Kinston ready for HSOT.com Holiday Invitational challenge
Kinston’s boys basketball team has enjoyed a fairly smooth ride to perfection through its first nine games. But game No. 10 will pose quite a test. The Vikings (9-0) open the HighSchoolOT.Com...
View ArticleRuritan club installs new officers / Names in the news
Ruritan club installs new officers The Deep Run Ruritan Club installed new officers at its Dec. 10 meeting. Michael Gillette is the new president; Larry Powell is vice-president; Lori Murphy is...
View ArticleJones, DeSoto hand Kinston first loss
RALEIGH — Kinston could taste the upset, but nationally-ranked DeSoto was just a little too seasoned. Duke signee Matt Jones scored 17 points and the Eagles hit 15 of their last 16 free throws to...
View ArticleYouth fails to return to Dobbs
Law enforcement officers are seeking a Brunswick County youth who failed to return to the Dobbs Youth Development Center in Kinston after a visit home for Christmas. The youth, identified by the N.C....
View ArticleRetail Notebook: Byrd’s new owner is no new face in restaurant
The new owner of Byrd’s Restaurant is not new to the landmark country diner on N.C. 58 South. Darlene Ward had been working there for 16 years when she bought the restaurant in October. Byrd’s was...
View ArticleTop stories: September and October
Top stories of September 2012 2 - Three area coaches achieve success in weight loss mission. 3 - A Havelock soldier survives a bullet his head on Aug. 21 and receives Purple Heart decoration in...
View ArticleShooting claims 19-year-old's life
Kinston almost made it through the year without a homicide. The shooting death on Wednesday of Dajuquon “DJ” Poole, 19, as the result of a fight on King Street was the city’s first of 2012, according...
View ArticleNo deal on ‘fiscal cliff’ could mean delays in filing returns, receiving refunds
Staffers at Liberty Tax Service in Kinston are spending the final days of 2012 updating software, preparing to hire Liberty’s signature “wavers” — and waiting on Congress to get its financial house in...
View ArticleWith the new year comes a new busy season at work
Happy New Year everybody! Another tax season is around the corner and this one’s sure to be a humdinger. I’m a bit of a weird duck because I so enjoy what I do for a living. That in and of itself...
View ArticleKwanzaa brings ‘universal message’ of unity, shared responsibility
A few community members gathered to do than than observe Day 3 of the Kwanzaa holiday on Friday — they discussed the importance of bringing its principles into the community. About 10 people met at...
View ArticleThe top 2012 stories of November, December
November 1 — The daughter of a Kinston couple, Emilee Irsik, goes missing in Germany after taking an unannounced flight to Hamburg. 3 — Kinston celebrates city’s 250th anniversary with an event on...
View ArticleDementia patients to lose care hours, special care units to lose funding
Orabell Barfield is 94 years old and suffers from dementia. She was placed in Spring Arbor more than a year ago when her only son, Henry Barfield, couldn’t care for her anymore. Henry Barfield has a...
View ArticleNominee tapped for Graham seat
The executive committee of the Lenoir County Democratic Party has put forth a nominee to fill the vacancy on the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners — the remaining commissioners have the final say...
View ArticleCavs earn revenge of title game loss
RALEIGH — Last March in the NCHSAA state 2A championship it was Waxhaw Cuthbertson which saw its nice-sized second-half lead whittle away to nothing as Kinston rallied. On Friday — and again in...
View ArticleSouth Lenoir sweeps Hobbton
Ishmael Baldwin scored 24 points to lead three in double figures as South Lenoir defeated visiting Hobbton 65-40 in a non-conference game on Friday. Baldwin also had 11 rebounds, three assists and...
View ArticleCuthbertson knocks Kinston from HSOT Invitational
RALEIGH — In the first 16 minutes Friday Kinston imposed its will on Waxhaw Cuthbertson. The final 16 minutes were an entirely different story. Shelton Mitchell scored 19 points, and the Cavaliers...
View ArticleJohn Hood: State won't aid, abet Obamacare
RALEIGH — Politicians of all parties, at all levels of government, have been debating health care virtually nonstop since the early 1990s. If you’re tired of hearing about it, I have some bad news...
View ArticleLetters to the editor for Sunday, Dec. 30
Civil War series gave Lincoln break I have several comments on Dr. Lonnie Blizzard’s "The Civil War comes to Eastern North Carolina" series (The Free Press, Dec. 10-15). Although his presentation...
View ArticleFace forward as we move into a new year
There are plenty of reasons not to look forward to 2013, most of them stemming from the fact that the new year could look a lot like the old year. That, as we all know, has been a year of...
View ArticleSheraton Atlantic Beach officially under new ownership
ATLANTIC BEACH – A Carteret County hotel that has been closed since September 2011 is officially under new ownership. No upset bids were filed, paving the way for a Georgia-based company to take over...
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