Undoubtedly, the most calls I receive to my office concern our local roads. Our population has increased substantially. I will readily agree that our transportation infrastructure has not kept pace.
Published: Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 @ 9:12 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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In regard to your recent "Sound Off" section of the WDN, May 20th issue, an "anonymous caller," whose sole objective was to denigrate a duly elected county commissioner, I wondered what the purpose really was here.
Published: Wednesday, July 19th, 2023 @ 10:26 am
By: Lynn Deatherage
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Focusing on numbers never makes an interesting article, but the Chief Deputy has misled the public to such a degree that a boring, although enlightening, response is warranted.
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 2:34 am
By: Harry Meredith, Jr.
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The first thing I want to do is thank you Mr. Cratch for your article dated March 29th. This thanks is heartfelt and sincere.
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 @ 9:08 am
By: Harry Meredith, Jr.
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I see that Ernie had a fund raiser in Bath Saturday night that was well attended by his staff and a few other people.
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 9:13 am
By: Harry Meredith, Jr.
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So, the Sheriff is a participating member of this august body of law enforcement professionals that demand accountability from all Deputies. Yet, he does not demand the same from himself.
Published: Friday, December 24th, 2021 @ 2:03 am
By: Harry Meredith, Jr.
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NCACC Weekly Update — April 23
Published: Monday, April 26th, 2021 @ 7:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCACC Weekly Update — April 16
Published: Wednesday, April 21st, 2021 @ 7:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Yesterday, North Carolina’s Republican delegation in the United States House of Representatives sent a letter to the Biden Administration demanding answers for recent reports of illegal, COVID-positive migrants being bussed from Texas to North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, March 13th, 2021 @ 8:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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These qualified, impressive, and dedicated individuals reflect the diversity and strength of America and will play critical roles advancing the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to tackling the crises we face and building back our country better.
Published: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 @ 6:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen visited a large-scale vaccine site at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Friday Conference Center to witness health care workers and North Carolinians over age 65 receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Published: Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 @ 3:20 pm
By: Governor's Office
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, March 25th, 2020 @ 10:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis was flanked by N.C. House Speaker Moore, N.C. Senator Berger, and other eastern North Carolina Republican leaders as they highlighted the unacceptable pace at which Governor Cooper has allocated disaster relief for North Carolinians
Published: Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 @ 6:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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At the WDN /WBCCC Candidate's Forum, of October 15, 2018, its format limited participating candidates the time to fully conceptualize and deliver full explanations to the many significant issues that we face; however, that still did not hinder me.
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2018 @ 9:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Just yesterday, while campaigning at the polls, I was shown that Frankie Waters is making a political issue out of the fact that I am on record, recently at the WDN political forum, of wishing to revamp Beaufort County school security to a far more effective plan, costing far less money.
Published: Sunday, November 4th, 2018 @ 1:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Looking cleanly and well through the prism of history, it matters not that I have voted correctly on more than 90% on the issues that are the business of this board; what does matter is that there still exists Beaufort County Commissioners that are on the other side of these votes.
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 3:28 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I am somewhat sensitive to the "a soldier" reference in most of the news articles. The result is now that we are embroiled in a donnybrook over the death of someone who is now being referred to in almost every account as "a soldier."
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 10:58 am
By: Bobby Tony
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AOP saw a wonderful reception this past Thursday evening for the second group of Students of the Pamlico, and the Belhaven Arts Council Oil Painting Exhibits
Published: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017 @ 10:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Recently, I was sent a PDF of a Washington Daily News editorial, by William Buonanno of Chocowinity, detailing the certain ulterior motive by Commissioner Hood Richardson in regards to his campaign to keep the county jail in Beaufort County's county seat.
Published: Monday, June 1st, 2015 @ 8:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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We are just past the end of this year's "Israeli Apartheid Week," actually two weeks in the United States, from February 26 to March 12. As the very name implies, Israeli Apartheid Week seeks to persuade students and others that Israel is a pariah regime deserving of the same isolation that...
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2015 @ 1:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The County Commissioner or Sheriff races get more attention, and while those races are indeed important, the voters need to not sacrifice the opportunity to reform the office of the Clerk of Superior Court. Contrary to what the WDN would have you think that office is in great need of reform.
Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 @ 8:46 am
By: Ray Leary
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These are estimated daily expense numbers for the new 176 bed jail as based on an average 140 inmate population, i.e., 110 local inmates plus 30 transfers from state prison system (Al Klemm,: My Turn WDN, March 15, 2014).
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Don Cox, A.K.A. Mr. No-Show (does not show up for Candidates' Forums), who, up until now, has shown that he is completely incapable of discussing any issues at any time, now has twin issues he understands well enough to discuss: marijuana usage and Democrat strategy.
Published: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 @ 12:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Why does Harry want to use Barney to spread hate?
Published: Tuesday, May 6th, 2014 @ 1:14 pm
By: Donald Dixon
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The Washington Daily News will try their hand at reporting on politics, which well operates under the accurate categorical department of 'better late than never'.
Published: Monday, May 5th, 2014 @ 1:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Many of you read my article on the issue of property taxes being inflated by 30% BECAUSE no homes are selling at better than 70% of appraised value.
Published: Monday, April 7th, 2014 @ 8:02 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Joel Raupe wrote, here below, this celebratory piece briefly summarizing my efforts and intentions of when I first stood for election in 1994, and was elected to that Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners. Much has happened since then.
Published: Saturday, March 15th, 2014 @ 9:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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