Lumberton Informer

Here we go again. How many times are we going to travel around this mountain? The events I am talking about happened approximately one week ago today. There are those that say why you wait to speak about these things? Well, contrary to popular belief, if I don't have the information, I don't blog about it. Thankfully, I stumbled across the information when I overheard some individuals talking. I still was not convinced that what I had heard was true, so I started asking around and low and behold, I was able to gather enough details to compose this blog post. So, I will let you decide if you believe it or not. For the record, no one I spoke to said anything about Stephanie C. Mullings doing anything to any of the clerks; her mother, former deputy clerk, Faye Engles, did all the dirty work for her. Including but not limited to cussing out all the clerks in the office and calling Ben Winston to force him to have the unpaid water services restored at the address that at Stephan...

This post is in response to a comment (Say What post) made by a reader on July 4, 2010 @ 10:46 p.m. The reader stated that "If we going to be real about the situation Apartments bring all the house sell down especially people that live by them. You need to read up on your information before you put it on." Well, I did a little research on the apartments here in Lumberton. Frank Lee Homes (aka Turnkey) was built in 1969-1970. But the last apartments built in a residential area are Country Village, GreenTree, and Woodchase Apartments. I looked through the records at City Hall and I found that when GreenTree and Woodchase Apartment were built, there was no protest from the residents of Ward 3 (a ward comprised of mostly African-American households) and the company was able to obtain the LIHTC (Low Income Housing Tax Credit) it needed to build the apartment units. However, when Country Village was scheduled to be built in Ward 2 ( a ward comprised of mostly Caucasian households...