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Mobile Vet Clinic comes to Bertie County recently
The Greenville Vet Center Mobile Unit visited Bertie County recently. They came as an outreach effort to provide to communities of veterans, professional confidential counseling and referral support to eligible Veterans and service members. These included National Guard and Reserve components and their families in a non-medical setting. The Veterans Outreach Program Specialist, Gary Brown, said, “I am glad to come back to the Bertie area.” ...
The dog days of August, year round
There are some citizens in Bertie County having the personal feelings of a rock. That would be the only explanation to allow for a dog’s collar to cut into its heavily fur covered neck so deep that the skin was slowly broken allowing raw flesh to protrude from the leather collar’s tightening due to the puppy’s growth. The pictures were not pretty. Nor were the other series of pictures of...
McCall proclaims Minnie Arbell Smithwick Day
Williamston Mayor Dean McCall declared July 10 Minnie Arbell Smithwick Day, honoring 100-year-old lifetime resident with the declaration and a proclamation outlining Smithwick’s life and accomplishments. Smithwick was born in 1924 to King David Smithwick and Gracie Powell Smithwick. The family lived between Williamston and Jamesville in a community called the Island. In 1946, Smithwick married her classmate Johnnie Edward Bell, who had served in Pearl Harbor and became a...
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