I want to take this opportunity to address the issue of building a new jail in Beaufort County. Building a law enforcement complex that includes the jail has been a topic for more than fifteen years, and will probably be for another fifteen years.
Published: Tuesday, October 15th, 2013 @ 9:22 am
By: Harry Meredith, Jr.
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On September 2, 2013, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a report of a sex offender failing to notify the Sheriff's Office of an address change. The Sheriff's Office began an investigation and conducted interviews.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 @ 5:35 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a report of a Breaking and Entering and Larceny at a residence on Craft Lane in Washington. Deputies responded to the residence, collected information and began an investigation. An aluminum metal break, commercial stainless steel fryer, a window AC unit...
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2013 @ 9:13 am
By: Chris Downey
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Mr. Billy Dixon, a resident of 10408 Bending Way, Upper Marlboro, Md., and formerly of Washington, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 1013.
Published: Tuesday, September 17th, 2013 @ 4:49 pm
By: Announcements
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The silence in Beaufort County is almost deafening. The Feds and "Homeland Security", under the guise of target practice and training, are buying well over 1.5 BILLION rounds of ammo.
Published: Sunday, June 2nd, 2013 @ 9:22 pm
By: Donald Dixon
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Governor Pat McCrory and House Speaker Thom Tillis got together today to help the partisan Democrats who run the city of Raleigh shove a knife in the backs of the legislative majority that voted to block the highly-questionable deal.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2013 @ 10:42 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory and Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane have asked the General Assembly to set the effective date of the Dorothea Dix lease bill to next year, in order to give the State of North Carolina and the City of Raleigh time to negotiate an improved deal.
Published: Saturday, May 25th, 2013 @ 11:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Sustainability is second only to diversity as the most used word in the campus lexicon. While its meaning is vague and its scope unclear, the underlying idea is that you care about the environment and that you are consuming no more energy than you need.
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2013 @ 12:14 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Mrs. Estelle Arnold Dixon, 77, of Pactolus, passed away Tuesday, April 30, 2013.
Published: Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 @ 2:57 pm
By: Announcements
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The mission statement of Dix306.org, a lobbying group pushing to preserve a lease struck in December between the Perdue administration and the city of Raleigh, reads...
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 11:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democrats' last minute sweetheart deal to hand over Dix hospital property to the city of Raleigh is collapsing, and boys are those lefties upset.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 9:46 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Maybe more so than any other novelist below the Mason-Dixon line, including the 19th-century William Gilmore Simms of South Carolina, Inglis Fletcher of North Carolina painted the most comprehensive, historical portrait of the land on which she lived.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 1:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We have been entrusted by you, the taxpayers of our state, to make fiscally and legally responsible decisions that are in the best interests of all North Carolinians.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 8:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Imagine that the first-term governor of your state declined to seek reelection. In the interim between the election of his successor and his leaving office, this lame-duck governor sought to use the power of his office to make a last-minute real estate deal.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 3:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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March Madness is the moniker given the NCAA basketball tournament championship, but this year in North Carolina it is taking on new meaning. Seems like everyone is mad about something.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 2:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Perdue was wrong on several levels to have committed the state to an agreement over the Dorothea Dix property, but so is the legislature wrong in reneging on the deal.
Published: Monday, March 25th, 2013 @ 7:57 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Mrs. Isabel "Tuck" Bowers Dixon, age 88, a resident of 166 Robersonville Road, Washington, died Sunday, March 3, 2013, at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 3:02 pm
By: Announcements
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Gloria Jean Dixon Craft Herrera, 65, a resident of 205 Arnold St., Vanceboro, died Tuesday, February 12, 2013, at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 3:31 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Gloria Ruth Dixon, age 58, a resident of Edwards Road, Chocowinity, NC, died on Monday, January 7, 2013, at Vidant Medical Center.
Published: Thursday, January 10th, 2013 @ 2:09 pm
By: Announcements
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Gloria Ruth Dixon, 58, a resident of Edwards Road, Chocowinity, died Monday, January 7, 2013.
Published: Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 @ 4:26 pm
By: Announcements
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We're in the top ten in the nation -- in terms of unemployment. Of the 19 states STILL indebted to the federal government for repayment of emergency unemployment funds, North Carolina has the third highest debt behind only New York and California.
Published: Thursday, December 6th, 2012 @ 5:28 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The physical abandonment of the Dorothea Dix campus in Raleigh is a final exclamation point on the state's moral abandonment of the mentally ill, essentially returning us to mid-19th century conditions when the mentally ill were confined to jails, locked in attics or hidden from sight in poorhouses.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 8:14 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Mr. Harvey Henry Dixon, Jr., age 86, a resident of 105 South East Avenue, North Shores, Washington, NC, died Saturday, October 6, 2012 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Monday, October 8th, 2012 @ 10:39 pm
By: Announcements
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Please join us for dinner and silent auction to support my husband, Donald Dixon, for Beaufort Co. Commissioner.
Published: Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 @ 4:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I, like many others, mourned the passing of John Lennon in December, 1980. Not unlike those sad times, Levon Helm of the The Band, passed today, and like the musical promise of John Lennon, unfulfilled, he will be missed for all he accomplished.
Published: Thursday, April 19th, 2012 @ 11:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Jean Carolyn Perry Dixon, age 81, a resident of 50 Elks Road, Chocowinity, N.C., died Monday, July 11, 2011, at her home. A graveside funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 14, 2011, at Pamlico Memorial Gardens officiated by Greg Richards.
Published: Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 @ 5:35 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Jean Perry Dixon, age 81, a resident of 50 Elks Road, Chocowinity, died Monday, July 11, 2011, at her home. Arrangements will be announced by Paul Funeral Home & Crematory of Washington.
Published: Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 @ 1:06 pm
By: Announcements
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Ms. Martha Louise Dixon, 75, a resident of 8881 Hwy. 264 East, Washington, died Thursday morning, April 21, 2011.
Published: Friday, April 22nd, 2011 @ 1:59 pm
By: Announcements
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Confrontational? Sure, but that is local politics as the forces of political proponents collide, as they struggle to protect what they hold dear, what they hold sacred.
Published: Sunday, November 7th, 2010 @ 11:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Jordan called Beaufort County Now this afternoon and explained that his statement had been delayed by the deparment's investigation of the recent murder of a Bath resident.
Published: Friday, October 22nd, 2010 @ 9:48 pm
By: BCN
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