“Our position tonight is not a reflection on their character or their incredible legacy. But a public building belongs to the entirety of the public. We believe moving forward with a permanent personal renaming at this stage is premature. … A rushed decision has created unnecessary division around a building that should be a symbol of unity.”
— John Campbell, chairman of Concerned Citizens for Better Government, at last week’s public hearing on the potential naming of the Robeson Career & Technical Education Center (CTEC) for former superintendents Johnny Hunt and Barry Harding; the Robeson County Board of Education ultimately voted Tuesday not to remane the building, but instead to place plaques honoring the individuals.
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“This (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), which has already weakened protections against chemicals like GenX, is now allowing polluters to pick and choose how and where they’ll fix their contamination — leaving North Carolina with no guarantees.”
— Gov. Josh Stein, after the U.S. Department of Justice reached a proposed settlement agreement with Chemours over the company’s contamination of water in the Cape Fear region
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“During that heat wave, when those thunderstorms have so much fuel to work with — because thunderstorms need three main ingredients: moisture, instability and lift. When it’s that hot and humid like it was last week, we were still carrying a heat advisory, the moisture and the instability are just locked in. You just lift those with things like small upperlevel disturbances or very weak surface boundaries, and the storms grow pretty intense pretty quickly.”
— Mark Bacon, meteorologist from the National Weather Service, on summer thunderstorms
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“For many families, serious illness extends beyond medical treatments,” said UNC Health Southeastern President and CEO Chris Ellington. “It often brings emotional stress, uncertainty, and the challenge of coordinating care across multiple providers. This program is designed to ease that burden by providing a dedicated team that helps patients and caregivers navigate complex healthcare decisions while ensuring their goals, values, and preferences remain at the center of care.”
— UNC Health Southeastern President and CEO Chris Ellington after a $575,000 grant from The Duke Endowment will allow the organization to establish Robeson County’s first hospital-to-community palliative care program