
|
Harris Teeter started out as two independent grocery stores. In 1939, Willis L. Teeter and his brother Paul opened Teeters Food Mart in Mooresville with a $1,7000 loan.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, and people in eastern North Carolina are at high risk.
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 @ 2:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
First Lady Ann McCrory will light up the executive mansion in red tomorrow through the end of February to raise awareness for heart disease among women.
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 @ 6:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
East Carolina Endoscopy Center has achieved re-accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2014 @ 1:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
With just days remaining until the USDA's February 10 deadline, the backlog of FNS cases (food stamps) has dropped by 92.5 percent since January 23.
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2014 @ 10:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
North Carolina families are seeing the benefits of improving FNS (food stamp) numbers across the state as DHHS works collaboratively with our county partners to meet the USDA milestones for February 10.
Published: Thursday, February 6th, 2014 @ 1:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Flu activity and viral respiratory illnesses are widespread in our community.
Published: Thursday, February 6th, 2014 @ 12:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
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: Wednesday, February 5th, 2014 @ 11:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
State and county workers across North Carolina have reduced the backlog of FNS cases (food stamps) by just over 72 percent in the last 10 days, ensuring benefits for thousands of families.
Published: Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 @ 12:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Although born in Scotland in 1733, Samuel Johnston lived in North Carolina from infancy. Historians have described the native Scot as a "prominent voice for the Patriot cause" who possessed "Revolutionary zeal." Even so, many North Carolinians today are unaware of his illustrious political and legal
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 1:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Raised in Littleton, North Carolina, Ella Baker graduated valedictorian from Shaw University on 1927.
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 @ 1:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
This is an update on DHHS' most recent interaction with USDA.
Published: Sunday, January 26th, 2014 @ 11:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Vidant Health has been chosen to receive one of the nation’s most prestigious recognitions for performance in quality and safety.
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 10:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Flu activity and viral respiratory illnesses are widespread in our community.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2014 @ 10:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
On Tuesday, January 7, event organizers from the Darleen Flamingo 5K Run/Walk presented a gift of $18,000 to the Shepard Cancer Foundation board members, a benefactor of the proceeds from the event held on November 2, 2013.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 @ 2:42 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Before Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition landed on the Outer Banks in 1585, French and Spanish explorers traveled across modern-day North Carolina and led the European powers in claiming American land.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 9:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Salmon is best appreciated when sauteed in a buttery sauce of common herbs and served on a clean plate. If prepared properly everything else is secondary.
Published: Friday, January 10th, 2014 @ 4:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
John H. Baker served as North Carolina's first African American sheriff. He served in this office for twenty-four years.
Published: Sunday, January 5th, 2014 @ 6:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Due to increased flu activity, Vidant Health is holding a free flu clinic for anyone that may still need a flu shot. No appointment is necessary, but quantities are limited.
Published: Sunday, January 5th, 2014 @ 12:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Lake Phelps in Tyrrell County, first discovered about 1755, is located in the middle of the swampland known as "the Great Eastern Dismal," or the "Great Alligator Dismal."
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 @ 11:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Last week, doctors with the Brody School of Medicine and Vidant Medical Center teamed to perform a four-person kidney exchange at the hospital.
Published: Monday, December 30th, 2013 @ 11:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Sacred Heart Cathedral is the Mother Church for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, making it the spiritual center for Catholics in eastern North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, December 28th, 2013 @ 11:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
The craggy, ragged shoreline of Goose Creek State Park is just one of the many unique components of this park that stands alone as the single most environmentally diverse tract of land, open to the public, in this nook of the Inner Banks.
Published: Friday, December 27th, 2013 @ 6:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Hartford, along with numerous other musicians and historians, believed that Earl Scruggs was the true reason behind bluegrass music and the banjo's popularity and resonance.
Published: Friday, December 27th, 2013 @ 5:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
In March, 2010 and 2011, I spent a few wonderful afternoons on the National Mall in Washington, DC, and inside a few of the Smithsonian Museums along that storied strip of mostly treeless ground between the united States Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial.
Published: Wednesday, December 25th, 2013 @ 2:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Today, Vidant Health purchased 19.4 acres in Belhaven for a new multispecialty care clinic. The new, 12,000-square-foot facility will be located at 601 Old County Road, between the Post Office and the Food Lion shopping center, south of Highway 264. Design and construction is expected to be complete
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2013 @ 7:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
A Brunswick County native, William Henry Hill was the state's district attorney, a state senator, a University of North Carolina Trustee, and a U.S. Congressman.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2013 @ 2:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Free To Be Me, a local non-profit organization that offers airplane rides to sick and injured children, is planning to conduct an aerial parade for the children at the James and Connie Maynard Children’s Hospital at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Published: Friday, December 20th, 2013 @ 12:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Harvey Case, president of Vidant Beaufort Hospital has announced the appointment of Lou Montana-Rhodes as the new vice president of patient care services. Rhodes comes to Vidant Beaufort from Vidant Pungo Hospital, where she has served in the same leadership role since 2004. Rhodes replaces Kathy Si
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2013 @ 11:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
After the Civil War, former slaves were encouraged to participate in a free-labor economy. But much of the South lay in ruins. It was difficult to find work, much less start enterprising careers.
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2013 @ 12:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Vidant Beaufort Hospital is accepting letters of intent for the Community Benefit Grants program to support projects in the program’s health-related focus areas of access to care, chronic disease prevention and management and nutrition/physical activity.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 11:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
The first permanent white settler in what is now Tennessee was William Bean, who settled in 1769 on Boone's Creek, near where it flowed into the Watauga River.
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2013 @ 12:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
The last commander of Fort Fisher before its surrender to occupying Union forces, James Reilly's postwar years reveals the bond that many former Confederate and Union soldiers exhibited during the 1880s and 1890s.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 12:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Working together with elected officials and leaders from Hyde County, the Vidant Health Foundation today announced it will augment EMS services in the county by providing a $250,000 grant-in-aid to upgrade two medical emergency transport vehicles.
Published: Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 @ 11:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|