The Marion L. Shepard Cancer Center offers a variety of special programs and activities to help cancer patients, survivors as well as their primary caregivers deal with the emotional and physical challenges associated with having cancer.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 11:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. George Taylor Tyer, age 79, a resident of 2153 Herring Run Road, Blounts Creek, NC died Sunday, March 30, 2014.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 9:09 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Ada Mae Mercer Dixon, age 91, a resident of 1275 Langley Road, Chocowinity, NC and a former resident of South Creek, Aurora died Sunday March 30, 2014 at Vidant Inpatient Hospice of Greenville.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 9:05 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Edward Lee Stotesbury, age 79, of 8289 Railroad Bed Road, Pantego N.C. died March 31, 2014 at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville N.C.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 8:48 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Steven "Steve" Wayne Tyson, age 54, a resident of Washington died Sunday March 30, 2014 at the home of his sister in Greenville.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 8:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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At an early March meeting in Charlotte of the N.C. Governor's Conference on Tourism, state Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker admitted that a 25-percent refundable tax credit for the film industry, scheduled to expire in January, may be in trouble.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 8:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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ue to the decrease in flu activity and viral respiratory illnesses, Vidant Health is lifting the temporary visitor restrictions for those 12 and younger that were put into place in January.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 8:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The philosophy department at the University of Colorado at Boulder is in hot water. CU-Boulder's administration replaced the department chair, suspended graduate admissions for a year, and sent everyone to sensitivity training. What caused such draconian punishment?
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 5:32 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In a memo sent earlier today, Governor Pat McCrory asked all state government leaders to slow spending in order to protect the state's strong financial position.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 5:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina is little more than a month away from the primary elections that will set the stage for another round of high-profile electoral battles in November. As voters prepare to head to the polls, the N.C. FreeEnterprise Foundation is watching the state's most important electoral contests...
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 4:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The latest in equipment and training for careers in advanced manufacturing will be on display at Beaufort County Community College as part of a week-long schedule of activities Monday, April 7, through Friday, April 11 during N.C. Advanced Manufacturing Awareness Week.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 4:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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"The Psychology of Human-Dog Interactions," "Global Heavy Metal Music" and "Extreme Physics," are just a few of the seminar courses offered this semester to students in the Honors College at East Carolina University. If they sound out of the ordinary, there's a good reason.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 10:54 am
By: ECU News Services
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"North Carolina has proven time and time again that it can attract and retain global companies like Continental AG,"
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 9:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Story of America contributors Eric Byler and Annabel Park are diligently preparing a documentary pursuant to Vidant's closing of Pungo District Hospital, and we have their first two installments here.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 9:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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"Gloom, despair, and agony on me," sang the corn-pone troubadours of "Hee Haw," TV's long-running variety show. "Deep, dark depression, excessive misery. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. Gloom, despair, and agony on me."
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 9:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I suppose it's a good thing that several years ago we decided on a not-for-profit company (now Vidant) to take over the Washington Hospital and subsequently seemingly everything else "medical" in the County.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 9:22 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Who IS Alex Bradshaw? Politicos from Murphy to Manteo are asking this question.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 9:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Patrick Woodie, the Acting President for the North Carolina Rural Center, is seeking input from county leaders.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 10:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Speaking directly to our elected officials is a privilege that citizens often take for granted.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 10:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This article is Part I of a two-part series examining how North Carolina's public school system pays its teachers.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 3:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory was in Charlotte today to celebrate the opening of MetLife's new U.S. retail headquarters alongside senior officials from the company. Located in Ballantyne, the new facility will house the majority of the company's U.S. retail employees.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 3:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Some members of local school boards are questioning the decision by the state school boards association to join a legal battle over vouchers for students from lower-income families. They also question whether the organization should be using membership dues, which come from local tax dollars, to...
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 12:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This morning at 9 a.m. the leadership of Vidant Health, the NC Conference of Branches of the NAACP, and the NAACP Branches in Hyde and Beaufort Counties are pleased to announce that they have worked out an agreement to keep Vidant Pungo Hospital open.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 12:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We got hit with headlines this week suggesting that roadwork across the state could grind to a halt very soon -- thanks to the Federal Highway Trust Fund running out of money
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 12:37 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Paul Gottfried's recent Pope Center essay The Academy Now and Then raises important issues regarding whether today's campus permits the expression of unpopular ideas. He argues that campus life was far more open when he began his academic career in the 1960s than it is in today's PC-dominated world.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 10:29 am
By: John William Pope Center
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This morning at 9 a.m. the leadership of Vidant Health, the NC Conference of Branches of the NAACP, and the NAACP Branches in Hyde and Beaufort Counties are pleased to announce that they have worked out an agreement to keep Vidant Pungo Hospital open.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 10:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The April 1st closing date for Vidant Pungo Hospital is rapidly approaching.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 10:20 am
By: Betty Murphy
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I am hearing a lot of chatter, actually criticism, about Beaufort County refusing to accept the $500,000 of so called "free money" offered to us by Vidant during the early stages of the closing of the Pungo District Hospital. Hyde County took the $250,000 offered to them.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 7:02 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Education for health care professionals in the 21st century must focus on teamwork and interdisciplinary training, individualized learning for students and patient-centered care. That was the message delivered by American Medical Association representatives visiting East Carolina University on...
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 6:42 am
By: ECU News Services
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today,
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 6:42 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Naomi Dail Austin, 90 of Aurora, North Carolina, passed away peacefully on March 27, 2014 with loved ones at her side.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 6:26 am
By: Announcements
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Republican County Commissioners Brinn, Deatherage, and Richardson have repeatedly attempted to protect the democratic rights of the citizens of Beaufort County by moving to require a referendum vote of the people.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 12:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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There's an old newsroom adage that if a dog bites a man, it's not news, but if a man bites a dog, it is. For those who don't understand this musty aphorism, it means that something being unusual greatly adds to its newsworthiness.
Published: Saturday, March 29th, 2014 @ 10:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Congressman Walter Jones takes action and relates it to his constituents through these press releases.
Published: Saturday, March 29th, 2014 @ 10:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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