Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Keen calls for schools/county meeting
Wayne County Commissioner Steve Keen, who last month failed to sway his fellow commissioners to call for a joint meeting with the Wayne County Board of Education, Monday night took his case directly to the school board. Tuesday morning he...Published: Jul 11, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
Company gets incentive; town gets better water
Mt. Olive Pickle Co. could be in line to receive $70,000 in economic incentive funding from Wayne County as the company prepares to make $10 million in investments in real property including land and improvements, machinery and equipment over the...Published: Jul 11, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
ECU performers practice at Paramount
Wayne County residents got a rare behind-the-scenes look at one of three productions that will soon take to the Paramount Theatre stage. Students with East Carolina University School of Theatre and Dance are in town all week to perform for...Published: Jul 11, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
Driver loses control, hits neighbor's home
Kelly Springs Road in Mount Olive played host to a neighborhood get-together of a different sort Tuesday. James Whitman, 71, of 150 Kelly Springs Road, left his house in the early afternoon to visit his wife at a nursing home....Published: Jul 11, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
Matt Bartlett Band to headline concert at Busch Gardens
The Matt Bartlett Band may have had a built-in audience when it was chosen as opening act for popular contemporary Christian recording artist Third Day at Busch Gardens last month. But the sold-out crowd and response to the Facebook...Published: Jul 11, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
Eastpointe merger done, more changes still on the way
More than 10 years after the original state mental health reform efforts, the local system is still undergoing change -- the latest on July 1 when Eastpointe tripled in size, growing from four to 12 counties. The next major...Published: Jul 11, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
Public record
Identity theft A former roommate allegedly used a Kinston woman's personal information to obtain electric services. Frenchshall Dunk attempted to have power turned on at her new residence Monday only to be told she already had an account at an...Published: Jul 11, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
Optimists collecting computers Saturday
The Goldsboro Optimist Club will hold another Computers4Kids Collection Day Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Sam's Club parking lot to collect used computers and equipment in working or repairable condition. The Optimist Computers4Kids program provides...Published: Jul 11, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
Sign-up period under way for those who want to grow hybrid biofuel grass
CLINTON -- The sign-up period has begun for people who want to grow hybrid perennial grasses for a facility that would convert the grasses into ethanol even though no formal announcement has been made as to whether or not...Published: Jul 11, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story