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WASHINGTON, N.C.— For two local women, a single class at Beaufort County Community College opened the door to unexpected business ventures.
Published: Sunday, June 1st, 2025 @ 9:38 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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The Marketing of Things for Local Businesses.
Published: Thursday, November 30th, 2023 @ 12:55 pm
By: David Winstead
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People with unattractive faces celebrated this week as locales and businesses across the nation began reinstituting mask mandates.
Published: Monday, October 23rd, 2023 @ 11:59 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Local man Ernest Thompson is starting to think now may have been a bad time to launch his own business, "Crazy Ernie's Deep Sea Expeditions."
Published: Saturday, August 12th, 2023 @ 9:06 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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NEW YORK, NY — A local man being robbed at gunpoint on the subway expressed relief that prosecutors are hard at work attempting to bring President Donald Trump to justice on charges of falsifying business records.
Published: Monday, April 17th, 2023 @ 12:19 am
By: Babylon Bee
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A gardener succeeded in his plot to ruin a local man's important Zoom call by lurking in the bushes outside the man's window and firing up his leaf blower as the business meeting began.
Published: Thursday, November 10th, 2022 @ 4:17 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Local workforce development boards will use funds to help jobseekers, small businesses
Published: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 8:40 am
By: Governor's Office
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A local attorney specializing in heated, bitter divorces has seen his business thrive since he set up shop at the exit of his local IKEA store.
Published: Saturday, November 5th, 2022 @ 8:39 am
By: Babylon Bee
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A local man is being forced to leave behind friends, family, and even his own name to seek his fortune in a far-off country after accidentally ending a business call by saying "I love you."
Published: Sunday, October 16th, 2022 @ 3:49 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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The legislature has passed several measures in the past two years that local distillers say have benefitted their business operations and improved their relationship with the state ABC Commission.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2022 @ 6:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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According to sources, local feminist business executive Sarah McAndrews prefers to unwind after a hard day at work by sitting on the couch with a pint of ice cream while fantasizing about being a happily married stay-at-home mom.
Published: Thursday, May 26th, 2022 @ 10:38 am
By: Babylon Bee
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New Treasury guidance on state and local Covid relief spending is a nod to government and a flippant disregard of taxpayers and small businesses.
Published: Friday, March 4th, 2022 @ 7:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the spread of police cowardice is insuring that rioting events, beginning as peaceful protests, prove to be fertile soil for lawless looting and thuggery, Beaufort County's Commissioners voted to aggressively defend local businesses that could become targets of destruction by anarchists.
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 3:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Every Small Purchase Makes A Big Difference. Stop by the locally-owned, independent businesses in Uptown Greenville on Saturday, November 27th for the annual “Small Business Saturday” event.
Published: Wednesday, November 24th, 2021 @ 9:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Local communities, legislators, and businesses are having a hard time understanding why Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget office pulled the plug on $32 million in grants for rural broadband projects that had attracted 70 applicants.
Published: Friday, December 4th, 2020 @ 5:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper in a new executive order is encouraging local authorities to pursue criminal and civil penalties against businesses that fail to uphold mask and distancing requirements.
Published: Saturday, November 28th, 2020 @ 5:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Shop ‘Till You Drop in Uptown!
Published: Wednesday, November 25th, 2020 @ 5:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina won’t ease restrictions on its economy and residents before May 22, despite increasing pressure from local businesses and Republican leaders.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 @ 5:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It has begun. Or, probably more accurately, a local and statewide crusade to prevent privatization of North Carolina’s liquor business is intensifying.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2019 @ 5:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Residents in Wilson, Salisbury, Mooresville, Davidson, and Morganton were being hit with higher taxes and even electricity and water rates as their cities were bleeding money. Why?
Published: Thursday, April 25th, 2019 @ 11:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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"A survey by NFIB found 108 million consumers reported shopping or dining at local businesses on Small Business Saturday in 2017. And 90 percent of consumers agreed that Small Business Saturday makes a positive impact on their community."
Published: Saturday, November 24th, 2018 @ 12:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. House of Representative on Friday, July 13, voted to close a loophole in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, which requires agencies to curtail the regulatory costs on local governments and businesses
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 6:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Greenville's Republican Mayor, P.J. Connelly, has been working nonstop on his economic agenda since being elected in 2017, which is focused on partnering with local businesses to create more jobs and new opportunities
Published: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018 @ 10:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Joined by local business leaders and elected officials, Gov. Roy Cooper once again called on the Trump Administration today to grant North Carolina an exemption from proposed seismic testing and offshore drilling and pledged potential legal action to protect North Carolina's coastal communities
Published: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018 @ 2:29 am
By: Governor's Office
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Uptown Greenville rallies consumers to shop local during the annual "Small Business Saturday" event held on November 25
Published: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017 @ 11:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Saturday, September 15th 2017 the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a report from a local business in Bath NC, of a possible fraud
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2017 @ 8:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory joined state, local and business leaders in Kinston today to tour the damage from Hurricane Matthew and to celebrate the grand reopening of Neuse Sport Shop just a week after the cleanup efforts began.
Published: Thursday, October 27th, 2016 @ 1:13 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory joined state and local officials at a groundbreaking ceremony today to begin improvements on a 20-mile portion of the historic Business 40 highway between I-40 east of Kernersville and I-40 west of Winston-Salem.
Published: Saturday, October 22nd, 2016 @ 10:51 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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East Carolina University's Willis Building is now home to a collaborative partnership aimed at fostering entrepreneurship and giving a leg up to local business start-ups
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 11:50 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Governor Pat McCrory joined local business leaders and state and local officials for the RTP Series Event hosted by the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce today to highlight economic improvements in Durham, and the state as a whole
Published: Wednesday, September 7th, 2016 @ 11:36 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory celebrated the contributions of local small businesses by proclaiming Saturday, November 28, 2015, as Small Business Saturday in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:02 am
By: McCrory Communications
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In recent weeks, the small town of Fairmont, N.C. has received what is likely the most national media coverage it has seen in years. The Robeson County town of less than 3,000 is home to Lyndon McLellan, who owns and operates a local convenience store. Last summer, his entire business bank...
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 @ 11:40 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Beaufort County Community College Foundation recently brought together about 80 of its donors, scholarship recipients, members of its Board of Directors, BCCC trustees and local business women and men who have supported Foundation events through the years at its Third Annual Legacy Luncheon.
Published: Friday, May 1st, 2015 @ 6:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County Community College and local economic development interests recently announced the launch of an effort to certify the county to those seeking to locate their businesses here or expand an existing business.
Published: Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 @ 12:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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