Board of Education got good news about the 2023-24 audit at the board’s regular monthly meeting Thursday night, Nov. 7. “The audit went as planned,” said Adam Shapiro with Anderson, Smith and White, who performed the audit. “We didn’t have any differences of opinion as to any of the financial […]
On Nov. 7, Dylan Alexander Jones was sentenced to 12 years, nine months in prison for trafficking counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl following a fatal overdose in Teachey. After his prison time, Jones will be on supervised release for five years. He must complete 50 hours of community service teaching youth about the dangers of […]
CHINQUAPIN — Duplin County Sheriff Stratton Stokes confirmed that a 15-year-old was charged with felony and misdemeanor animal cruelty on Tuesday, Nov. 5, for beating a cat to death with a baseball bat near Chinquapin. Sheriff Stokes told Duplin Journal that a video recorded off of a Snapchat was sent to the Duplin County Sheriff’s […]
WARSAW — Thousands of people lined the streets of Warsaw last Saturday, joining the country’s longest-running consecutive Veterans Day observance and the state’s official Veterans Day parade. The parade kicked off with the North Carolina Forest Service flyover as excited crowds cheered on and watched in awe as members of the 82nd Airborne Division parachute […]
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