Eastern North Carolina traffic planners are in the process of deciding whether to add tolls to ferries that operate up and down the coast, or to divert money for their eventual replacements from the money allocated in their divisional highway budget.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 6:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina maintains one of the nation's most restrictive versions of the Map Act, which can freeze property development within proposed road corridors for years. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report documents one Forsyth County case in which Map Act restrictions have limited private...
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 2:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A meeting of the Washington City Council will meet, Monday, March 17, 2014, at 5:30 pm, to discuss a number of actions listed here within.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 1:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County Community College faculty, students and staff and members of the public helped the college collect almost 70 pints of blood during the spring visit of the American Red Cross Bloodmobile to the community college campus, exceeding its goal.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 11:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again," wrote the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes. "There is nothing new under the sun." More than two millennia later, Karl Marx, wrote that history repeated itself "the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 10:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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How the Map Act threatens NC property owners: The North Carolina Map Act virtually freezes property development within proposed road corridors by blocking building permit and subdivision applications for up to three years.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 10:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Once again, the people of North Carolina are getting stuck with the check by a corporate welfare recipient.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 10:04 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Pirates of all ages are encouraged to bring their dancing shoes to shag the night away, partake of the food and grog, mingle with pirates, try to find their sea legs in the bounce-houses, and more!
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 8:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Skeptics of the Medicaid reform plan announced in February by the McCrory administration are wary of using a relatively untested framework of what are known as accountable care organizations to administer and deliver Medicaid services.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 6:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is not clear just how it is that our Representatives and Senators manage to come up with all the ideas they seem to come up with for all new laws they seem to think of.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 6:49 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Vidant Health, officially known as University Health Systems, is no stranger to closing rural medical facilities. Since 2010 Vidant Health has closed three medical clinics in the following counties: Dare, Pitt and Beaufort.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 6:47 am
By: Betty Murphy
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On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Bill, a loving husband and father went home to rejoice with his heavenly father and the many friends and family that preceded him.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 6:22 am
By: Announcements
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Ms. Dolores Jean Stevens, age 89, a resident of 255 Smaw Road, Washington, died Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at Ridgewood Manor Nursing Home.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 6:17 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Johnnie Merrion Clark, age 84, a former resident of Frederick Road, Chocowinity, died Monday, March 10, 2014 at River Trace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Washington.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 6:14 am
By: Announcements
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Larry was born in Auburn, NY on April 7, 1931 to Paul and Blanche Colwell.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 5:55 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Delores Robinson Satchell, 70, of 34 Parker Lane, Aurora, died Sunday, March 9, 2014.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 5:48 am
By: Announcements
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Janet D. Holdren-Bowles, age 56, of 125 S. Robin Lane in Bath, NC died Friday, March 7, 2014 at her residence.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 5:41 am
By: Announcements
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Guy Roosevelt Davis, age 92, a resident of NC Hwy 32 N, Plymouth, NC, passed away Saturday, March 8, 2014 at his home.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 5:35 am
By: Announcements
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Ms. Annie Mariah Peterson, 82, a resident of 330 George St., Belhaven, died Monday, March 10, 2014.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 5:34 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. James Paul Allen, age 72, a resident of Pantego, NC died Saturday March 8, 2014 at his home.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 5:28 am
By: Announcements
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Former North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt Jr. will be among those in attendance Tuesday, March 11 at 5:30 p.m. when a renovated gallery and study space in Joyner Library is dedicated to honor East Carolina University alumna Janice Hardison Faulkner.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 4:58 am
By: ECU News Services
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Ms. Mary Payne Fowle, age 85, a resident of the Waterford Place Apartments in Washington, died March 9, 2014 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 4:41 am
By: Announcements
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Ann Elizabeth Chaffin Wall, of 264 Mill Creek Lane, Bath, NC, died peacefully in her sleep on February 26, 2014, at Duke Raleigh Hospital in Raleigh, NC, following a two-year struggle with lung cancer.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 4:28 am
By: Announcements
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