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Sonja Harriet Taylor Griffin, age 86, died on December 31, 2025, after a brief period of declining health.
Published: Monday, January 5th, 2026 @ 7:03 am
By: Announcements
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Local Government Commission Approves Over $300 Million in Financing Requests
Published: Sunday, March 24th, 2024 @ 8:01 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Local Government Commission Votes in Favor of Bonds; Financing for Other Projects Approved
Published: Sunday, August 6th, 2023 @ 9:42 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Reps. Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) and David Rouzer (NC-07) introduced legislation this week to revise the boundaries of Unit L06 of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System in North Topsail Beach, North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 @ 3:50 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Approves Nearly $750 Million in School Bonds for Durham, Union, Watauga Counties
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 @ 11:05 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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At the February Board meeting, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $1,080,800 in funding to support projects through the Open Grants Program and $562,678 in increased Disaster Recovery Grant Program funding.
Published: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 10:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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N.C. Treasurer Folwell & Board Want Results, Not Just Studies That Drain Limited Funds
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 12:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $1,080,800 in funding to support projects through the Open Grants Program and $562,678 in increased Disaster Recovery Grant Program funding.
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 9:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The new North Carolina budget has many positive elements, with notable tax cuts and school choice expansion. On balance, there is more good than bad.
Published: Friday, January 7th, 2022 @ 12:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today $194 million in loans and grants to help pay for 54 drinking water and wastewater projects.
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2020 @ 11:22 am
By: Governor's Office
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We are continuing to monitor an approaching cold front that has the potential to bring severe weather to Eastern NC tonight through tomorrow.
Published: Sunday, April 12th, 2020 @ 11:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In addition to the design and construction of a new levee in Princeville, the US Army Corps of Engineers announced that it will direct $281.5 million to complete two significant resiliency projects in eastern North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2020 @ 11:55 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) released the following statement after the Army Corps of Engineers announced it will complete two projects in the Third District to help mitigate the impact of storm damage.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2020 @ 4:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Coastal communities are no strangers to the heavy winds and the massive storm surges hurricanes bring.
Published: Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 @ 10:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In true government fashion, the NC House has tried to slip a very bad bill past the citizens of North Carolina and has rushed and hushed it in order to prejudice those most harmed, our North Carolina commercial fishermen and our fellow recreational fishermen.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 8:56 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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On Oct. 25, Angus Konstam, historian and pirate expert, led an audience of Greenville community members and East Carolina Univerity faculty, staff and students through a brief history of the pirate Blackbeard during his discussion, "Blackbeard at 300: New Findings on North Carolina's Most (In)famous
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2018 @ 12:13 pm
By: ECU News Services
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State lawmakers told tales of destruction of and struggles in hurricane-battered communities before unanimously approving $56.5 million spread over two emergency response bills.
Published: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018 @ 1:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With Hurricane Florence now a category 4 hurricane, Governor Roy Cooper this evening urged North Carolina residents, businesses and visitors not to delay preparations and to follow evacuation orders
Published: Monday, September 10th, 2018 @ 8:31 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced 56 appointments to various state boards and commissions for North Carolina, including the Criminal Justice Information Network, the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences Advisory Commission and the Forestry Council
Published: Tuesday, February 27th, 2018 @ 12:02 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) reintroduced H.R. 4692, legislation that would correct a 30-year old federal mapping error that incorrectly prohibited a substantial portion of North Topsail Beach from accessing the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and other disaster assistance
Published: Thursday, December 21st, 2017 @ 5:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Anne Butler Gray, 97, of Wilmington, N.C., passed away Sept. 16, 2017, at Davis Health Care in Wilmington, N.C
Published: Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 @ 3:05 pm
By: Announcements
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Gov. Roy Cooper today announced $6.2 million in grants to fund local parks and recreation projects through this year's awards of the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund (PARTF)
Published: Friday, September 8th, 2017 @ 12:12 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor McCrory Warns North Carolinians to be Prepared for Historic Flooding from Hurricane MatthewAs the latest storm track for Hurricane Matthew shifts further north and west, Governor Pat McCrory is warning North Carolinians to be prepared for historic flooding.
Published: Monday, October 10th, 2016 @ 8:04 am
By: McCrory Communications
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As Tropical Storm Hermine moves quickly through North Carolina, Governor Pat McCrory is reminding the public not to let its guard down just yet.
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2016 @ 1:57 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 10:52 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Scott Jones, a doctoral candidate at East Carolina University, spent Monday showing middle and high school students different types of aquatic insects and telling them about his research of population and community ecology.
Published: Thursday, April 30th, 2015 @ 12:40 am
By: ECU News Services
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On Thursday, July 24, 2014, I presented Senate Bill - SB788 (Town of Duck Eminent Domain) and Senate Bill - SB877 (Exempt Time Shares/Rule Against Perpetuities) to the Committee on Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House.
Published: Saturday, July 26th, 2014 @ 9:15 pm
By: Bill Cook
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Opponents say a tax on plastic bags being explored by the Raleigh City Council would be "extraordinarily regressive," could cost consumers $1.8 million annually, would not help the environment, and may be unconstitutional.
Published: Wednesday, July 16th, 2014 @ 4:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With World War II imminent, in December 1940, the U.S. Government awarded $16.8 million in contracts for building one of the first military installations in preparation for that war.
Published: Friday, May 30th, 2014 @ 9:29 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Along with Tuesday's primary elections for congressional, legislative, judicial, county, and municipal offices, voters in more than a dozen North Carolina counties decided measures involving taxes, debt, and alcohol sales.
Published: Friday, May 9th, 2014 @ 10:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Congressman Walter Jones takes action and relates it to his constituents through these press releases.
Published: Thursday, April 10th, 2014 @ 4:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Congressman Walter Jones takes action and relates it to his constituents through these press releases.
Published: Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 @ 3:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Congressman Walter Jones takes action and relates it to his constituents through these press releases.
Published: Saturday, April 5th, 2014 @ 8:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Pender County was once part of New Hanover County, it was annexed from the coastal county in 1875 and named for the area native, William D. Pender, the youngest Confederate general who died in 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Published: Sunday, April 28th, 2013 @ 10:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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