September 20, 2009
John Hinton, Chowan University vice president for human resources and the driving force behind the birth of the university’s new fight song, leads in the singing of that song at a pep rally Thursday at the Murfreesboro school.

September 15, 2009
Woodmen of the World Lodge 862 in Murfreesboro honored the heroes and victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attach on the World Trade Center on Sunday with a ceremony on the lawn of the Jefcoat Museum. As a part of that ceremony, a flag presented to the museum was raised and then lowered to half staff.

July 9, 2009
The leadership of the North Carolina Watermelon Festival, meeting to review progress by the festival’s several committees, celebrated that progress with a cake baked and decorated by Lorrie Barnes (center, holding cake). From left to right, pictured are: front row, Charles Freeman, Debbie Edwards, Barnes, Kay Mitchell Thomas, Sandra Woodard and Lynette Bunch; second row, Bonnie Hunsicker, Brenda Watson, Molly Eubank, Debby Cobb, and Cheneta Herbert; back row, Darrell Rowe, Suzi Brown, Percy Bunch, Alan Harris, Tim Barnes and Del Aycock.

June 27, 2009
Honored at the annual banquet of the Northampton Chamber of Commerce Thursday night in Jackson were, from left, the Town of Conway as Municipality of the Year, accepted by Mayor Brian Bolton; Watson Builders as Business of the Year, accepted by Art and Cindy Watson; and outgoing chamber board member Bill Little.

June 25, 2009
Honored at the Tuesday meeting of the Murfreesboro Town Council was Tyniquea Chantell Joyner, who, based on her academic record and school activities, “represented Murfreesboro in an exceptional manner while serving in the capacity of a page in the North Carolina General Assembly House of Representatives,” according to a proclamation presented Joyner by Murfreesboro Mayor Lynn Johnson. Tyniquea (at the right) is the daughter of Donna Regina Lewis of Murfreesboro.