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Debora Lee "Cates" Zolty, age 58, daughter of William Ellis Cates, Jr. and his wife Brenda L. Cates, residents of Cypress Landing, died Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at Kindred Hospital Greensboro
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 @ 4:31 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Margaret Ester Elks Fisher, age 92, a resident of Washington, died Tuesday, November 3, 2014, at River Trace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 @ 4:24 pm
By: Announcements
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Stuart Aronson, 80, a resident of Grimesland, died Friday, Oct. 31, 2014 at Ridgewood Manor Nursing Home in Washington.
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 @ 4:12 pm
By: Announcements
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Midterm voter participation in North Carolina set a new record tonight. As of 10:34PM, 2,717,920 voters had cast ballots. In 2010, turnout was 2,700,393.
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 @ 1:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The election of 2014 will have widespread impacts. It will determine who will control the legislative branch, directly affect policy decisions (whether to repeal, replace, or renew earlier reforms), and set the stage of the 2016 election and beyond.
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 @ 1:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Eduardo Porter, who writes "The Economic Scene" for the New York Times, says our country's higher education system is in crisis and that he has a solution.
Published: Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 @ 9:20 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The handling of a $250,644 stimulus grant received by a company co-owned by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's husband has been referred to the state auditor by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources for "further legal review," according to documents obtained by Carolina Journal.
Published: Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 @ 4:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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: Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 @ 4:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Historian and civil rights activist Julian Bond will present the Lawrence F. Brewster Lecture in History at 7 p.m. Nov. 18 in Wright Auditorium at East Carolina University.
Published: Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 @ 3:18 pm
By: ECU News Services
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As an update on the recent discussions regarding the state community college system budget for 2015-2016, I received an email from a fellow community college president following the recent State Community College Board retreat. As expected, the state board revised the recommendations made by the...
Published: Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 @ 2:25 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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"Facts are stubborn things," future president John Adams said in court. The occasion for Adam's observation is noteworthy, because Adams had taken the highly unpopular, personally dangerous task of defending Captain Thomas Preston and eight British soldiers accused of shooting and killing five...
Published: Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 @ 12:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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More North Carolinians voted early and within fewer days than in any prior midterm election. This was the first general election held under a compacted 10-day one-stop early voting schedule.
Published: Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 @ 10:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory has appointed Eric C. Morgan as a Superior Court Judge in Forsyth County.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 11:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County Commissioner Candidate Keith Kidwell has thrown caution to the wind, thereby seeking my endorsement for county commissioner.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 7:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Education and health care are among the top campaign issues in House District 8, where Republican incumbent Susan Martin is seeking a second term against Democratic challenger Barbara D "Bobi" Gregory.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 7:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014, challenged East Carolina University students to celebrate their diversity – whatever that may be – and to be accepting of others.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 7:32 pm
By: ECU News Services
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You may not be crazy about either of the two major party nominees in the US Senate race. But there are FIVE OTHER OPTIONS beyond Tillis and Hagan. You have Libertarian Sean Haugh.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 7:26 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Education is the campaign focus as the North Carolina House District 118 race heads toward the finish line.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 6:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Testing conducted at the State Laboratory of Public Health, located in the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS), returned a preliminary negative result for Ebola in a patient at Duke University Hospital in Durham.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A monthly summary of events happening at Beaufort County Community College
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 5:43 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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For decades pundits have been debating whether people have a "right" to health care.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 5:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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From 2009 to 2013, the University of North Carolina system gradually increased its minimum admission standards. Students entering UNC schools this fall had to score at least 800 on combined math and verbal SAT tests to be admitted.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 5:08 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Lonnie "Mark" Tetterton, age 49, a resident of Clinton Ave., Washington, NC, passed away Sunday, November 2, 2014.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 4:29 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Delores Jean Sanderson Lamm, age 73, of 117 Jackson Street, Washington, passed peacefully from her earthly life to her heavenly home on Sunday, November 2, 2014.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 4:22 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Stuart Ronald Aronson, age 80, a resident of Grimesland died Friday October 31, 2014 at Ridgewood Manor Nursing Center of Washington.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 3:59 pm
By: Announcements
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The State Board of Elections today completed an audit of more than 10,000 registered voters with questionable citizenship status.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 2:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Tuesday, October, Monday, November 3, 2014 6, 2014
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 2:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Incumbent state House Rep. Nelson Dollar, R-Wake, faces a familiar challenger in this year's race for House District 36 — Raleigh Democrat Lisa Baker, who last ran against Dollar in 2012.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 2:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tomorrow is Election Day. I am ashamed of you and others like you who are so disrespectful of our Nation and its leaders to be elected IN PRIVATE.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 1:43 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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On October 21, 2014, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested Asa Renee Toler, age 41, of 302 Beach Lane in Washington, Allen Garfield Swanner Jr., age 25, of 6756 Clarks Neck Road in Washington and Ashley Renay Bond, age 25, of 5822 Dean Drive in Washington.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 5:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos announced today that Kendra Gerlach will join the DHHS leadership team as the director of the Office of Communications.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 1:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Republican Ken Smith says his campaign to oust Democratic incumbent Rep. William Brisson from the House District 22 seat in the General Assembly is nothing personal.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 1:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am listening to the program on the eve after Skip Waters' untimely and sudden death. It has brought tears to my eyes even though I never met him personally. It is obvious how he touches Eastern NC since the early 50's.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 1:03 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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It may sound like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, but the words are coming out of Speaker Thom Tillis's mouth.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 12:48 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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