Election surprises get a jump on filings
Election surprises got a big jump on election filings this week when two incumbents announced they wouldn’t seek another term in office. Their decisions — both surprises — will have a big impact on...
View ArticleState cultural resources secretary visits CSS Neuse center
State Secretary of Cultural Resources Susan Kluttz listens as N.C. Division of Historic Sites and Properties Director Keith Hardison discusses the CSS Neuse and efforts to preserve it at the CSS Neuse...
View ArticleBond denied in Beulaville homicide case
BEULAVILLE — A Duplin County man killed another man earlier this week out of love for his wife, not hatred of the man with whom she was having an affair, a defense attorney said in court Friday. Max...
View ArticleCapital Correspondence
House Roll-Call Votes HB 4 — Unemployment Insurance Changes: Establishes a procedure for addressing the unemployment insurance debt and focuses North Carolina’s unemployment insurance program on...
View ArticleOn Assignment: Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
Each year, nearly 75,000 swans, three-quarters of the eastern swan population, fly south to spend the winter in northeastern North Carolina. They come seeking the abundant food sources that are...
View ArticleHanks: A busy news week finally comes to a close
There are some weeks where I struggle to come up with a good idea for a column. But then there are those weeks where I could seriously write a column every day. Last week would fall into the latter...
View ArticleRural life old and new glimpsed at ‘Sit a Spell’
Animals, meals, animals that are meals and inventive repurposing of toilet paper substitutes. There was a little of everything talked about when local author and historian Ella Joyce ‘E.J.’ Stewart...
View ArticleLocal educators seek assistance
State legislators addressed a Lenoir County Schools agenda meeting last week by asking for a specific list of needs related to equalizing public and charter schools’ relief from policy. Lenoir County...
View ArticleFleeing the flu bug
Coughing, sneezing, high fever and chills, headache and aching body — those are some of the typical symptoms of influenza, or the flu. The influenza season started early this year and some people were...
View ArticleSutton ready for second PIFL season, eyes NFL
Brandon Sutton doesn’t know the meaning of the word “quit.” Throughout his life, there have been times when quitting would’ve been easy. As a senior at Greene Central High School, the big colleges...
View ArticleGeorge Will: Ohio senator wants to break up biggest banks
WASHINGTON — With his chronically gravelly voice and relentlessly liberal agenda, Sherrod Brown seems to have stepped out of “Les Miserables,” hoarse from singing revolutionary anthems at the...
View ArticleJohn Hood: No time to be looking back
RALEIGH — Although Raleigh is a much different state capital than it was when I started writing about politics in the late 1980s – the ratios of plaids to pinstripes and of diet sodas to high-test...
View ArticleLetters to the editor for Sunday, Feb. 10
No merit badges earned for displaying intolerance Regarding Jimbo Perry’s comments concerning the Boy Scouts of America (The Free Press, Jan. 30) I’m compelled to publicly ask Mr. Perry to explain his...
View ArticleOn sales tax increase, 'no' means 'no'
In North Carolina, the local option sales tax accounts for the incremental difference between counties in the tax tacked on to retail sales. Unfortunately, in Lenoir County, the “option” to increase...
View ArticleMiller-Brown
Jamie Patterson Miller of Snow Hill and Michael Corbett Brown III of Wilmington were united in marriage at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 9, 2013, at Saint James Parish in Wilmington. The Rev. Ronald George Abrams...
View ArticleBrown – Chase
Mike and Becky Brown of Kinston announce the engagement of their daughter, Emily Brown, to Matthew Chase, son of Angie Chase and Jerry Chase, also of Kinston. A March 23 wedding is being planned in...
View ArticleCouple celebrates golden anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard E. White of Kinston celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Jan. 18, 2013. A dinner was given by the couple’s children — Pam Ghiringhelli and husband Denny, of Napa, Calif., and...
View ArticleBirths/Adoptions
Grady William Tyler Grady and Eliza Douglas Stancil Grady of Greenville announce the adoption of a son, Matthew West Grady, born Jan.15, 2013, and placed in his family’s arms on Feb. 6. Maternal...
View ArticleLCC announces honors lists
Lenoir Community College has released the names of students who have been named to the president’s list and the dean’s list for the 2012 fall semester. Names to the president’s list are: Hunter...
View ArticleArts center events celebrate Black History Month
A visual arts exhibit, to run through Feb. 23, opened Jan. 8 at the Community Council for the Arts, setting the stage for Kinston-Lenoir County patrons to celebrate Black History Month this month. The...
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