Affordable vendor spaces, community partnerships, and shared marketing create a launchpad for entrepreneurs.
( Published Friday, September 5th, 2025 @ 9:18 am )]]> Come out and support your local business community!
( Published Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 @ 10:38 am )]]> The county needs better leadership in community issues from education to economic development.
( Published Monday, May 5th, 2025 @ 1:28 pm )]]> Come explore the vendors and shopping May 3rd at the Beaufort Marketplace!
( Published Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 @ 4:19 pm )]]> Beaufort County officials on Thursday helped the Beaufort County Committee of 100 welcome renowned e-commerce, digital marketing, and consulting firm BTW Global, LLC to its new headquarters in Washington.
( Published Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 5:50 pm )]]> In the politcal age of Covid, Beaufort County may be taking some real advantage of "free money" rolling around making some communities richer while making our Republic far poorer ... in a relative sense.
( Published Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 2:22 pm )]]> I am now discovering that there is a new local political movement afoot to cast aspersions against me as a Beaufort County commissioner and as a service provider of extreme quality, even saying that my company is the "Webmaster" for the county site, which is false.
( Published Saturday, September 19th, 2020 @ 11:22 pm )]]> Mr. Brian Cooke is a former instructor of Management and Entrepreneurship at East Carolina University. Brian received his BSBA, concentrating in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management as well as an MBA from East Carolina University. During his time at ECU, Brian worked as the Assoc...
( Published Friday, April 15th, 2016 @ 1:49 am )]]> What takes an internet publication form a local communication portal - just so one might cry out a few salient ideals - to that community's dominant player, to a regional juggernaut?
( Published Thursday, August 13th, 2015 @ 6:28 pm )]]> Beaufort County NOW (BCN) will no longer be a stand alone entity, with a concentration on all subjects on God's complicated earth; BCN will now stand with Beaufort County Business (BCB) to concentrate on serving the business community in Beaufort County and the region of northeastern North Carolina.
( Published Thursday, April 2nd, 2015 @ 1:28 am )]]> Just one month ago, we similarly expressed this singular truth that our traffic was marching forward at a far greater clip than I anticipated, propelling us firmly into the No. 1 spot of all web sites originating from Beaufort County. Now after February's blow-out numbers, our gains are solidified.
( Published Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 6:04 am )]]> I have been discussing teacher pay rankings for years. In fact, three years ago I wrote a newsletter piece titled, Education spending in North Carolina: The ranking problem. In that piece, I outlined the major problems associated with the National Education Association (NEA) rankings of teacher...
( Published Sunday, August 3rd, 2014 @ 9:50 am )]]> Over the last few weeks we have published stories about Flanders Filters, a local manufacturing firm located in Beaufort County. The most recent story was about a change of management leadership at Flanders.
( Published Friday, July 18th, 2014 @ 11:53 am )]]> Governor Pat McCrory joined employees, executives and elected officials this morning to celebrate the groundbreaking of bioMérieux's new 25,500 square-foot facility in Durham.
( Published Friday, July 11th, 2014 @ 1:45 am )]]> Duke Energy, along with its consultants, unveiled their analysis of the Chocowinity Industrial Park to about three dozen community citizens Wednesday (7-9-14). It was an eye opener.
( Published Thursday, July 10th, 2014 @ 5:04 am )]]> Reliable source tell us there is a big shakeup going on at Flanders Filters, one of Beaufort County's largest manufacturing employers. Sources confirm that there was an employee meeting called this morning (6-27-14) and it was announced that CEO Harry Smith has been replaced by Peter Jones.
( Published Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014 @ 12:15 pm )]]> Beaufort County Economic Developer Bob Heuts has resigned, effective June 25, 2014, as Beaufort County's EDC executive officer.
( Published Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 10:33 am )]]>