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Fifteen percent of workforce to be laid off: Expect region.immediate impact in Beaufort County, and surrounding region.
Press Release:

PCS Phosphate Company, Inc. (PotashCorp - Aurora) announced today that it is reducing staffing levels at its phosphate facility by approximately 150 full-time positions, or about 15 percent of its current workforce.

Following a review of key operating processes, changes were identified to lower operating costs while maintaining the operational capability of ... (read more)
Symbiotic Publishing Company, a wholly owned division of Symbiotic Networks Incorporated, is proud to announce that its prototype publication, Beaufort County Now (BCN), is now ready for all manners of marketing as the near perfect delivery system, possibly more than ready.

This delivery system, a product of our proprietary content management system (CMS), Symbiotic Publisher, is tried and now proven true, and even though we have never truly promoted this "informational platform," BCN is one ... (read more)
For immediate release:

GREENVILLE, N.C. - Effective June 2012, health care providers at Inner Banks Urgent Care in Washington will begin seeing patients at other practices throughout the county.

The providers will no longer see patients at Inner Banks Urgent Care.

The urgent care providers will rotate among internal medicine, family medicine and women's care practices.
The former Beaufort County Hospital now owned by Vidant Health, formerly University Health Systems. photo by Stan De... (read more)
Beaufort County Now completes its second full year, in current existence, and is pleased to announce a continuance in traffic increases. 2011 was a building year for Beaufort County Now (BCN), our prototype of our proprietary Symbiotic Publisher CMS (Content Management System).

We spent a good bit of time refining the technology, or script, and then honing the look (design) and navigation of BCN. Twice during 2011, we reloaded the BCN data into an updated variation of the Symbiotic Publisher ... (read more)

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Fifteen percent of workforce to be laid off: Expect region.immediate impact in Beaufort County, and surrounding region.
Press Release:

PCS Phosphate Company, Inc. (PotashCorp - Aurora) announced today that it is reducing staffing levels at its phosphate facility by approximately 150 full-time positions, or about 15 percent of its current workforce.

Following a review of key operating processes, changes were identified to lower operating costs while maintaining the operational capability of ... (read more)
Publisher's note: Below is solid citizen, Warren Smith's ongoing, and well stated, "Letter to the Commissioner." We agree: At some point, Beaufort County needs to remedy its Economic Development mess, then North Carolina needs to tend to its mess as well.

Beaufort County Commissioners
121. W. Third Street
Washington, NC 27889

Dear Commissioners:

During the last few months the City of Washington has sponsored and applied for several grants, none of which will require any funding to b... (read more)
Rick Henderson is the managing editor of Carolina Journal.

Rate remains more than 1 percentage point above national figure

RALEIGH North Carolina's unemployment rate dropped 0.2 percentage points in March to a seasonally adjusted rate of 9.7 percent as the number of unemployed fell and the number of people with jobs rose.

Even so, North Carolina's unemployment rate remains more than 1 percentage point higher than the national rate in both seasonally adjusted (9.7 percent versus 8.2 perce... (read more)
Publisher's note: The author, Becki Gray, is vice president of outreach for the John Locke Foundation.

Natural gas exploration using hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, may be moving forward in North Carolina. Gov. Bev Perdue recently changed her mind and supports it, with limitations. A new report says it's safe with the right restrictions and will create jobs. The General Assembly is ready to authorize it.

A bipartisan vote in the General Assembly supported natural gas exploration by pass... (read more)

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Real Estate

Press Release:

Pactolus Farms, LLC (Pitt County Execution File Number 10cvs2024)

On Thursday, March 8th,Beaufort County Sheriff's Sale 102 W. 2nd St., Washington , N. C., a sale to the last highest bidder will 2012 at 12:30 pm at the front door of the Beaufort County Courthouse,be conducted for one parcel of approximately 80.0 acres of land located on the east side of Cherry Run Road, Washington, NC, Washington Township, Beaufort County, between Wharton Station Road and Page Road near th... (read more)
Every Friday, a list of the current foreclosure inventory in Beaufort County is compiled for your reference.

Though Beaufort County Now attempts to be accurate in everything it publishes, the accuracy of the following information is not guaranteed and should not be solely relied upon for making financial decisions. Inaccurate information is, sometimes, found among the data within the foreclosure files, and the attached substitute trustee must be contacted to correct or clarify. The fol... (read more)
Every Friday, a list of the current foreclosure inventory in Beaufort County is compiled for your reference.

Though Beaufort County Now attempts to be accurate in everything it publishes, the accuracy of the following information is not guaranteed and should not be solely relied upon for making financial decisions. Inaccurate information is, sometimes, found among the data within the foreclosure files, and the attached substitute trustee must be contacted to correct or clarify. The foll... (read more)
Every Friday, a list of the current foreclosure inventory in Beaufort County is compiled for your reference.

Though Beaufort County Now attempts to be accurate in everything it publishes, the accuracy of the following information is not guaranteed and should not be solely relied upon for making financial decisions. Inaccurate information is, sometimes, found among the data within the foreclosure files, and the attached substitute trustee must be contacted to correct or clarify. The foll... (read more)

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The Markets

North Korean state television has reported that the 69 year North Korea Leader had passed on. The domineering dictator of a poor, pathetic nation, who could not feed its people, but found the resources to struggle to acquire nuclear weapons, suffered a stroke in 2008. Today, after 13 years of serving in a position of North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong Il is finished.

The North Korean government is one of the few true Communist / Dictator governing models remaining in this modern world,... (read more)
Dateline - November 21, 2010: The Congressional Super Committee, and President Obama, fail to do their respective jobs. Stock Market drops over 2% after being down 3 of the last 4 trading days.

The Congressional Super Committee, consisting of six Democrats, six Republicans from both the United States house and Senate is on the brink of failure. This may come as a surprise to some you, but it does appear that the Democrats and the Republicans can not come to grips on how to devise a way forw... (read more)
Steve Jobs, a decidedly original creative force, and one of the most iconic CEOs in the history of the world is dead. Steve Jobs lived 56 years, making each one of those years the building blocks of his ultimate, and most celebrated uniqueness, has died of a rare, and very aggressive form of Pancreatic Cancer after several years of fighting this terrible disease.

Mr. Jobs, through his Apple Brand, employed 49,000 employees, most of them Americans, which they created, and built, and ultimately... (read more)
Should I sell, should I buy, or should I just put a gun to my head and relieve the misery? If these questions have not yet crossed your mind in the last week - you're in a pretty good place. This means you are probably not investing in the United States equities markets, or you are a "high frequency trader," and you're loving the volatility; however, for the vast majority of us, who struggle to invest in this most uncertain environment, we just know the high anxiety of certain risk.

And cer... (read more)





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