Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Mount Olive flooding problems
News-Argus/Bobby Williams The parking lot in front of the Piggly Wiggly store on Breazeale Avenue in Mount Olive is covered with water after a torrential rain Friday night. For more information see Trying to stop flooding....Published: Aug 2, 2005 2:11 PM Full Story
Board chair questions commission attitude
School board members said Monday night they have been optimistic about resolving their differences with the county commissioners, only to be blindsided by critical comments made during a commissioners' meeting broadcast on television. Board Chairman Lehman Smith said that when...Published: Aug 2, 2005 2:09 PM Full Story
Pope to get visit from BRAC today
Base Realignment and Closure commissioners Harold W. Gehman and James T. Hill were visiting Pope Air Force Base in Fayetteville today, according to the commission's Web site. Pentagon officials have recommended the commission close Pope and turn its facilities over...Published: Aug 2, 2005 2:06 PM Full Story
Meth lab found, 3 arrested
MOUNT OLIVE -- A potential methamphetamine lab was found in a mobile home and three men were arrested by Wayne and Duplin County authorities and the State Bureau of Investigation. The arrests early Monday capped a day-long investigation. Duplin County...Published: Aug 2, 2005 2:05 PM Full Story
Trying to stop flooding
MOUNT OLIVE -- Piggly Wiggly store owner Moses King said he has been waiting 20 years for Mount Olive to solve his store's flooding problems. Every time the area gets a heavy rain, runoff from the north and west settles...Published: Aug 2, 2005 2:01 PM Full Story
Chamber offers to take over Travel and Tourism
The Chamber of Commerce of Wayne County is offering to manage travel and tourism promotion for the city of Goldsboro. Chamber officials are proposing a contract with the city that would put management of the city's Travel and Tourism Advisory...Published: Aug 2, 2005 1:58 PM Full Story
City to allow speakers without prior notification
People who want to address the Goldsboro City Council will no longer have to sign up in advance to have their say. The council decided Monday to allow anyone to speak for three minutes without having to notify city officials...Published: Aug 2, 2005 1:56 PM Full Story
Mount Olive has liveliest election races in Wayne
Municipal races are shaping up in Mount Olive as the Friday filing deadline approaches for the November election. But filing for public office in several towns in Wayne County is lagging. Mount Olive has the liveliest races, with all seats...Published: Aug 2, 2005 1:52 PM Full Story
Training for substitute teachers begins
Registration began Monday for substitute teaching training to work in Wayne County Public Schools. Individuals who are not certified are encouraged to attend one of two sessions being offered at the administrative offices on Royall Avenue. The first will be...Published: Aug 2, 2005 1:50 PM Full Story
Public records
Driver arrested on Wilson County rape charge PRINCETON -- When Princeton police investigated the criminal record of an alleged speeding driver on Sunday, an officer found the driver was wanted in Wilson County on a 4-year-old sex charge. Officer John...Published: Aug 2, 2005 1:49 PM Full Story
Princeton board votes 4-0 to annex six properties
PRINCETON -- The town of Princeton may be getting a little bigger. Two landowners asked to be annexed, and the town on Monday night started the process to annex involuntarily four other properties. One of the four property owners, Jackie...Published: Aug 2, 2005 1:48 PM Full Story
Pilots are looking for cheaper fuel, too
Local drivers are not the only ones in search of lower gas prices. Pilots are also searching for bargains on increasingly more expensive jet fuel, local airport officials say. Some pilots are stopping at Goldsboro-Wayne Municipal and Duplin County airports...Published: Aug 2, 2005 1:47 PM Full Story
Student gets 1,000 dollar scholarship from Coca-Cola Foundation
Wayne Community College Student Jenna Christine Fail has been awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. She is one of 400 students attending schools granting two-year degrees to receive a $1,000 scholarship this year from the Coca-Cola Two-Year...Published: Aug 2, 2005 1:47 PM Full Story
Calypso targets property cleanup
CALYPSO -- Town commissioners are looking into how much it would cost to clean up overgrown lots that some Calypso residents have been complaining about for months. Jimmy Turner told the Calypso town board Monday night the overgrown lot near...Published: Aug 2, 2005 1:46 PM Full Story
City council denies rezoning
The Goldsboro City Council denied the rezoning of property on Country Day Road to permit an office. Council members voted unanimously Monday to deny the request by J. Isaac Gurley Farms to rezone a two-acre lot on the southeast corner...Published: Aug 2, 2005 1:45 PM Full Story