Revised annual jail contract to save Greene $19,000
SNOW HILL — Greene County commissioners have approved a proposed revised contract with Southern Health Partners, a provider of inmate healthcare services for county and city correctional facilities....
View ArticleBoy Scouts kick-start food drive
If you open your door and find a blue door hanger card around the knob, it’s something you should read. A group of Boy Scouts and their parents used their Saturday afternoon to distribute hundreds of...
View ArticleExtreme makeover
Chad Pike, 5, will hopefully remember the hard work he did painting his school’s new playground. Children, teachers, parents and area volunteers helped piece together new playground equipment for...
View ArticleTwo Kinston stars reflect on pivotal Super Bowl
One shot. One chance. That’s all you get. If you’re lucky. Being a football player and making a team in the National Football League is accomplishment enough. Being a member of a group of players who...
View ArticleLancers fall again
Bobby Dawson saw the fight in his Lenoir Community College men’s basketball team that has been missing. But when the final horn sounded, the end result was the same. The Lancers had suffered their...
View ArticleParker: Library ‘cruise’ heading for the South Pacific
In the past years, organizers of the cruise fund-raiser have taken participants to Ireland for St. Paddy’s Day, to New Orleans for Marti Gras, and to the Wild West. Organizers even arranged for...
View ArticleA love of synchronicity from Snow Hill singer
MAURY — Forming a band isn’t just a matter of finding a variety of singers and musicians and putting them together. The way they harmonize together just has to click. At least that’s what Brian Stark...
View ArticleFilling the Frame: Flying low
Flying low, tight maneuvers over deep blue Kinston-area skies on Wednesday were two United States Air Force KC-10 aircraft. The large tankers could be best seen here, as they flew over NC-58 at the...
View ArticleDavenport paid back his fair share
SNOW HILL — Former County Manager Don Davenport repaid the $15,079.49 he was overpaid in the seven years he had worked for Greene County until August before he retired Dec. 31. “(Davenport) paid it in...
View ArticleScholarship hunt for high school seniors
Already a month into the New Year, area high school seniors’ graduations are looming near — and they’re trying to make scholarships appear. High school guidance counselors are working overtime with...
View ArticleLenoir County senior named Park Scholar finalist
DEEP RUN — Cameron Gray, a South Lenoir High School senior, has progressed to the final round of the North Carolina State University Park Scholarship Program. The program is one of the most...
View ArticleUpdated Feb. 3: Mugshots of people arrested in Lenoir County
Click HERE to view to view a PDF document that includes photos of inmates processed at Lenoir County jail this week. To access previous entries, click on the "MUGSHOTS" tab in the crime section on...
View ArticleSuperior court decisions
(The following decisions were reached between August and October, 2012). The following decisions were reached in Lenoir County superior court in August, 2012. The presiding judge was the Hon. Paul...
View ArticleN.C. judge to hear software sweepstakes case
(AP) -- A judge in Davidson County is to consider a request to dismiss a lawsuit against Gov. Pat McCrory and another state official by an Internet sweepstakes business. The Winston-Salem...
View ArticleMcCrory appoints new members to Board of Education
(AP) Gov. Pat McCrory has appointed three new members to the State Board of Education. McCrory told legislative leaders he's chosen Bill Cobey of Durham, Greg Alcorn of Salisbury and Becky Taylor of...
View ArticleNorth Korea makes another bid for attention
North Korea evidently has felt left out of world headlines of late. So the repressive regime of this isolated nation has decided to remind the United States and South Korea, its two hated enemies,...
View ArticleCapital correspondence
Capital Correspondence ending Jan. 31 House Roll-Call Votes HR 2 — Honor William L. Wainwright: A House resolution honoring the life and memory of William L. Wainwright, former member of the General...
View ArticleNew truck means better service for Hugo VFD
Out with the stick, in with the bucket. When it came time for the Hugo Volunteer Fire Department to replace a 25-year-old fire truck, it went a step up. The older truck’s aerial was all ladder,...
View ArticleGrowing food, weeding out poverty
Laura Early’s experience of being ordered out of a courtroom led to her current passion of helping break the cycle of poverty. While serving jury duty, she watched a lawyer tell a young woman caught...
View ArticleColumn: Why are we punished for taking a day off?
While writing this on Monday I should be looking forward to my day off today … but I am not. I’ve grown to dread the day before vacation starts because any and everything that could ever go wrong will...
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