"If you want to be represented by a Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee or Jim DeMint type, send me to the US Senate."
Published: Sunday, March 31st, 2013 @ 5:49 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Austrian economist and philosopher F.A. Hayek is probably best known for his argument that we are usually better off if we rely on the spontaneous order that emerges from peaceful human interactions than order that is coercively imposed by government officials.
Published: Sunday, March 31st, 2013 @ 5:42 pm
By: George Leef
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Mr. Donald E. Rice, age 69, a former resident of the Clay Root Community in Ayden, died Friday, March 29, 2013.
Published: Sunday, March 31st, 2013 @ 5:23 pm
By: Announcements
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Virginia S. Pollard, age 91, of Chocowinity, died Friday, March 29, 2013 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Sunday, March 31st, 2013 @ 5:18 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Joshua Tayloe “J.T.” Woolard, Jr., age 71, a resident of 210 Juniper Dr., Washington, died Friday, March 29, 2013 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Sunday, March 31st, 2013 @ 5:14 pm
By: Announcements
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Join the Beaufort County Community College Foundation, Saturday, May 4, for a trip to Durham to see the award-winning stage production of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and enjoy a taste of the Australian outback.
Published: Sunday, March 31st, 2013 @ 8:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Students in Kellie Mercer's and Robbins Rees' 1st grade class participated in learning about the importance of dental health. Dr. Marcus Jones, DDS, visited their class having each child demonstrate...
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 10:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In 2007, the General Assembly passed major energy legislation, SB 3, that would deliberately raise electricity prices in North Carolina through a Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (RPS)
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 10:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Inspiration is abundant for composer Salvatore Macchia. "Bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, insects - they're all around us!" East Carolina University student performers sang from his script this week.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 10:15 pm
By: ECU News Services
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In 2010 the North Carolina State Board of Education unanimously adopted national Common Core Standards (CCS) in English and mathematics.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 9:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Speaker Ban After 50 Years -- The legislature at its Worst? That's the headline slapped on top of the latest missive from Rob Christensen, McClatchy-Raleigh's "Mr. Politics."
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 9:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Two Beaufort County residents, Owen Chrisman and Tucker Davis, played on the 2012-2013 Jr. Pirate Hockey travel team that recently made it to the CHL finals in Wilmington, NC.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 1:56 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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The state House Thursday gave its final approval to a Good Samaritan law, a change in state law that would provide limited immunity from prosecution for people who summon medical help for a person who overdoses on drugs.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 1:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor McCrory announced the following direct appointments.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 1:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Several Washington High School seniors attended a College Round-Up event at Edgecombe Community College on Saturday, March 9, with Foreign Language teacher Phedora Johnson and English teacher Renee Basnight.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 8:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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After receiving several pieces of mail addressed to four different persons at his home address on Sherron Road, and seeing strange people checking mailboxes on his street, a Durham resident concluded someone was using his mailbox in a tax-fraud scheme.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As one of the lucky souls blessed to be "represented" by Miss Harnett County, I've had a feeling she's developed some political ambitions. It's been pretty clear that SOMETHING is up.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 7:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. Joseph Louis "J. L." Woolard, age 78, a resident of 1634 Terrapin Track Road, Washington died Thursday, March 28, 2013 at his home.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 7:36 am
By: Announcements
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Richard Ottis Waddell, 79, a resident of Wintergreen, Ariz., Chesapeake, Va., and formerly of Bath, N.C., died March 27, 2013.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 7:31 am
By: Announcements
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Lovie Beard Shelton of Washington, one of the first nurse-midwives to practice in North Carolina, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday morning, March 29th, 2013.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 7:26 am
By: Announcements
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Public school leaders from Beaufort, Hyde, Tyrrell and Washington counties met recently at Beaufort County Community College to talk about ways the college can better serve their students.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 12:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Blue Ridge Mountains have remained an iconic natural trait of North Carolina. The most prominent and the highest point on the mountain range is Grandfather Mountain, peaking at 5,964 feet.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 11:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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William Midyette was arrested and charged with Three Counts of Manufacture/Sell/Deliver/Possess a Controlled Substance Within 1,000 Feet of a School.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 3:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Maybe more so than any other novelist below the Mason-Dixon line, including the 19th-century William Gilmore Simms of South Carolina, Inglis Fletcher of North Carolina painted the most comprehensive, historical portrait of the land on which she lived.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 1:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mrs. Hattie Brown Moore 88, of 43 Normandy, Apt 1, Dorchester, Mass., and formerly of Washington, died Monday, March 18, 2013, at Beth Israel Medical Center, Boston.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 1:07 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Jessie Hill Holliday, of 1014 Cox Boulevard, Washington, died Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 1:01 pm
By: Announcements
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I take this opportunity to express my thanks to all of the many people who have worked the last two years to help us promote the agenda of the Republican Party and to bring you up to date on some of the recent history of our County party.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 12:44 pm
By: Buzz Cayton
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Leigh Stanley, John C. Tayloe School’s music teacher, rehearses with third graders for the upcoming Steppin Out 2013.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 12:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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My name is Victoria Wakefield, I am 21, Hispanic, and conservative.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 11:32 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Vidant Medical Center has applied to the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for the prestigious designation of Magnet.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 9:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Pat McCrory signed the following bills into law.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 9:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's absolutely refreshing to hear an elected official championing the supremacy of the free market over the iron-fist of the bureaucracy.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 4:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A national database created to collect and track confidential personal information from public school students from kindergarten through high school is drawing fire from parents and privacy experts.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 12:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On March 6, 2013, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office received a report in reference to an attempted fraud.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 9:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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