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Commented on An update from the frontThis is an excellent and timely report from Nick Fritz. Washington and Beaufort County truly stand at the threshold of long-term success—if we can align around the right leadership and a shared vision.
I strongly believe in synergism. If our City Council, County Commission, and Economic Development Commission could work in concert rather than in silos, we could make meaningful progress for both the city and the county. Consider the assets already in place: within a 30-mile radius of Washington, there are approximately twenty-five boat builders. Our airport was once positioned to become a drone development center for the East Coast—what happened to that opportunity? With our waterfront, natural beauty, and quality of life, Washington should be an attractive bedroom community for Greenville. So what is the primary obstacle? In my view, it is our school system. Private and charter schools can play a role, but the real need is a return to strong, efficient public schools—strategically loca
Commented: Friday, January 2nd, 2026 @ 10:09 am
By: Buzz Cayton
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Makes me wonder what Nick Brown has to hide that could come back on him.
Commented: Friday, January 2nd, 2026 @ 8:22 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Commented on Some Refreshing Change at School Board MeetingsNew Member Introduction Happy to Join the Community
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The lawless Biden regime was covering up a lot in this case. Their "woke" DEI agenda could not handle transgender violence, so they wanted to make it go away. Now, we also know there was a racial angle to the whole thing, too.
Commented: Thursday, January 1st, 2026 @ 2:56 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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JV: Other than being on the Executive Committee, I have never been an officer.
I have turned down the Chairmanship, on occasion, because I am not called to do such, plus, I have often been an elected public official, and I contend ... Political officers and elected public officials should remain separate.
Commented: Thursday, January 1st, 2026 @ 2:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on An update from the frontThat "world class private school" sounds interesting. Competition in education helps improve the quality of all providers. I would assume whoever is behind it would build and equip it and the city would be involved to help promote it. The new state Opportunity Scholarships passed by Republicans in the legislature should mostly pay for its operating costs.
The curves thrown to our new city government by the outgoing regime have been nasty, but the new team has rolled with the punches. Bobby Roberson was a great city manager previously and he should be of great help in getting things straightened out. It would be great if he wanted to stay on as manager. He is a huge improvement over Russell.
Commented: Thursday, January 1st, 2026 @ 2:43 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Commented on An update from the frontIt appears a coup has quickly been accomplished by: the DeepState or "The Staff"(whoever THAT is),who shall b nameless like Voldemort,whose name must not b spoken!
Will th new council as the last,now become lik rubberstamps, will council meetings continue 2b choreographed, complete w C.M. written motions presented to th council to *dumbly READ at th appropriate time,so council only has to motion, yea or nay? Council has authority over far more than those 3 job positions! The key statute is G.S. 160A‑146, & it is extremely broad: “The council may create,change,abolish,& consolidate offices, positions, depts…& generally organize & reorganize th city govt…” This is not limited to th manager, attorney, or clerk. It applies to any office or position th city creates,including: PublicWorks,Planning,Finance,Police,Utilities, Parks&Rec. Any Admin/Dept position. Council has power to create,eliminate,restructure,reassign these positions This authority exists even w/out a MANAGER! G.S. 160A‑146
Commented: Thursday, January 1st, 2026 @ 2:07 pm
By: Befuddled
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Commented on An update from the frontIt is great to have a city council that is working for the citizens and taxpayers instead of for the greedy special interest who were looting the city, and when it comes to looting the city, we need to get that money back from the former manager.
Commented: Thursday, January 1st, 2026 @ 2:05 pm
By: Bubba
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Commented on An update from the frontNick, thank you for the report and for all your and your team's hard work. I guess bitter ambushes from the losers is to be expected.
What the former ruling clique did to stonewall that audit information raises a lot of red flags. The city manager was responsible for seeing that this information was properly transmitted but he failed to do that. Why? Is there something stinky he was covering up? Does it have anything to do with why he beat a hasty retreat and resigned after his cronies were ousted from power? Did that excessive and grossly improper payoff to him when he left have anything to do with info he might know on the former ruling clique? I hope that anything criminal that may be found will be prosecuted instead of swept under the rug. Our taxpayers are still reeling from what the losers did to out city and our taxes. Finally, great choice on Roberson!
Commented: Thursday, January 1st, 2026 @ 12:29 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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Commented on An update from the frontFritz mentioned a couple of things that grabbed my attention:
1. Building Schools The CITY is going to build new schools? I would think that would be a County endeavor; Are we going back to a "Washington City Schools" scenario? People don't want another Washington Montessori or Terra Ceia Christian School; they want community charter schools, like BGCS, throughout the County so they DON'T have to come all the way to Washington. 2. Bringing in land developers There has been a noticable population decrease since 2020. People are either dying or leaving the County due to sub-par education, insane real estate prices (controlled by the school board), lack of industry and idiotic politics. Houses aren't flying off the market...unless you're a rich Yankee moving down here to retire in what's become known as a "Death Community". I'm not understanding the "glitter appeal" of living in overpriced homes stacked on top of each other. 3. The New Mayor TBA...
Commented: Thursday, January 1st, 2026 @ 11:44 am
By: John Valley
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These major indiscretions within the Beaufort County Republican Party are the harvest of years of party officers using their positions dishonestly and overstepping their powers for their own advantage. That we have people capable of such corruption is hard to believe. The fact that we have people among us that are OK with this level of corruption is disgusting. Beaufort County is a red county. Our organized local Republican Party is a disgrace to the good people of this county. Clean this crooked mess up. Good people have had enough.
Commented: Thursday, January 1st, 2026 @ 12:01 pm
By: Van Zant
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Commented on An update from the frontGood to see our council hard at work. Bobby Roberson is a great choice for interim. He knows our city and its government very well. Tyre, who does not even really live in the city, is a phony and nothing but a bitter trouble maker, still butt hurt our his political machine losing control.
What about that outrageous payola to the former city manager of $140,000 of taxpayer money? That needs to be clawed back.
Commented: Thursday, January 1st, 2026 @ 10:07 am
By: John Steed
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JV: There is so much mendacity afoot, and too many Republicans are caught up in this public lie, the foothills of this mountain of Fraud that destroyed this democratic process of that election, and they should have known better.
NO, the Vegetable President did NOT win the election of 2020. We know that now, with what the Non Patriot Left did to cover up their nefarious trail under the corrupt practices of the Deep State, the corrupt Democratic Socialist Party, and their corrupt Judiciary, pieces and parts, along with the propagandistic help of the Democratic Socialists Media, Orwellian in Scope ... All under the cover of the manufactured, but very real Covid, along with those "necessary" 40 million plus absentee ballots floating about willy nilly, employed to cheat their parts of this election Fraud of 2020, when needed, as we are now finally discovering in Fulton County, Georgia, the home county of the corrupt Democratic Socialist prosecutor, Fani Willis. This Constitutional Republic will not continue to exist if the Deep State, the corrupt Democratic Socialist Party, and their corrupt Judiciary participants, and most importantly, their Democratic Socialists Propagandistic Media is not STOPPED, and stopped quickly. The Republicans involved in this public mendacity must be found out, and dealt with similarly.
Commented: Thursday, January 1st, 2026 @ 7:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Thank-you John for your concurrence.
Commented: Thursday, January 1st, 2026 @ 7:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I second the "Stan Deatherage Declaration" and also agree that it is, in fact, inarguable to the common sense thinker.
There IS a conspiracy, within the County GOP, to usurp and abuse positions of power through complete disregard, or "misinterpretation", of SOPs that should be common knowledge. Something ain't right and the Black Hats are trying to leave Dodge....with our money!
Commented: Wednesday, December 31st, 2025 @ 3:54 pm
By: John Valley
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The GOP is eating itself alive and MAGA ain't quite got the horsepower it used to have; I hate to say it but it's an undeniable truth. People aren't as clueless as they were in 2016.
Current "MAGA" Republicans, those who hotdogged it through the "Election Integrity" farce and played along with the "BIDEN is a legitimate President" script, are in a very tight spot with the remaining voters come primary time. The "old guard" mentality of conducting conservative political strategy has led to several disastrous high profile fumbles that ended campaigns overnight. The turd that Robinson started never stopped rolling downhill; they wanted you to forget it was there. There has to be a "come to Jesus" but the odds of that happening look slim at the present. They would rather go down with the ship than face intelligent public questioning. I wouldn't be surprised if one of them was to get on TV and sound completely cookoo for CoCo Puffs....something that makes absolutely no sense.
Commented: Wednesday, December 31st, 2025 @ 3:45 pm
By: John Valley
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Interesting! So Phil Berger is now trying to manipulate TWO local races against people on his enemies list. He recruited Asa Buck to try to defeat Bobby Hanig in our congressional race and he sent Jimmy Dixon down here to recruit Darren Armstrong to try to defeat Keith Kidwell in the state house race. It is time to send Berger AND the Berger Boys packing. Berger is pushing a state budget that would raise our taxes. Hanig and Kidwell have been staunch opponents of higher taxes and of Berger's tax increase budget.
Commented: Wednesday, December 31st, 2025 @ 9:06 am
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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This makes you wonder if Buckhout's health problems were of the mental health variety. Did voices in her head tell her Trump gave her a shout out when he clearly did not?
Commented: Wednesday, December 31st, 2025 @ 8:07 am
By: Bubba
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I am a voting member of the Republican Executive Committee, although I do not take an active role since I am in a Republican primary; however, I will make this one comment, which is 100% true: The Beaufort County Republican Party does NOT fully respect their Plan of Organization, nor do they apply the Republican Party Platform when it comes to dealing with Non Republican behavior by certain protected members, and have NOT done so for longer than a decade.
This Stan Deatherage declaration is inarguable.
Commented: Wednesday, December 31st, 2025 @ 5:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Clearly, some of the party leaders do not abide by the plan of organization and operate by pushing their own personal agendas using the party as their platform. These party officers have disrespected the committee as a whole and have gone rogue - so far with no consequences. These atrocities must be addressed if the Beaufort County Republican Party is to retain any credibility. This is corrupt behavior. The violators need to answer for their crimes and receive punishment for their violations of trust.
Truely, there are major issues with abuse of power, maturity, ethics, fair play good sense, and a community mission within the confines of the party. And let's not forget outright dishonest hatefulness, oftentimes directed toward a long and growing list of native conservatives. At this time the Beaufort County Republican party is an embarrassment. If good people on the committee do not find a way to address this monstrosity, this local institution should be shunned by honest people forever. If it comes to that, look at the harm done to the people of Beaufort County. It's bad enough now. It is imperative that confidence be restored for the good of Beaufort County. Isn't that what we all should be working for? Obviously, some of the people involved are not in it for the right reasons. Such people must not be allowed to hold power without the rights to that power. In fact, no one has the right to usurp power.
Commented: Tuesday, December 30th, 2025 @ 4:34 pm
By: Van Zant
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I am sorry, but why do we need Buckhout? She fairly recently carpetbagged into the district, and had not been involved locally until she decided to run for Congress. The others are all either natives or longtime residents who have paid their dues locally.
Bobby Hanig has served as a Currituck County Commissioner, county commission chairman, state representative, and state senator. Asa Buck has been Carteret County sheriff for many years. Eric Rouse is a multi-term Lenoir County Commissioner.
Commented: Tuesday, December 30th, 2025 @ 10:07 am
By: Rino Hunter
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There is some serious sleaze all over the place. Some folks have no tolerance for some of it but have a high tolerance for the other of it. As for me, sleaze is sleaze.
I'll not be sacrificing any of my local representatives for any of these high and mighty state reps.
Commented: Tuesday, December 30th, 2025 @ 9:11 am
By: Van Zant
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This smells a lot like Buckhout's old campaign team needing a job. They first got her to contact the most recently filed major candidate to try to get them jobs there. Hanig and Rouse and been in the race longer and were less likely prospects as they would already have staffs. When that did not work, they talked her back into the race herself so they would have jobs.
Commented: Monday, December 29th, 2025 @ 8:26 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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