Mayor Irene Brisson of Dublin was elected chairman of the newly formed Municipal Association of Bladen County.

Larry Haynes, a dispatcher with the Elizabethtown office of the North Carolina Highway Patrol, was killed in a single engine plane crash in Duplin County.

The Annual Bladen County Rescue Squad Telethon was scheduled to be aired over WBLA.

Contestants were being sought for the 1985 Miss Water Festival Contest to be held in May at White Lake.

The Clarkton Blue Devils basketball team won the Class 1-A District II Tournament.

Bladen County was third in the state in number of deer harvested with 2,030.

Marc Butler, a welding student at Bladenboro High School, won first place in the District IV VICA contest.