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See our annual 16-page section devoted to the Small Business Expo, set for next Wednesday at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center. See who’s exhibiting and see this year’s floor plan
The Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce and CCCC will host its annual Small Business Banquet at the Civic Center. Guest of honor will be music legend Maurice Williams.
The Sanford Herald THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2010
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
MOTHER’S DAY
Group: EDC needs flexibility
WANT TO COLOR YOUR MOM PURPLE? The Herald is awarding four tickets to the May 25 performance of the Tony Award-winning “The Color Purple” at the Durham Performing Arts Center. To enter, just tell us in 100 or fewer words why your mom (or wife, grandmother or mother-inlaw) is best deserving of a night at the theater. Entries are due by midnight Sunday (Mother’s Day). The Herald will pick the winner on Monday morning and they’ll be notified that day. The winner gets four great seats to the opening night performance Send your entries to bhorner3@ sanfordherald.com.
TIMES SQUARE
Group of officials seek more creativity, better focus to boost local economy From staff reports BROADWAY — A small group of elected officials agreed Wednesday that the Lee County Economic Development Corporation needed to be more accountable — yet it also needed more flexibility in order to attract business and industry
here. “We put all our eggs in one basket 20 years ago and now we’re paying for it,” said Lee County Commissioner Amy Dalrymple, who presided at the afternoon session — the first of the ad hoc Economic Development Study Committee — at the Broadway council chambers.
Among the ideas the members — appointed by their respective boards to the committee — considered while brainstorming about the policies and practices of the county’s EDC: create a simpler incentives policy that allows for “outside
See EDC, Page 5A
LOCAL BUSINESS
YOUR THOUGHTS What do you think Lee County Economic Development Corporation needs to do to attract new businesses and industry? E-mail your thoughts to news@sanfordherald.com.
SANFORD
City won’t Popular eatery closes as ownership changes hands add new position to police force
OFFICIALS BELIEVE BOMBER ACTED ALONE
Council cites budget constraints for move
The Pakistani-American accused of a failed car bombing in Times Square is believed to have worked alone in the United States on the plot almost immediately after returning from a five-month visit to his native land, authorities said Wednesday
By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
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GULF OIL SPILL ASHLEY GARNER/The Sanford Herald
A customer peeks into the window of Fairview Dairy Bar Wednesday after learning the popular Sanford restaurant was closed as ownership changes hands.
Previous owners of Dairy Bar to resume operation BP: ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ ATTEMPT TO SAVE COAST A 12-man crew was making final preparations Wednesday to take a 100-ton contraption 50 miles off the Louisiana coast in an unprecedented attempt to help funnel out oil spewing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico
By JONATHAN OWENS owens@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — Regular customers at the Fairview Dairy Bar, a Sanford staple for more than 60 years, were greeted with bad news Wednesday in the form of a locked doors and closed
signs. But unlike most closings in an economic recession, this one is likely to be shortlived. A sign on the business’s locked door read that it was undergoing a change of ownership. The closure is the result of a change in ownership from
Fairview Dairy Bar LLC., headed by Rick Quinn, back to original owners Kathy and Paul Freedle. The Freedles foreclosed on a $200,000 loan to Quinn in mid-April because of missed payments,
See Closing, Page 5A
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BROADWAY
STATE JUDGE CUTS OFFICER’S SENTENCE IN HALF
A judge has cut in half the sentence of a former Robeson County sheriff’s lieutenant, marking the second time a law enforcement officer involved in the same corruption investigation has gotten a reduced sentence Page 8A
Vol. 80, No. 105 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
Teen seriously injured in crash By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
BROADWAY — A Sanford teen suffered serious injuries in a high-speed crash Monday afternoon in the Broadway area, the N.C. Highway Patrol said. Little information on the
HAPPENING TODAY n Temple Theatre’s final production of the 20092010 season, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific.” Showtimes are 2 and 7 p.m. For tickets, call (919) 774-4155 or visit www. templeshows.com. CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
crash was available at press time, but the Highway Patrol reported that 16-year-old Zane Tucker Crain, of 905 Copeland Road in Sanford, sustained major injuries when his car hit a tree and flipped. The Highway Patrol said Crain was traveling north on
Salem Church Road north of Broadway at the time of the time of the accident, moving 75 mph in a 55 mph speed limit zone. Crain apparently traveled across the center line of the road and then off the road to
See Crash, Page 3A
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SANFORD — City officials nixed talks to add an additional position at the Sanford Police Department Tuesday, citing budgetary constraints. City leaders were considering hiring out a new position staffing the front desk at the police department, pointing out injured and sick police officers have had to fill the desk job in recent months. Still, a majority of City Council members said that it wouldn’t be prudent as officials prep what is expected to be a tighter-than-normal spending plan for the next year. “With the economy and sales tax revenues down, we decided it was probably better not to fill it at this time,” said Councilman Samuel Gaskins. Moves to ax a new addition survived opposition from Council members James Williams and Leopold Cohen, and calls that leaving officers at the desk could cut down on police presence on the streets. Gaskins pointed to data indicating that the crime rate is declining in Sanford and that Sanford has more police officers per capita than the national average for a police force. “It’s inefficient the way it is, but it would be more inefficient if we hired additional personnel,” he said. Sanford Mayor Cornelia Olive said city leaders must be especially frugal in these times.
See Police, Page 3A
INDEX
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OBITUARIES
SCOTT MOONEYHAM
Sanford: Kathy Blackburn, 33; Judith McLeod, 61 Jamestown: Flossie Martin, 83 Moncure: Mary Harris, 88
As legislators come back into town, we know they’ll propose something silly
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