🌱 For a Pembroke farmer, growing food means navigating uncertain ground
Pembroke, North Carolina Patch AM: a 3 min readHi Pembroke! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- For a Pembroke farmer, growing food means navigating uncertain ground
- Two Braves earn conference honors after a strong season finale
- Lumbee partnership uncovers thousands of years of Robeson County history
Also on today's calendar: Volleyball Semi-finals and Final Game - UNCP.
Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Partly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 75 and low of 50 degrees.
- Thursday: Partly sunny and breezy, temps: high: 73, low: 43.
- Friday: Mostly sunny and cooler, with a high of 60 and low of 36 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• North Carolina's Native-owned farms connect generations through land (dailytarheel.com) — Pembroke farmer Ellery Locklear grew a high-school vegetable patch into a roughly 150-acre operation, but access to land remains uncertain: about 50 acres he rents are for sale. His experience is part of a broader look at North Carolina's Native farmers, who are feeding communities while confronting obstacles to passing farming on. 
• Braves' Ehrlich, Navidad earn CC Player of the Week honors (robesonian.com) — Two UNC Pembroke football players earned conference honors after the Braves closed the regular season with a 45-14 win over Ferrum. Quarterback Josh Ehrlich accounted for five touchdowns to collect his fourth offensive award this season, while kicker Jared Navidad earned his second special teams honor.
• App State-Lumbee Tribe partnership documents ancient sites in Robeson (robesonian.com) — Lumbee tribal members and student researchers are documenting ancestral sites in Robeson County, uncovering artifacts as old as 6,500 years. UNC Pembroke students joined this summer's field school, and the App State-led team plans to return in November with ground-penetrating radar to investigate sites without excavation.
📸 Around Pembroke
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World Ballet Company - The Nutcracker →
Givens Performing Arts Center, 359 Prospect Rd, Pembroke
6:00 pm
Sunday November 22
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Other local events
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Volleyball Semi-finals and Final Game - UNCP →
Lumbee Guaranty Bank Court, 403 East 3rd Street, Pembroke
7:30 pm -
An Ole Timey Christmas →
104 Main Street, Pembroke
7:00 pm
Saturday November 14
Friday December 4
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Between the Lines - RSA →
Red Springs Artspace, 200 South Main Street, Red Springs
12:00 pm -
Title One Night
Long Branch Elementary School, 10218 North Carolina Hwy 72, Lumb
4:30 pm -
Maxton Turkey Trot →
Maxton NC
Wednesday November 11
Monday November 16
Saturday November 21
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Dunkin' posted a job opening for Shift Leader in Pembroke. Apply here.
- University of North Carolina Pembroke posted a job opening for Assistant/ Associate Professor - 3284 in Pembroke. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Pembroke here.
🗞 Nearby News
Laurinburg
- Lumberton Approves Data Center Rules (cityviewnc.com)
- Owner of NC tax business sentenced to federal prison for role in nearly $24M COVID fraud scheme (cbs17.com)
- Judge blocks Medicaid rule limiting work requirement exemption for medically frail patients (dailytarheel.com)
Raeford
- Missing since 2005 from Raeford, North Carolina: Diana Gonzalez was only 14 when she was taken (newsbreak.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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