Mrs. Eva Mae Mackey Alam, of 2814 Arlington Ave., Apt B, Fayetteville, and formerly of Hyde County, died Tuesday March 4, 2014, at her home.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 11:57 pm
By: Announcements
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Governor McCrory has signed a State of Emergency declaration and waived weight and hours of service restrictions on truck drivers to expedite response to today's winter storm. The storm has impacted much of central North Carolina.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 11:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. Lowell Minton Rhodes, age 78, a resident of River Trace Nursing Home Washington, NC, passed away on Tuesday, March 4, 2014, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 11:00 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Daniel Earle Moody, age 82, a resident of 90 Robin Road, Grimesland, NC, died Thursday, March 6, 2014 at Cherry Point Bay Nursing Center in Havelock, NC.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 10:55 pm
By: Announcements
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Haywood County commissioners and area municipal officials are hoping a proposed 50-percent increase in the region's occupancy tax will help them build capital projects and spur area tourism. But they face opposition from one of the region's legislators, and that could scotch the tax hike...
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 10:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since 2008, Kay Hagan has sung the praises of Barry Obama’s full-frontal assault on the American people and the health care industry. She bragged about being on committees that helped write the bill.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 10:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 7:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Vidant Medical Center will be working with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University to sponsor a free kidney screening for the Greenville area.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 6:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Thom Tillis, conservative candidate for United States Senate and North Carolina House Speaker, today released his campaign's second television commercial.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 4:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A meeting of the Washington City Council will meet, Monday, March 10, 2014, at 5:30 pm, to discuss a number of actions listed here within.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 2:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Enough with the hysteria, finger pointing and partisanship already. The Duke Energy coal ash spill needs immediate action, there’s blame enough to go around and we need to focus on fixing problems.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 2:51 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Last Friday, some 44,000 discouraged North Carolina workers suddenly disappeared... Relax. It's not as mysterious and tragic as it sounds. What happened was that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its long-awaited revision of five years of household-employment data for North Carolina...
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 2:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory has ordered all North Carolina state flags on state facilities to be lowered to half staff in honor of Senator Martin Nesbitt of Buncombe County, who passed this evening.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 1:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The latest in equipment and training for careers in advanced manufacturing will be on display to the public at Beaufort County Community College Tuesday, April 8, as part of Advanced Manufacturing Awareness Week.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 12:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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While the Catawba Indian Nation awaits a ruling from the U.S. Department of the Interior on acquiring land in Cleveland County to build a $340 million resort/casino, it is battling in South Carolina courts to create a similar gambling property on its border reservation in Rock Hill.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 12:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On December 12, 2013 the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a Breaking and Entering at a residence on Cherry Run Road in Washington.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 10:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Almost as much awaited as the yearly U.S. News & World Report college rankings is the annual Princeton Review ranking of the top "party schools." By Princeton Review's analysis, the top party school this year is (drumroll)...the University of Iowa. Congratulations, Hawkeyes. You beat out the Univers
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 2:34 am
By: John William Pope Center
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I've had my disagreements with Duke Energy, both historically and recently. But the company got a bum rap in a new story stumbling its way through media circles: that Duke Energy uses abusive tax loopholes to avoid paying its fair share of federal income taxes.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 1:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Bonita Manufacturing Products, Inc., doing business as Bonita Pioneer, is locating its North Carolina manufacturing operations in Rutherford County.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 1:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Year after year, challengers from both parties have come after incumbent Walter Jones with both barrels blazing. And year after year, Jones keeps going back for a new term in Congress.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 12:38 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Thank you to everyone who attended the final NC DOT Public Hearing in Ocracoke on Monday evening, 2/24/14.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 12:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The power of incumbency, gerrymandered election districts, and a growing national distaste for politics in general might be the causes of having voter ballots for the May 6 primary election showing more blanks than the responses to a pop quiz.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 12:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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