LUMBERTON – Three city councils are scheduled to meet on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Fairmont Board of Commissioners will meet at 6 p. m. Tuesday at the Fairmont-South Robeson Heritage Center on Main Street. The assembly is open to the public and can be viewed on the city’s Facebook page, which can be accessed by clicking https://www. facebook. com/fairmontnorthcarolina/.
Items on the schedule come with a public hearing on a conditional use permit application for a cell home at Pine and Jackson streets, drainage disorders at Fairmont Golf Course, a crisis assistance agreement for COVID- 19 and the appointment of an agent for the applicant and the appointment of a member of the ABC board.
Public comments can be made to the user or emailed to [email protected] before five o’clock on Tuesday afternoon. Viewers can also submit questions online through Facebook comments, the public comment segment of the online broadcast assembly.
People who want to speak to the user wear a mask. For more information, call City Hall at 910-628-9766.
The Maxton Board of Commissioners will also meet on Tuesday and the assembly will take place at 7 p. m. at City Hall in 201 McCaskill Ave.
There’s nothing new or old on the agenda. But commissioners are expected to approve a consent agenda.
It can be made public in person. For more information, call City Hall at 910-844-5231.
A special assembly of Lumberton City Hall is scheduled for Wednesday morning.
Council members are expected to vote on a rezoning request from the Moss Neck Trust for an asset on Hornets Road in northeast Lumberton. Concerns about drainage disorders in the domain prompted members to present the resolution at the September 9 meeting.
The assembly can be viewed on the 911 City of Lumberton Emergency Services Facebook page or by clicking on the following link: https://www. facebook. com/City-of-Lumberton-911-Emergency-Services-119187012036507.
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LUMBERTON – Two members of lumberton City Council left Wednesday’s special assembly after one of them said racism was an explanation of why the guidance committee voted to reject a rezoning request.
After the Commission voted 4-3 against approving Moss Neck Trust’s application for an asset on Hornets Road, a move so far submitted to officially dismiss the application, John Cantey stated that he believed racism was an explanation for the council’s action.
“Over the next year, in 2020, this council has systematically sent others back here in the city of Lumberton,” Cantey said. “This council has consistently voted ‘no’, 4-4, damaged ties through the mayor, who is almost on the verge of racism. “
Cantey, one of three members of the African-American council, cited an earlier vote to deny housing to East Lumberton, a vote “against the will of the people” related to a mobile phone tower in South Lumberton, and a vote against allowing an African-American individual to remain on the Airports Commission.
“As long as this council is divided, it will only harm the citizens of this city,” Cantey said. “Until this recommendation is made about this, it will never stop. “
Following Cantey’s comments, Councilman Leroy Rising stated that his vote had nothing to do with the problems raised through Cantey.
“I need to transmit the record and say it has nothing to do with racism,” Rising said. “This has to do with drainage, which is vital in Lumberton, and the extent of the land. And I would inspire” to bring a progression with R11 (zoning) or more, which would create a much larger scenario for Lumberton and the long-term Lumberton.
After Cantey and Councilman Chris Howard left the assembly, the vote to reject the application went 6-1. The city’s secretary, Laney Mitchell-McIntosh, in introducing the procedural regulations, said Cantey and Howard would be registered to have voted in favor of rejecting the Rezoning Request because they left the assembly unre excused.
In the first motion, Cantey, Howard and Melissa Robinson voted to approve the application. Rising, John Carroll, Karen Higley and Owen Thomas did not vote. Robinson was the only one who voted against the motion of the moment. Councilman Eric Chavis, whose absence was apologised, not at the meeting.
Moss Neck Trust requested that assets be rezoned as R6-residential so that a subdivision of Class A prefabricated houses could be developed.
Carroll stated in the move to dismiss the city planning council’s unanimous request to the Council not to approve the application due to drainage disorders on the property.
“Not that I oppose development,” Carroll said. ” I just think we want more time, and if they want to bring it back, they can solve some of the disorders we have, and maybe we’ll be in a position to take a look at it. “
Drainage disorders were raised through Rising at the normal assembly on 9 September when the request for rezoning was first submitted to the Commission. The matter was postponed until Wednesday’s special assembly.
Earlier in Wednesday’s meeting, Cantey said he believed that an accurate assessment of drainage might not make a decision without a hydraulic study.
This is usually anything that happens later in the process, the plan-making phase of the subdivision, municipal attorney Holt Moore said.
Rising also raised considerations about the lack of conditional use consistent with a permit containing situations established through the Moss Neck Trust in its application. The rezoning application included situations in which all sets would be new Class A prefabricated houses, all of which would have concrete and brick soles. foundations, all would have a minimum domain of 8,000 square feet and there would be no more than 4 consistent per acre.
The general needs for R6 zoning, which is designed to be compatible with cell homes, come with fewer square feet matching the lot, more in line with the legal acre and houses built since 1976.
Rising and Carroll wondered what would happen to zoning if, for some reason, Moss Neck Trust did not continue with the project. They asked if the assets would be obtained for any potential legal use in an R6 zoning district.
Moore stated that other prospective uses of the R6 would be allowed, but that situations related to lot size, base and lot density would pass to long-term property owners.
At the time, Cantey declared the drainage problems, he and Robinson said the citizens of Lumberton were still displaced after Hurricanes Matthew and Florence.
“I don’t want to see ourselves in the paper deny the other lumberton a place to live again,” Cantey said. “If we have to pass out here and get subsidies to fix the drain or borrow money, that’s what we have. “to do, however, it’s been 4 years (since Hurricane Matthew) and we still don’t have other people in their homes. Right now, our citizens want a position to live and a position to start rebuilding with their families.
“I’ve spoken to citizens who are still displaced,” Robinson said just before moving the movement to approve the application. “I believe this will address the scarcity of affordable housing for the displaced. I sense the drainage and appreciate the data we have. ” he won from the Department of Public Works. But I think this adaptation is what we want now.
City manager Wayne Horne said there were more than two hundred homes under structure in Lumberton in locations, adding a couple of subdivisions of 72 units.
Moore said after the assembly that there were no formal penalties or repercussions that could be imposed on Cantey or Howard for leaving the assembly without excuse, other than that their votes were counted as positive by default.
Rezoning requests the only item on Wednesday’s agenda.
St. PAULS – The explanation for why the resignation of the former city administrator in August remains a mystery.
A member of the city government, which The Robesonian chose to name, said Rodney Johnson “had a chance” to resign or be fired.
After taking office in May 2019, Johnson filed a resignation letter in August. His last day of painting on August 28.
On Wednesday, members of the Board of Commissioners responded when asked why Johnson left.
Deborah Inman stated that she was unaware of her resignation until he provided her at a workshop assembly on August 30 and had not heard of the goal of relieved Johnson of her duties.
Donna Patterson and Jerry Quick denied the accusation.
“He quit and wanted him to have good luck for his next adventure,” Patterson said.
Gudauskas declined to comment due to the personal factor, but said he also wanted Johnson the best.
When asked if the allegation was true, Mayor Tem Evans Jackson said: “Rodney has resigned and we wish him the best in his long-term endeavors.
Jackson declined to comment further.
“All I know is that she quit, ” said Annie Stephens. “That’s all I know. “
Stephens referred the questions to Mayor Elbert Gibson.
Gibson praised Johnson for his efforts and said he was sorry he left.
“We have appointed our acting secretary,” Gibson said.
Former secretary Debra McNeill was swore as interim city administrator at a Board of Commissioners assembly on September 10.
“She assumes the position of director on a basis,” Gibson said.
The mayor and the commissioners said the discussions would take a position later in the duration of their term. Gibson said the board would review the matter until January 1 to determine whether McNeill needs to become a full-time director or whether the city will seek office. new director.
“She is before,” Commissioner Patterson said.
McNeill took on many day-to-day jobs as city administrator after the resignation of the vanquished JRSteigerwald, Patterson said. Steigerwald resigned after a closed-door assembly with the commissioners on 9 August 2018. McNeill was never appointed administrator of the acting city during this period, but remained directors until Johnson was hired.
“She’s in what she does, ” said Patterson.
Steigerwald died in October 2018.
Johnson can be contacted for comment.
St. Pauls – A 21-year-old from St. Pauls has been charged with murder in connection with a shooting Tuesday in St. Louis. Pauls Green Apartments.
Donnell McAllister, 472 Chapel St. , has been charged with momentary manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of 25-year-old Damarcus Robinson of North Chapel Street in St. Louis. Pauls, said the police chief of St. Louis today. Pauls, Steve Dollinger, Robeson County Detention Center on a $200,000 security bond.
Officers responded around 7:49 p. m. Tuesday to a report of a shooting at 725 North Fifth St. , Dollinger said. When officials arrived at the site, they discovered Robinson was suffering gunshot wounds.
Officers administered first aid until the workers’ emergency medical corps arrived, he said. Robinson was transferred to southeastern Regional Medical Center, where he died as a result of his injuries.
McAllister remained at the site and was arrested by agents.
McAllister and Robinson were arguing about the previous shoot, Dollinger said.
“We are still investigating the explanation of the shooting,” the police leader said.
The State Bureau of Investigation helped deal with the crime scene.
Anyone with information about the shooting should call St. Paul at 910-865-5155.
The following robberies reported Tuesday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office:
Bobby Jacobs, Western United States, Rowland; Adrian Mabe, Indian Heritage Road, Lumberton; Kristen Baker, Alfordsville Road, Rowland; and Courtney Sampson, Dariancole Drive, Lumberton.
The following robberies reported Tuesday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office:
Betty Martinez, N. C. 71 North, Shannon; and Ericelda Ramirez, Strother Drive, Red Springs.
Cornelius Locklear reported Wednesday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office that he assaulted someone with a gun on Seneca Street in Pembroke.
Derrick Staten of Harleyville, South Carolina, reported Tuesday to the Lumberton Police Department that he broke into his vehicle while he was in the parking lot of Biggs Park Mall in 2800 N. Elm St. and stole his laptop.
MAXTON – RB Dean-Townsend School has worked to drastically reduce the number of internet-free academics as the era of virtual learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the school’s principal said.
Angela Faulkner said this in a presentation to the Maxton Board of Commissioners at the Council’s regular monthly assembly, who also told commissioners that at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, about 175 families with school students did not have Internet. That number has now been reduced to 29 of the 458 school-enrolled fellows.
Students who don’t have access to the Internet get a week of USB memory with pre-recorded classes and tasks downloaded from them.
Internet access was the school’s biggest fear when in-person categories ended in mid-March, Faulkner said. Spectrum has helped by providing affordable access for educational purposes to many families served throughout the school.
Faulkner said the county will soon send buses to serve as WiFi access points, and some Maxton companies have opened their doors to academics who need internet access.
In her report to the commissioners, Police Chief Na’Shayla Nelson said service calls increased by 92% in August compared to the same month in 2019, one of the main reasons for the overdose call flow, she said.
The branch is more Narcan for use in drug-related emergencies, making sure its officials are trained in drug emergency control and gathering knowledge on the subject, Nelson said.
Officers are running due to call accumulation and lack of department staff, Nelson said.
The branch is the first in North Carolina to participate in Operation Juice Box, a national program in which officials distribute cans of juice to young people in the spaces they patrol, Nelson said. This effort will continue.
The national evening, scheduled for October, was cancelled, Nelson said, but Maxton police officers will be visible on the net on that date.
Also Tuesday, commissioners discussed the 2020 U. S. Census. CEO Roosevelt Henegan and Commissioner Virgil Hutchinson are under pressure about the importance of Maxton citizens in population counts. end of September.
“We want to communicate to our neighbors and friends about the census, so that’s the cash we can expect,” Hutchinson said.
Resident Robert Macy spoke at the public forum part of the most important waste assembly in Maxton. Commissioner Elizabeth Gilmore asked why the city cannot simply enforce its garbage ordinances and publish symptoms that remind citizens not to get rid of waste.
“I think if you have visual cues, it gets better,” Gilmore said, “but I haven’t noticed a sign”Don’t throw Maxton in a long time. “
Henegan said the city may only have signs, which he says can be done administratively and without a board vote, and said implementation is complicated because police can only enforce waste legislation when they see waste being produced. He said that any citizen who sees garbage and is willing to go to court can rate the offender, and that citizens will have to act and do so.
Mayor Paul Davis said the city has been informed through a letter that the Lumber River Governing Council will hold its annual dinner and awards rite this year, but that its annual assembly will take virtually a position.
In other cases, the Commissioners approved the consent agenda, which included minutes of past meetings and tax changes from 13 August to 8 September.
FAIRMONT – Commissioners here were informed Tuesday that a new physical care center is on the way to town.
Robeson Health Care Corporation CEO Tim Smith said a new medical facility will be built, covering approximately 14,000 feet, at the South Robeson Medical Center site on South Walnut Street. The medical center and assets are owned by the company.
Construction of the new facility will begin in the next 60 days, he said, and the allocation will charge approximately $3. 5 million.
“This is a program we’re very, very proud of,” Smith said of the project.
The center will provide number one fitness care and will feature a behavioral fitness specialist, addiction specialist, intellectual fitness employee, and on-site dentist, he said. The center will also have a pharmacy.
“I think it will be an advantage for the citizens,” Mayor Charles Townsend said.
He believes the company will do everything it can to provide city citizens with the physical care they need, the mayor said.
In other areas, commissioners approved the capital improvement plan and asset control plan ready through LKC Engineering to help improve the city’s water and sewerage systems. The 10-year improvement plan is priced at $12. 8 million and requires improvements to pumping stations, ventilation system, access road to the city’s wastewater treatment plant and more.
Bill Lester, senior engineer at LKC Engineering, said the city deserves to make small changes where it can to save money and continue its systems.
“The concept is to aim and hold the chip, and have us do the right things first,” Lester said.
The company is helping the city apply for grants to cover safe expenses.
John Baker’s application for a conditional use permit to install a cell home at 110 Pine Street in an R-8 zoning district was also approved by a 4-1 vote. He legalized in the city in May 2019 the installation of a cell home on the property. , but did not place it within the allotted time.
When he implemented for a new permit, he discovered that the zoning district did not allow cell homes, Secretary Jenny Larson said. similar and she misunderstood the map. After studies and examination, he discovered that the domain is an R-8 zoning district.
The city’s plan-making council rejected the request due to court cases of neighbors who feared that the cell home would lower the price of their property.
Commissioner Felecia McLean-Kesler did not attend Tuesday’s meeting and Commissioner Terry Evans voted against it.
Evans said Commissioner Mount McCallum had to move his cell home after he was placed in a zoning district that did not allow cell homes. McCallum had moved a cell home to a zoning district containing nearby cell homes in 2018.
McCallum stated that a cell home about 500 feet from where he placed his, believing he was in the right area, but the position where space was located not in the R-5 zone.
“In fact, it’s up to me to stay in a meeting that’s so biased,” Evans said.
Voting will allow more people to request zoning exceptions, he said.
“Once you’ve let that genius out of the bottle, it’s too late, ” said Evans.
After the meeting, McCallum said he had the idea for the city to update its zoning to become an R-5 community and provide citizens with a more affordable housing option.
The city is working with LKC Engineering to update the zoning map, which is expected to be available by the end of the year, said Ricky Harris, interim director of the city.
Also on Tuesday, commissioners heard Tony Mackey, a managing spouse of the Fairmont Golf Club, who said water is drained from canals and other city spaces to the golf course. There are days when mild rains can force the field to close.
“What I’m asking for is a fair and equivalent remedy for drainage work,” Mackey said.
The U. S. Army Corps of EngineersHe’s already been worried about cleaning the city’s canals, but he’s stopped ever since. Evans asked Townsend why the Corps had stopped.
Townsend asked Harris to marry the Department of Public Works to review the drainage factor and provide the effects of this investigation to the Board of Commissioners for review.
Public Works Director Ronnie Seals said Morro Street had been repaired.
“This is back online now, so all of our s are working again,” Seals said.
Harris said assets are being demolished at 720 Mckoy Street and are expected to be cleaned in the coming weeks.
Attorney Jessica Scott said she ran with the state to locate features for a space on Mckoy Street that has $ 190,000 in Medicare privileges, belongs to the heirs of a deceased user and is worth just $ 25,000.
“We are at a standstill right now,” Scott said.
Nate Thompson, a resident of the city, asked the commissioners to continue cleaning up the city. He worked in the domain of Old Field until the appearance of the city.
“I’m worried about what it looks like, ” said Thompson.
“I hope we can continue and recover this ball that turned out to have fallen,” he said of demolition plans.
In other cases, commissioners approved the renewal of Cynthia Dudley’s term of office for another three-year term on abc’s board of directors and the authorization of the NCWorks Career Center to use the city courtroom in October as part of a virtual task fair.
SOUTHERN PINES – A guy from Maxton has been arrested in connection with a bank robber here, according to the Southern Pines Police Department.
Herbert Lynn Lowery, 41, arrested and charged with theft with a damaging weapon after First National Bank near southern pines center was robbed Monday morning. Lowery was captured with the help of the Hoke County Sheriff’s Office, the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI. according to the Police Department.
A guy came into the bank with a gun shortly after 11:20 a. m. and desa showered cash from employees, according to the police department. After receiving an uns specified amount of cash, the guy fled in a stolen 2000 Buick LeSabre.
Police did not say whether the cash or stolen vehicle was recovered at the time of Lowery’s arrest.
Lowery was placed in the Moore County Detention Center on a $500,000 security bond and is scheduled to appear in Moore County District Court on October 1.
Anyone with data about the theft should call 910-692-7031 or the Police Department’s crime hotline at 910-693-4110. The data can be anonymous.
LUMBERTON – Two other men have been charged with an invasion of a house in 2015 in which a man fired, according to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office.
Ismul Hines, 43, of Charlotte, and Kenneth McCoy, 26, of Laurinburg, or are charged with first-degree murder, four counts of armed robbery, fatal gun attack, fatal weapon attack causing serious injury and seven counts of kidnapping, according to the sheriff’s office. Hines is also charged with possession of a firearm through a criminal.
McCoy was arrested in Robeson County without bail for murder, according to the sheriff’s office, and earned a guaranteed bail of $1. 35 million on the remaining costs.
Hines imprisoned in Robeson County without bail for murder and earned a guaranteed bail of $1. 4 million on the other charges.
On September 28, 2015, at approximately 10:34 p. m. , sheriff’s workplace agents responded to block 3300 of Shaw Road in St. Louis. Paul in reference to an invasion of a house. On arrival, officers discovered Rodney Murphy, 51, from Maxton, who had died of a gunshot wound. During the invasion of the house, two other men were shot dead and a woman assaulted.
Hines living in Maxton at the time of Murphy’s death, according to the sheriff’s office.
Quatrell D. Nicholson, 29, and Carson B. Brown, 31, any from Laurinburg, were arrested in 2016 for Murphy’s death, according to the sheriff’s office. Nicholson and Brown are also charged with first-degree murder, four counts of armed robbery. , fatal weapon attack, fatal weapon attack causing serious injuries and seven counts of kidnapping. Nicholson and Brown in custody.
The investigation continues.
The Robeson District Attorney’s Office, the Laurinburg Police Department and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department helped in the investigation.
“Hines and McCoy’s arrests are examples of harsh paintings and continued determination to wipe out the families of those affected through investigators from the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office,” Sheriff Burnis Wilkins said. “Investigators will continue to stick to clues about unsolved homicide cases and homicides of other suspects who have not been charged.
Anyone with information about the case should contact the Homicide Division of the Robeson County Sheriff’s Department at 910-671-3100 or 910-671-3170.
RED SPRINGS – Continues search for a 19-year-old Red Springs boy wanted for an armed attack on a government official in Red Springs.
Caleb Alyn Brown, 208 Bryant Road, is wanted by an attack robber with a fatal weapon from a government official in connection with an incident on September 8, according to the Red Springs Police Department.
Brown last noticed he was driving a black Nissan Altima with the license plate emT8295, Red Springs Police Lt. McManus said. The plates were stolen in Cumberland County.
Two police officers responded to a report of a stolen state vehicle on Eighth Avenue, he said, when officers arrived, they met Brown, who was delivered to the vehicle, while an officer had his hand on an open door of the vehicle and spoke. with Brown, Brown fled.
The officer fell, but was not otherwise injured, McManus said.
Brown is described as has multicolored eyes and dreadlocks, measures approximately five feet and four inches, and weighs 1. 5 to 160 pounds.
If you are asked to call red Springs police sergeant Hausler or McManus at 910-843-3454 with data on Brown’s whereabouts.
LUMBERTON – Rowland Norment Elementary School has a backpack distribution scheduled for Thursday in honor and reminiscent of Kimberly Branch, a kindergarten that died on September 3 after a four-year war on cancer.
The distribution, which will take place from noon to 2 p. m. , was made imaginable thanks to the branch’s desire that instead of donating flowers, bags of books filled with school supplies would be donated to Rowland Norment’s kindergarten class.
“Well, what started out as bags of books from the age of 17 to 18 that we were going to give away to their main class, became more than 90 bags of books that we can distribute to our RNES kindergarten schoolchildren,” Rowland Norment said Principal Tara Bullard.
Branch’s son, Josh Branch, will be with the cast.
LUMBERTON – A salary for the public schools of the interim superintendent of Robeson County could be approved at thursday’s special assembly of the Board of Education, according to the spokesman for the school formula.
“Since this afternoon, the salaries of Ms. (Loistine) DeFreece and Mr. (Tony) Parker have been completed,” Burnette said Tuesday. “We hope that they will be completed and that we will provide the main points of their contracts to our Board of Education at Thursday’s meeting. “
DeFreece was hired at a school board assembly on September 8 after the resolve to fire Superintendent Shanita Wooten. DeFreece will serve on a monthly basis until a full-time superintendent is hired. She resigned from her position in District 1 on the school board in October 2019 after it was revealed that she lived outdoors in her district.
The board also voted on September 8 to hire Tony Parker as a weekly representative of DeFreece. Parker, head of a school in Johnston and Berkeley counties.
School board members are expected to talk about low-season education and conditioning for county sports groups at Thursday’s meeting. Training is scheduled to begin on Monday.
The school board assembly is scheduled for 6 p. m. at the PSRC headquarters on 100 Hargrave Street in Lumberton.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the assembly will be closed to the public. Members of the public can view the assembly by logging in online and clicking on the https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=DcJ4YEOpjmw
The Finance Committee of the Board of Education will meet on Thursday at 7 p. m.
The parts in the schedule are the investment of the CARES Act and the operational budget 2020-2021 of the PHRC. The assembly is transmitted on the same hyperlink.
“Robeson County Public Schools has used CARES’s investment to purchase child care materials and non-public protective appliances for the district, Wi-Fi access points for 39 buses, and are used to fund the salaries and benefits of Advocate Success students,” Burnette said. “As Robeson County Public Schools continue distance learning during the nine weeks of the school year, there will be a discussion about how CARES investment will be used to provide more generation resources to our teachers and students.
Also thursday, the Lumbee Tribal Council will meet with a Zoom video call.
The assembly will be broadcast live at 7. m. , to consult on the tribe in https://www. lumbeetribe. com/live-stream.
The points on the schedule come with the appointment of Millicient Collins as an interim member of the Electoral Council and Gary Deese to the Administrative Court, as well as the discussion of the First Nations Development Grant, the Good Neighbor Grant, and an amendment to the budget of the CARES Comprehensive Indigenous Housing Grant Act. Fixed, among other elements.
LUMBERTON – Health officials in Raleigh and Robeson counties are urging others to get vaccinated against influenza when the state enters flu season, the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This year, as COVID-19 continues to spread in our communities, getting vaccinated against the flu is incredibly vital,” said Dr. Mandy Cohen, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. “The flu can be a serious, deadly disease. It is vital to get vaccinated against the flu so that you and your circle of family remain healthy. “
It’s especially for pregnant women, children, adults over the age of 65, and others with chronic diseases who are vaccinated, said Bill Smith, director of the Robeson County Department of Health, and there’s a high-dose vaccine for those population groups.
“Because influenza and COVID-19 are your lungs, having them at the same time will overwhelm some people, hence the recommendation to get vaccinated against the flu,” Smith said.
Both diseases can lead to pneumonia, central injury, central inflammation and sepsis, he said. COVID-19 can cause blood clots in the veins and arteries.
“If there was a year to get vaccinated against the flu, that would be it,” Smith said.
Southeastern Health also urges everyone to get vaccinated against the flu this season, said Dr. Obiefuna Okoye, Southeastern Health’s medical director of infectious diseases.
“Flu vaccination this flu season will be the ultimate in people’s lives,” he said.
CoVID-19 grades are suspected to accumulate as time cools and others remain indoors, Okoye said. Staying indoors will increase the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Okoye said other people can protect themselves from flu and COVID-19 by getting vaccinated against the flu and practicing 3W: washing, putting on, waiting, washing their hands, keeping others away, and wearing masks/hats.
“Also, stay home when you’re sick,” he says.
Influenza vaccines can be obtained at all number one care clinics, clinics without an appointment, and for women at Southeastern Health.
Vaccines can also be obtained from pharmacies and fitness services, Smith said.
“There will probably be times behind the wheel during the winter,” he said. “Because our season is later than in the north, it is not recommended to get vaccinated until September. Some locations have not yet won their vaccine, while others have not. You deserve to touch the clinic involved to see what materials are available».
Flu season occurs in the fall and winter in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of the time, flu activity peaks between December and February, but activity can last until May. The effect of a flu season varies from season to season.
In North Carolina, influenza infections are most common from the overdue fall to early spring, with peak activity sometimes in January or February, according to NCDHHS. The following precautions should be taken to protect against the spread of influenza and other viruses such as COVID-19:
– Stay home in case of illness until there is no fever for at least 24 hours, for COVID-19. Follow CDC commands to complete COVID-19 isolation.
– Wash your hands with soap and water.
– Cover the cough and sneezing with a handkerchief, then discard the handkerchief quickly.
– Continue practicing 3W: dressing with a face that covers the nose and mouth, waiting 6 feet from each other and washing your hands can help delay the spread of COVID-19 and flu.
Symptoms of COVID-19 and influenza are similar, so other people who feel unhealthy should call ahead before going to a doctor, local fitness service, or emergency care, according to the state fitness agency. and/or COVID-19.
Flu symptoms come with fever, cough and/or sore throat, discharge or nasal congestion, headaches and/or pains, chills, fatigue and nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea, which are most common in children.
Anyone who thinks they have the flu deserves to contact their doctor without delay to see if they want a remedy with a prescription antiviral drug, such as Tamiflu, according to NCDHHS. Early remedy with an antiviral drug can help prevent the worsening of influenza infections Treatment with prescription antiviral drugs is critical for hospitalized patients, others with severe influenza, and those at increased risk of severe headaches due to age or health.
More data on influenza online from the Division of Public Health and the CDC can be found at www. cdc. gov/flu. For more information on COVID-19 in North Carolina, visit covid19. ncdhhs. gov.
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LUMBERTON – Two lumberton City Council members left Wednesday’s special assembly after one of them said racism was an explanation for why the guidance committee voted to reject a rezoning request.
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St. PAULS – The explanation for why the resignation of the former city administrator in August remains a mystery.
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St. Pauls – A 21-year-old from St. Pauls has been charged with murder in connection with a shooting Tuesday in St. Louis. Pauls Green Apartments.
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The following robberies reported Tuesday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office:
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MAXTON – The R. B. Dean-Townsend school has made efforts to particularly reduce the number of students without the Internet as the era of virtual learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the school’s principal said Tuesday.
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FAIRMONT – The commissioners here were informed Tuesday that a new fitness center is on its way to the city.
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