Woodmen rep presents flag / Names in news
Woodmen rep presents flag Lynn Hill, representative with Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society, presented the United States Flag on April 23 to Commander A. L. Maness of the City of Kinston....
View ArticleFilling the Frame: 'Summer's Coming'
City of Kinston maintenance worker Fred Dillahunt applies a strip of sky-blue paint just above the stairs at the shallow end of the pool Thursday at Emma Webb Park. Five-gallon buckets of paint...
View ArticleParker: Honor student’s lapse in memory: Does the punishment fit the crime?
Eighteen-year-old David Cole Withrow, honor student at Princeton High School and an Eagle Scout, went skeet shooting over the weekend. About midday, he realized he had left an unloaded shotgun in his...
View ArticleMeadows’ Principal of the Year award adds notch to Jones Senior success belt
TRENTON — It’s been a year laced with one achievement after another for Jones Senior High School. At the end of his second year, the school’s principal, Chris Meadows tops it off as the county’s...
View ArticleTag & Tax delay causes double duty for county tax offices
A two-month delay in the state’s Tag & Tax Together program has some county tax offices up in arms. “We’ve been working on it like a bunch of dogs since November,” Greene County Tax...
View ArticleKinston High School grad receives USAF recognition
When she graduated from Kinston High School in 2006, Tiffany Miles was looking at a career in art. And now she’s being recognized — again — for her outstanding service in the U.S. Air Force. A member...
View ArticleKinston man shares what it’s like to drive a showy car around the city
Cardiesse Veal made an oblivious decision when he purchased a paint job for his car two years ago. When does a Honda get so much attention? Maybe when it’s vibrantly orange. Veal, 31, said the bright...
View ArticleGOP supermajority stirs passions, stakes new direction
N.C. voters wanted change in state government, and they got it. Successive elections gave Republicans power in the General Assembly, then supermajorities and a GOP governor. Nearly halfway through the...
View ArticleLenoir County arrest reports
The following arrests were reported by the Lenoir County Sheriff's Office: Kurtis Roy Graham, 22, 268 Gardenia St., Kinston, April 3, misdemeanor indecent exposure. Bond: None. Arresting officer:...
View ArticleNC couple accused of zip-tying 4-year-old girl
The Associated Press North Carolina authorities are accusing a couple of using zip ties to bind their 4-year-old daughter's wrists and ankles to a baby gate. Raleigh police say 26-year-old...
View ArticleGolfing for the heart / Names in news
Golfing for the heart “Fighting heart disease, one stent at a time” is the goal for this year’s Lenoir Memorial Foundation’s superball golf tournament, scheduled for 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday at the...
View ArticleJail name changed, LCSO applies for school deputy grant
Congratulations, you’ve been arrested. But you’re not going to the Lenoir County Jail. You’re going to the W.E. “Billy” Smith Detention Center. The Lenoir County Board of Commissioners approved the...
View ArticleSelf-starter makes a clean sweep
Curtis Drake Jr. was just a teenager when he started his career from the ground up. Literally, he began by cleaning floors. At the age of 16, his preacher found him two doctor’s offices to clean on...
View ArticleColumn: Table maintenance specialist says so long to Kinston restaurant
Editors note: This column originally was published Oct. 29, 2012. For roughly five years during my high school/college career, I was a table maintenance specialist at The Barn Steakhouse in Kinston....
View ArticleJob outlook for young adults bleak
Youth unemployment is at its highest sustained level since World War II. So says a report from Generation Opportunity, a national nonprofit youth advocacy organization. Instead of rolling right into...
View ArticleLast chance
Children’s Village Academy gets one last chance to wipe away the vestiges of Hurricane Irene. The State Board of Education chose not to take action regarding revoking the school’s charter, and the...
View ArticleNotebook: Kinston soccer hosts first round match
Kinston’s girls soccer didn’t draw a 1-seed, but it drew a first round state playoff match nonetheless. The Vikings (7-9-2), who drew the Eastern Plains 2A Conference’s 2-seed after the regular...
View ArticleRams fall, settle for EP2A 2-seed
BETHEL — Exactly one week ago Greene Central’s baseball team sat two games back of North Pitt in the loss column, all alone in second place and content if that’s the way things played out. They did....
View ArticleKinston arrest reports
The following arrests were reported by the Kinston Dept. of Public Safety: Mercedes Qudanial Gray, 24, 210 E. Washington St., La Grange, April 9, misdemeanor all traffic, misdemeanor all other....
View ArticleUpdated May 6: 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...
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