Criswell – Stanley
Debbie Criswell and Craig Edwards of Grifton announce the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth Pratt Criswell, to Donald Milton Stanley Jr. of Grifton, son of Donald Stanley and Sandra Stanley of...
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Susan Pearlstine of Charleston, S.C., announces the engagement of her daughter, Amy Jeanette Foster, to Joseph Sidney Bower Jr., both of Charleston, S.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sidney Bower of...
View ArticleClark: It’s not against the law to have an open mind
Sometimes, I think we lose sight of what is truly important and tend to focus on issues that are, well, frivolous. It’s odd that in a time of unlimited knowledge and data, it almost seems people are...
View ArticleNix: It’s time to return to the America that was
It’s not too often the words flow freely from my pen as they are at this very moment. For those of you that have been following the civil liberties debate regarding illegal immigrants and their...
View ArticleA sweet time of year
Every year, booths are set up in front of shopping centers and community events are lined with colorful boxes being sold by smiling faces of little girls. And what are in those colorful boxes?...
View ArticleLenoir County Schools show strides in positive behavior efforts
Fifteen Lenoir County Schools were recognized last week by the state’s Department of Public Instruction at a Durham ceremony for how well the Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Initiative was...
View ArticleWhat an expensive habit
You wish you could quit, but you can’t. There it is, on the street corner: gasoline. It was cheaper when you started, but you need it to keep going, and the price just keeps heading up, taking a...
View ArticleCarlyle wins Miss Neuse
When the final tally of judges’ scores was in, Caroline Minges Carlyle was named Miss Neuse 2013 in competition Saturday night at the Grainger Hill Performing Arts Center. Her successor, Miss Neuse...
View ArticleAKAs look back on 2012
Zeta Omicron Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. is a Greek sorority dedicated to service to all mankind. The national mission statement is “Global Leadership through Timeless Service.”...
View ArticleYWOC to celebrate Black History Month
The Young Women’s Outreach Center will be sponsoring the sixth annual Black History Oratorical Contest at 6 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library’s Schechter Auditorium. The event...
View ArticleKinston boys earn No. 1 seed
Kinston’s boys basketball team finished the regular season ranked No. 1 in the final statewide media 2A poll. The Vikings earned a No. 1 seed for the state playoffs to go along with it. Kinston, the...
View ArticlePreSchool ministry learns about farming / Names in the news
PreSchool ministry learns about farming Jimmy Hill, president of Tull Hill Farms, visited HIS KIDS PreSchool Wednesday. During his visit, he talked with the children about planting seeds and the...
View ArticleThey’ve finally made it
DEEP RUN — Caroline Jones had those moments where she wanted to give up basketball. After all, as a four-sport athlete at South Lenoir the program she was part of that was the least successful was...
View ArticleWhite & Allen attorneys receive recognition
White & Allen, P.A. attorneys Ramsay “Tyler” Archie, John C. Bircher, C. Gray Johnsey and Matthew S. Sullivan have been selected to “Business North Carolina” magazine’s Legal Elite. These lawyers...
View ArticleAKA to sponsor its 20th biennial debutante Cotillion
The members of Zeta Omicron Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. are preparing for their 20th Biennial Debutante Cotillion. This year’s theme is “A Waltz in Wonderland.” The Cotillion is...
View ArticleBaska’s HR propels Air Force to victory
Through eight innings Saturday night Navy and Air Force matched each other run for run with neither team leading by more two along the way. But going into the final frame tied, it only took one...
View ArticleKathleen Parker: RINOs, unite and be heard
WASHINGTON — RINO-hunting, the long popular political sport that morphed in 2008 into a sort of hysteria-driven obsession, lately has become a suicide mission. RINO, of course, refers to Republicans...
View ArticleGun permits part of the public record
A North Carolina lawmaker thinks the names of concealed handgun permit and gun purchase permit holders should be a state secret. State Sen. E.S. “Buck” Newton, R-Wilson, is sponsoring a bill to...
View ArticleGeorge Will: Sequester's spending cuts a manufactured crisis
WASHINGTON — Even during this desultory economic recovery, one industry thrives — the manufacture of synthetic hysteria. It is, however, inaccurate to accuse the Hysteric in Chief of crying “Wolf!”...
View ArticleJohn Hood: Now is the winter of the GOP
RALEIGH — Now is the winter of our discontent. Or so said Shakespeare’s Richard III, a fictional villain who may have borne at least some resemblance to the fellow just found buried under a parking...
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