The origins of labor Day are rather dubious, born from congressional guilt of Americans shot down, by the Army and U.S. Marshalls, while exercising their first amendment right to congregate and protest during the Pullman Strike in Haymarket Square in Chicago on may 4, 1886.
( Published Monday, September 7th, 2026 @ 2:06 pm )]]> On Wednesday, August 27, 2026 at approximately 8:33 a.m. the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office responded to a residence on Winchester Drive in Washington for a report of a male subject who was suicidal and armed with a handgun.
( Published Saturday, August 29th, 2026 @ 1:56 pm )]]> Please click on the link to access the agenda for the Monday, August 10, 2026 City Council Meeting.
( Published Tuesday, August 11th, 2026 @ 12:53 pm )]]> This week, the North Carolina Sheriffs' Association hosted sheriffs, sheriffs' personnel and their families for their Annual Business Conference.
( Published Saturday, August 8th, 2026 @ 12:09 pm )]]> Procedure reduces barriers to care through innovative, one-time treatment for brain tumors
( Published Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 @ 4:24 pm )]]> On July 17th, 2026, members of the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested 38-year-old Tyshawn Laron Mann of Englehard NC for drug trafficking and other drug related offenses.
( Published Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 @ 10:49 am )]]> 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.
( Published Sunday, August 2nd, 2026 @ 9:10 am )]]> 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.
( Published Sunday, August 2nd, 2026 @ 8:36 am )]]> 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
( Published Tuesday, July 28th, 2026 @ 9:03 am )]]> 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.
( Published Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 @ 10:24 am )]]> 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
( Published Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 @ 9:40 am )]]> 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.
( Published Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026 @ 7:57 pm )]]> 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.
( Published Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026 @ 7:52 pm )]]> 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.
( Published Tuesday, July 7th, 2026 @ 5:57 pm )]]> 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.
( Published Sunday, July 5th, 2026 @ 6:29 pm )]]> 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."
( Published Saturday, July 4th, 2026 @ 6:30 pm )]]> 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 )]]> Plan could return up to $4 million to Washington taxpayers; Davis urges residents to attend and speak Monday, June 8
( Published Tuesday, June 9th, 2026 @ 5:04 pm )]]> 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.
( Published Saturday, June 6th, 2026 @ 12:38 pm )]]> 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.
( Published Saturday, June 6th, 2026 @ 12:36 pm )]]> 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.
( Published Saturday, June 6th, 2026 @ 12:35 pm )]]> Please click on the link to access the agenda for the Monday, June 8, 2026 City Council meeting.
( Published Friday, June 5th, 2026 @ 11:27 am )]]> 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 )]]> In 1920, the American Legion adopted the red poppy as the symbol of remembrance of those who gave their lives in war.
( Published Sunday, May 24th, 2026 @ 9:46 am )]]> 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.
( Published Sunday, May 24th, 2026 @ 9:45 am )]]>