From Vegas to Kinston
Shana Tucker is a cellist and singer/songwriter whose music is a mix of acoustic pop and soulful, jazz-influenced contemporary folk. Her debut solo project, “SHiNE,” outlines a musical journey that...
View ArticleGoldsboro artist conducts Ikebana workshop for Kinston gardeners
Merry Sensing, accessory manager and floral designer for Anderson’s Interiors in Goldsboro, conducted an Ikebana workshop March 14 for Kinston’s Home Gardener’s Garden Club at St. Mary’s Episcopal...
View ArticleHuckabee visits ENC
NEW BERN — “This is The Mike Huckabee Show and we are live from New Bern, North Carolina,” Huckabee said from a New Bern Riverfront Convention Center podium Friday before more than 500 cheering fans....
View ArticleHanks: We need your help at the Daily Free Press
If you’re a longtime reader or subscriber of paper edition of The Free Press, you’ve certainly noticed some changes in the product you’re holding in your hands today. Nearly four years ago, upper...
View ArticleThe great outdoors
Temperatures are increasing and so are outdoor activities as it finally begins to feel like spring in Lenoir County. The laughter of children could be heard all over Neuseway Nature center as they...
View ArticleClark: Is the ‘glass ceiling’ holding women down ...?
Facebook’s CFO Sheryl Sandberg made some interesting remarks regarding women and their careers recently. In her book and subsequent press tour, Sandberg stated there was a vast shortage of women in...
View ArticleLCC to host first Career Day at Spirit
Lenoir Community College, in conjunction with Spirit AeroSystems, will host its first Advanced Manufacturing Career Day Tuesday. The event will give people interested in working with Spirit or taking...
View ArticleSecond Pink Hill Rose Festival growing bigger this year
PINK HILL — The second annual Pink Hill Rose Festival will be held Saturday at the Pink Hill Wellness and Education Center. Hosted by the Pink Hill Area Preservation and Development Committee, an...
View ArticleHills is new COG director
Judy Hills has certainly climbed some hills in her career with Eastern Carolina Council of Governments before recently being named to the top spot in the nine-county agency. First hired in 1994 by a...
View ArticleLocal students on social media distractions
Social media has come a long way since the Bulletin Board System, a forum where users un-coded files, games and messages in the 1970s. Teenagers today probably wouldn’t recognize the likes of the BBS...
View ArticleLeague spotlights artist / Names in the news
League spotlights artist Mina Miller has been the Lenoir County Artist League’s “Artist of the Month” for March. A long time member of the Community Council for the Arts, 400 N. Queen St., she has...
View Article‘Birds in harmony’ names winners
The Eastern North Carolina Birdhouse Show, Sale and Competition ended Sunday, four weeks after opening for public view at Kinston’s Historic Harmony Hall. As patrons shared tables under white tents on...
View ArticleParker: CIT championship shows ECU basketball is improving
I sat before my television Tuesday evening to watch North Carolina’s sole remaining postseason team compete for a championship. Most of us in North Carolina are accustomed to having a team from our...
View ArticleFilling the Frame: Gathering pollen
A bumblebee nestles inside a dogwood blossom Friday off Queen Street. Bees, butterflies and a variety of insects gather pollen in spring, extending the process of growth nature as the fine granules of...
View ArticleBeauty parlor to donate half its earnings
Kinston’s Beauty Box is ready for a second SPCA(Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) fundraiser, which Tonya Adams, owner and stylist, is hoping to make an annual event. On her birthday...
View ArticleHagan treads carefully as reelection battle begins
It’s hard out there for a senator. Specifically, an incumbent, red-state Democratic senator. North Carolina’s U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan is up for her first reelection in 2014, after stunning then-incumbent...
View ArticleMarine, girlfriend accused in wife’s shooting death
JACKSONVILLE — A Camp Lejeune Marine and his girlfriend have been accused of shooting his wife in Alabama. Marquis Cheatham, 23, of Front Street in Montgomery, Ala., and Dominique Atkinson, 21, of...
View ArticleLocal business owner helps organize Really Awesome Dog Day
It’s all about the dogs, really. When Judy Ellis of Raising Awareness for the Developmentally Disabled contacted Teena Williams about organizing a dog day to benefit RADD, she went to the right...
View ArticleLenoir County arrest reports
The following arrests were reported by the Lenoir County Sheriff's Office: Paul Thomas Jones, 31, 109 East Greene St., Hookerton, March 21, misdemeanor order for arrest/child support. Bond:...
View ArticleKinston arrest reports
The following arrests were reported by the Kinston Dept. of Public Safety: Edward Lee Croom, 43, 114 N. Independence St., Kinston, March 21, two counts felony obtaining money/property by false...
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