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Washingtonian: The shit is rolling downhill and fast, ain't it? This is just one of many instances but, as seen in Martin County last week, parents are getting extremely pissed off about school consolidation. While the Martin County School board openly admitted to students leaving their mainstream public schools in droves, they "forgot" to mention the influx of students being enrolled in BGCS...the competition. I see a pattern here.

Though Beaufort County has yet to openly admit what most already know: we are becoming a Sanctuary School System which is why students are going elsewhere outside of the County. Washington Montessori isn't keeping people here either. Bath Elementary and Chocowinity Primary are the only bastions of hope left BUT they can't hold out forever....unless they think ahead.

Forcing everyone into the Cities so the Countryside can be "developed" and pillaged isn't going to go over well. BOCO is being setup for Carpetbaggers and hook-noses...

I see a pattern

Commented: Sunday, May 24th, 2026 @ 10:50 am By: John Valley

Georgia voters need to turn out to Dump Dooley the Dork the same way they turned out to dump Cassidy the Conman in Louisiana.

Commented: Sunday, May 24th, 2026 @ 12:46 pm By: borderhawk

Bubba, not 4...5!
Tandy Dunn voted to hire the part-time city manager, tho this time, Booth didnt.

Our elected officials, are members of the bureaucratic machine.
You know this when u see an employee talking smack to a sitting Commissioner (Hood).

Commented: Saturday, May 23rd, 2026 @ 12:29 pm By: Washingtonian

Don’t worry. Just look at the super brilliance that we have on our City, County and School boards. We can count on higher taxes, more misplaced spending, Schools that are turning out students that cannot sign their name, read a ruler and rate 30% at reading level and a hospital that does not do MRI’s on Saturday (Don’t have an accident on the weekend) and you can lie in the hall for up to 8 hours to see a doctor or get a bed (I did). While 18 miles away there is a town that is running over with industry and growth. We should be the bedroom community for Greenville if we had a school system. And what happened to the 30-mil spent at the airport to make us the Drone Development center for the East Coast? Guess I’m getting too old to keep up with all this stuff.

Commented: Friday, May 22nd, 2026 @ 5:26 pm By: Buzz Cayton

Here's another one/ The Attorney General of North Carolina is paid $168K. Should we pay a Beaufort County manager tens of thousands of dollars MORE than that? The AG has to have a LAW degree which is a higher degree than a pathetic Masters of Public administration.

Commented: Friday, May 22nd, 2026 @ 3:53 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

For Randy Walker and Frankie Waters, they are both really still Democrats, and liberal ones at that. You can easily see it in the way they vote on the county commission. This is just the latest example. They are as phony as a three peso bill. Frankie Waters is not running again and will soon be gone, thank God, but we need to give Walker his walking papers in the 2028 primary. He is a FAKE "Republican" and always has been. Whether one calls him a RINO, a Biden Republican, an Undocumented Democrat, or a Benedict Arnold Republican, he is a back stabber and a traitor. He has betrayed the voters of Beaufort County by voting to keep the crooked limited voting scam.

Commented: Friday, May 22nd, 2026 @ 3:15 pm By: Rino Hunter

This dude will make more than a US Senator ($178K) and almost as much as the NC Governor ($203K). Is a county manager in little ole Beaufort County worth that much??

Commented: Thursday, May 21st, 2026 @ 5:34 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Tim Corley was hired to be the new county manager of Beaufort County. The commissioners voted 4 to 3 to hire Corley, a former deputy county manager in neighboring Pitt County.
Corley starts June 1, 2026.
The three commissioners that voted against Corley were Hood Richardson, Stan Deatherage and Ed Booth.
The opposing commissioners had no issues with the new hire’s qualifications but had an issue with Corley’s insistence he would remain living in Pitt County and not move to Beaufort County.
Corley said his travel time to his job was probably closer than the commissioners who had an issue with his living arrangement.
Booth questioned Corley’s investment in Beaufort County. Referencing it may be as little as occasionally buying his lunch in the county.
Corley also said he operates other businesses he was goin to hang on to because of the income it brings in and he wasn’t going to give up the lifestyle the money helped provide.

Copied from Facebook post, I will continue in post 2.

Commented: Thursday, May 21st, 2026 @ 1:48 pm By: Washingtonian

Why Stan? Because the world is full of angry people. From the left to the right, NO ONE SEES US! We are just bank accts to the users/takers.

Angry people need someone to blame, and some to hate. Its happening even right here in Washington. Bad Govts lead to more anger.
Here in Washington, if they are not corrupt, then they are incompetent. Both lead down the same path.

By the way, Chairman Waters, u say u dont want to lock up a one-time drug dealer. Just think this, if u had locked him up, then I say his younger brother would not have picked up the same criminal life. Think MORE about the innocent in all of this!! Dont let your compassion for a drug dealer, open the door to causing another good kid to go bad.

Commented: Thursday, May 21st, 2026 @ 10:15 am By: Washingtonian

Drug dealers should get the death penalty, because they r murderers of our children, whole families, whole neighborhoods,& all hope. Some liberals try to argue that it is a victimless crime. They argue tht th drug user chooses to buy drugs of hs own accord. Well let me tell u Commissioners, th drug dealers operate just like advertisers on TV. They PUSH their product on the mentally damaged users. Yep, they dont wait for the user to call for th drug, they will actually market to th user. They call & say to th addict using their best salesman's voice: Hey man I've got some Good stuff! You'll like it, its GOOD! I'll even give u a taste 4 free because I'm yur friend. Call me b4 its all gone. Or, they will act to get an naive person addicted by givin them free hits until he's fully addicted. So its in this way that it is NOT a victimless crime. That's why they call them drug-pusher. Wake up Chairman Waters! We all know that regardless, th accused always seem to get a plea deal, as Hood sd.

Commented: Wednesday, May 20th, 2026 @ 1:58 pm By: Washingtonian

Taxpayers need to show up at both the city and county hearings on the budget / taxes. On the city council, we have two who promised us, and they need to be held to their promises. Did Brabo ever make a promise? On the county commission, we have three who vote for the taxpayers and four who have nothing but contempt for taxpayers - Rliberal RINOs andy Walker and Frankie Waters, and the two Democrats

What was done to take Nick Fritz off the board should shock the community to turn deciseviely against those responsible..

Commented: Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 @ 1:55 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer