Tonight Is The Night

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The regularly called meeting for the Lumberton Board of Aldermen will be tonight at 6:00 p.m. at City Hall board room. Several special called meetings were posted throughout last week, but the never achieved a quorum. Tonight, we get the opportunity to question our elected officials about our water bills, the constant influx of billing erros, the urgency to have a special called meeting about personel issues within the police department, and the recent announcement of the pending closing of Cooper Industries. Monday's meeting is the only meeting that citizens comments are allowed. Naturally, citizens make comments throughout the Tueday meeting, but they are officially given the opportunity to address the Board of Aldermen on Monday night. Ideally, this meeting should be SRO (standing room only) but hopefully, enough concerned citizens will come out and confront their elected officials. For those of you that seem to think that my blog is based soley on opinions and innuendo, this is your opportunity to come and see for yourself if the information I put on the blog is based on fact or fiction.

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  1. AnonymousOctober 4, 2010 at 11:56 PM

    WELL HOPEFULLY WE WILL GET TO BRING UP WHAT HAS HAPPENED OVER THE WEEKEND !!! THE WAY GROWN FOLKS AROUND HERE WATCH CHILDREN FIGHT LIKE IT WAS PPV TV !! IT IS SAD , WERE IS THERE COMMON SENSE TO STOP THIS SENSELESS VIOLENCE IN OUR TOWN . ? INSTEAD THEY WATCH AND CHEER FOR IT IT IS JUST A SHAME .I FEEL WE NEED TO RENAME THE POLICE DEPT !! JUST CALL THEM ZOO KEEPERS CAUSE THAT IS ALL THEY ARE , LEFT TO DEAL WITH THE ANIMALS THAT HAVE BEEN BORN AND RAISED IN THE STREETS . I FEEL WE NEED THESE ANIMALS PUT BACK IN THEIR CAGES !!! IE JAIL OR THE LAMAR HILTON !!! HOW CAN ADULTS CALL THE POLICE THEN TRY TO ASSAULT POLICE WHEN THEY SHOW UP ? I DON'T KNMOW ONLY IN LUMBERTON , ANY WERE ELSE SHE WOULD BE IN JAIL ON ASSAULT CHARGES AND AS FAR AS JOJO HE NEEDS TO SIT HIS FAT ASS DOWN BESIDES RUNNIN AROUND WITH A GUN LIKE HE IS GANSTA , BETTER YET TAKE HIS ASS TO OAK GROVE WITH HIS MOMMA !!! IT IS THINGS LIKE THIS THAT MAKE PPL NOT WANT TO INVEST IN OUR DYING CITY . SO WHEN YOU WONDER WHY WE DON'T HAVE STORES , PLACES TO EAT OR THINGS TO DO JUST THANK THE YOUTH OF OUR CITY AND THE LACK OF RESPECT THAT THEY HAVE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT . IF THE ADULTS WOULD SET A BETTER EXAMPLE MAYBE THAN THE CHILDREN COULD LEARN WE ALL NEED TO GROW UP AND STOP BEING CHILDISH . LETS GET BACK TO THE GOOOD OLD DAYS WHEN A DRUG DEALERS WAS AFRAID TO WALK THE STREETS NOW IT SEEMS LIKE IT IS AN OPEN AIR DRUG MARKET ???THE ALDERMAN NEED TO SUPPORT OUR POLICE AND STEP UP ENFORCEMENT OF DRUG CRIMES AND MAKE IT A TOP PRIORITY FOR THIS TERM , STAND BEHIND THE BADGE NO MATTER WHAT !!! SEND DRUG DEALERS TO JAIL AND USERS TO REHAB AND WE MIGHT HAVE MORE TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN THE FUTURE BESIDES STORES CLOSING ?

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  2. AnonymousOctober 5, 2010 at 9:28 AM

    The police and aldermen are working with the drug dealers. They know who selling and do nothing about it. Some of us are working people trying to make it and the drug dealers are riding around with no worries. I just read in the paper where an 18 got arrested for selling. What about the old, middle age men that won't work at a pie shop? They ride all day. Dang I can't even put gas in my car to go to work and I have to pay taxes for them to pack pavement(ride all day packing the pavement on the streets.) Only in L'ton.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 6, 2010 at 3:05 AM

    TO THE ABOVE ANONYMOS PERSON , YOU HAVE THE WRONG POLICE CHIEF, WHAT YOU ARE TALKING WAS TRUE 1 TIME IN LUMBERTON BUT CAN YOU SAY SMOKEY ????

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  4. AnonymousOctober 6, 2010 at 8:19 PM

    To the above anonymous person. I was not just talking about the chief. I'm talking about all of them. Why haven't there been any drug bust lately. Tell me that. It's drugs being sold on every corner. Don't look to good to me. It seems to me I got the right Police Chief.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 7, 2010 at 11:58 PM

    Drugs are not only being sold on the corner..but also at the school...this is a sad sad place to live in...can't wait to leave!!!

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