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This is a new award that was inspired by feedback from our Social Work interns (BSW & MSW) as they described an agency that was supportive with a positive culture.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 @ 10:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I had been appointed to be the County Commissioner representative on the Beaufort County Board of Health having attended only one board meeting when I was handed a shocker.
Published: Thursday, April 4th, 2013 @ 11:21 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Kathryn Shepard was honored as Southside High School’s nominee to the Beaufort County Board of Education for the character trait of perseverance.
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2013 @ 11:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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An open response to Larry Britt on Al Klemm's betrayal of conservative government in Beaufort CountyRather, we are reporting what we view to be a major story...that Al Klemm continues to betray the people in Beaufort County who believe in Republican principles. We believe we have a duty to expose Klemm's betrayal of those principles.
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners voted four to three retain Jerry Langley as chairman of the board.
Published: Monday, December 3rd, 2012 @ 11:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The chairmanship will be selected tonight, and it will set the political tone for this board for some time hence.
Published: Monday, December 3rd, 2012 @ 12:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Kellie Hopkins, Director of Elections for Beaufort County, issued two press releases: One from the Beaufort County Board of Elections and one from the North Carolina Board of Elections below the first.
Published: Thursday, November 29th, 2012 @ 6:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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With the final Bill Cook recount close at hand, Kellie Hopkins, Director of Elections in Beaufort County, issues a statement here below.
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 @ 2:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new Civitas Institute study has confirmed what critics have been saying for years: North Carolina's Same Day and Last-Minute Voter Registration processes are seriously flawed.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 10:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A faction within the Republican party has attacked me as I seek re election to the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners. Differences of opinion are what politics are about.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 8:12 am
By: Hood Richardson
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There is nothing to economically develop at the county level in so far as new industry. That reality applies to every county in the United States.
Published: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 @ 10:10 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Hood reports his knowledge of what county business transpired during the August 6, 2012 general meeting.
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 @ 2:23 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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The disasters of the Economic Development Council spending spree, the loss of the hospital, the millions lost in the school bond over run, the over building of the school system, and the building of the US 17 bypass also known are serious events in the history of Beaufort C
Published: Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 @ 6:58 am
By: Hood Richardson
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In North Carolina, the politician seeking the nomination of their party, by virtue of the primary, must win 40% of the vote in that primary, irrespective of the number of contestants in that race.
Published: Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 @ 11:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This primary runoff begins and unless you have been living under a rock, you must know the significance in these runoff elections, especially in eastern North Carolina.
Published: Friday, June 29th, 2012 @ 1:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lately, big news revolves around the Economic Development Council also called the EDC and the Committee of 100.
Published: Friday, May 18th, 2012 @ 2:38 am
By: Hood Richardson
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During the last few months the City of Washington has sponsored and applied for several grants, none of which will require any funding to be provided by local taxpayers.
Published: Monday, May 14th, 2012 @ 8:43 am
By: Warren Smith
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I downloaded the 2013 County budget (all 168 pages) and have been through every page in it. I worked my way through it one page at a time to get a "fix" on what's in it.
Published: Sunday, May 13th, 2012 @ 8:43 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Watch for the irrelevant claim that thousands of jobs have been lost since 1980. Actually, healthy economies lose old jobs and create new jobs continually.
Published: Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 @ 5:12 am
By: Warren Smith
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Ethics can be either a curse or a blessing. Depends on who is holding the whip. Depends on what whoever is trying to do to their enemies and how they are trying to protect their friends.
Published: Monday, March 19th, 2012 @ 4:50 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Guess what. It's time to put our next county budget together. Boy!! Time really seems to fly when you're having fun...
Published: Sunday, March 18th, 2012 @ 5:44 am
By: Jim Bispo
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The Economic Development Commission's By-Laws of July 3, 2001 require convening an annual meeting in March. At this meeting there is to be a formal presentation of an annual report. Was such a meeting held in 2011? Are these meeting not covered by the Open Meeting Laws?
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2012 @ 7:54 pm
By: Warren Smith
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It is rumored that the property initially earmarked for the incentive land grant to P&G/A&E Manufacturing has not qualified for the state funded sewer grant necessary to improve the property for the construction of A&E's 50,000 sq. ft. building.
Published: Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 @ 4:36 am
By: Warren Smith
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