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Community-Based Grants Initiative Launches January 26, 2021 in Western Prosperity Zone

The Golden LEAF Community-Based Grants Initiative (CBGI) will launch in the Western Prosperity Zone on January 26, 2021 at 2 p.m. with a virtual information session. Organizations serving one or more of the counties in the Western Prosperity Zone are eligible to apply. The Western Prosperity Zone includes: Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, and Transylvania.

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Collaborative Partnership Provides Workforce Solutions in High-Demand Trades

A vacant energy plant and warehouse in an underserved community with high unemployment has found new life thanks to collaboration from local leaders. The result — a workforce development center offering training in high-demand trades — has the City of New Bern, Craven Community College, Craven County, and local businesses excited about the future of the Volt Center.

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Two-Year Golden Leaf Scholarships To Attend NC’s Community Colleges Help Build the Rural Workforce

Since establishing the scholarship program in 2000, the Golden LEAF Foundation has provided scholarships to help more than 17,000 rural students attend the state's community colleges to earn degrees and credentials that will lead to employment. The Golden LEAF Scholarship Program is one component to support the mission of Golden LEAF to help build the rural workforce.

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Golden Leaf Scholarship Alumni Spotlight: Abby Warren

Meet Golden LEAF Scholarship Alumnae Abby Warren. She is a graduate of East Carolina University and a native of Edgecombe County. Warren is currently attending ECU School of Dental Medicine. She plans to live and work in a rural area once she completes dental school.

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Beaufort County Emergency Management: COVID-19 Update (1-14-20) Local News & Expression Commissioners To Tour Pamlico Yachtworks


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Eleven of twelve speakers and a packed house backed the Sanctuary City for the Unborn resolution. It was pulled from the agenda on a false legal claim by Republican Max Perreault.
At the next Beaufort County Commissioners general meeting, August 3, 2026, I will present two resolutions of great merit for consideration by these very same commissioners that are elected to lead Beaufort County's government.
Queen Garris has made a post on the Beaufort County GOP site that you should read. It is disloyal to conservative candiates key in the following: https://www.Facebook.Com/beaufortcountygop
Six students completed Beaufort County Community College's Medical Assistant program Tuesday, and each has already accepted a job offer from the clinical site where they trained.
Our office continues to monitor the potential for severe storms and periods of heavy rain between Wednesday and Saturday. Today’s forecast updates shifted some of the early precipitation north and west of our area, which resulted in minor changes to the timing of our expected rainfall
Pursuant to an order of Councilmember Tyre and Councilmember Horton, you are hereby notified that there will be a special meeting of the Washington City Council on Thursday, July 23, 2026, at 3:00pm in the Council Chambers.
Our office is monitoring the potential for severe storms and periods of heavy rain between Wednesday and Saturday. Please see below for Beaufort County's forecast details.
On July 6, 2026, Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office along with members of the NC SBI Criminal Apprehension Team located and apprehended 39-year-old Leslie Michael Kitchengs in the Long Acre Area.
There are many people who overlook the brilliance of the US Constitution. They argue that it is outdated and unfit to adequately govern such a modern nation as ours in the 21st century.

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If you've ever traveled abroad you are asked this often. It's as if you are given an opportunity to "come clean" and "lay it all out on the table."
False teacher and second-term Councilmember Antwan Horton led another coalition with Pretend Republican Max Perreault (MR. 23% TAX MAN*) against the Nuclear Family Month proclamation, letting the motion fail. 
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2026 @ 10:45 pm By: Joe Davis
Plan could return up to $4 million to Washington taxpayers; Davis urges residents to attend and speak Monday, June 8
The impressions of our youth are indelibly branded in our hearts and minds. As I think of June 6, 1944 (D Day) it always seems that it was my war. I was nine years old.
It was discreetly referred to as Operation Overlord - the final push into Fortress Europe through the inflexible sea wall, built by the Nazi overlords, just a spare few miles from the free shores of Great Britain, where the entire United States Expeditionary Force was stationed.
Every year on June 6, our nation pauses to remember the thousands of brave Americans and American allies who stormed the beaches of Normandy to launch the campaign to liberate Europe from the oppression and extermination by the Nazi regime in World War II.
Please click on the link to access the agenda for the Monday, June 8, 2026 City Council meeting.
I am introducing a Resolution at Washington City Council to declare June 2026 as Nuclear Family Month in our city.  
Published: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026 @ 9:00 am By: Joe Davis
In 1920, the American Legion adopted the red poppy as the symbol of remembrance of those who gave their lives in war.

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We cherish too, the Poppy red that grows on fields where valor led, it seems to signal to the skies that blood of heroes never dies.
This effort in exposition begins the noble experiment of many years of understanding this land, deep within the Chocowinity Bay /Pamlico River watershed, its essence in totality, and, ultimately, the planning of that benefit to the collective will of humankind.
WASHINGTON, N.C. — Ten students have successfully completed the Paramedic program at Beaufort County Community College (BCCC).
On Monday, April 13, 2026, the Beaufort County Grand Jury returned a True Bill of Indictment against 24-year-old Brady O’Neil Daniels of Wallace, NC, charging him with the murder of Billy Joe Bell in 2023.
Please click on the link to access the agenda for the Monday, April 13, 2026 City Council meeting.
For most of her life, Zofia Cheeseman built her life and schedule around being a gymnast until a health scare forced her to look at her life off the mat.
On Tuesday, April 7, 2026, Deputies with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call in a wooded area near Pamlico Plantation in Washington NC.
Small cities rarely make headlines. Their struggles - fiscal mismanagement, leadership vacuums, the slow erosion of public trust - play out in school gymnasiums and wood-paneled council chambers, witnessed by a handful of residents and largely ignored by the world outside.

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