This year has proven to be a very busy one for Angels N Camo. Angels N Camo is a 501c3 non-profit organization that raises funds to grant hunting and fishing adventure trip wishes for disabled children and children with life threatening illnesses in Eastern North Carolina based in Washington, NC.
Published: Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 @ 9:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Harris Teeter, LLC will expand the perishable facility of its existing Indian Trail Distribution Center in Union County.
Published: Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 @ 11:08 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Social media is ubiquitous in the lives of the millennial generation, and its use is still evolving.
Published: Monday, August 18th, 2014 @ 10:46 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Belhaven resident Donald Collins was ready for a change.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 4:36 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Cisco will expand its workforce in Research Triangle Park.
Published: Saturday, June 7th, 2014 @ 11:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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For a growing number of cities and municipalities, when fiscal times get tough, the tough go...to the market. Take recently cited examples from Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Nassau County NY, and Pittsburgh PA. All are looking for new angles to increase local revenues. They are looking...
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beaufort County Community College broke ground this week on a new walking trail that will give the community a convenient place to exercise and enjoy nature at the same time.
Published: Thursday, April 24th, 2014 @ 7:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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No one has yet offered any kind of cash flow spreadsheet for the public to use in assessing the proposed jail to be built in Chocowinity.
Published: Thursday, April 17th, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: Warren Smith
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The Beaufort County Community College Board of Trustees on Tuesday agreed to seek an increase in appropriations from the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners in the coming fiscal year with the majority of the increase coming from needed construction projects.
Published: Thursday, April 17th, 2014 @ 10:30 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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This morning at 9 a.m. the leadership of Vidant Health, the NC Conference of Branches of the NAACP, and the NAACP Branches in Hyde and Beaufort Counties are pleased to announce that they have worked out an agreement to keep Vidant Pungo Hospital open.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 12:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This morning at 9 a.m. the leadership of Vidant Health, the NC Conference of Branches of the NAACP, and the NAACP Branches in Hyde and Beaufort Counties are pleased to announce that they have worked out an agreement to keep Vidant Pungo Hospital open.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 10:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Reforms in education, regulation, and the state tax code all generated bigger headlines. But the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is publicizing another accomplishment from the 2013 session of the N.C. General Assembly. Robert Shibley, senior vice president of FIRE, discussed the...
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2014 @ 1:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The great American ethic is that money will buy anything. It is particularly true in the political world. We try to buy everything from international friendship to better schools to votes to taxpayer support for some behavior that politicians believe we should embrace.
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 11:47 am
By: Jim Bispo
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today.
Published: Saturday, December 28th, 2013 @ 12:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Nutkao USA, Inc. will be locating its nut butter manufacturing operation in Nash County.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2013 @ 8:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today.
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2013 @ 1:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today,
Published: Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 @ 9:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Spuntech Industries, Inc., a global spunlace manufacturing company based in Israel, will expand its operations in Person County.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2013 @ 11:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. will open a major perishable grocery distribution center in Alamance County.
Published: Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 @ 12:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Simpson spends at least an hour a week at Golden Living Center in Greenville through the "Adopt-a-Grandparent" program with the goal to match students and local senior citizens for supportive, meaningful, one-on-one relationships. Simpson learned about the program at the ECU Volunteer and Service-Le
Published: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 @ 6:56 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Consider a new holiday tradition this year: green travel. That's the goal of the East Carolina University developers of the United States Travel Care Code. The Center for Sustainability: Tourism, Natural Resources, and the Built Environment at ECU developed the travel care code, which encourage...
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2013 @ 5:51 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Educators, wildlife officers, law enforcement officials and office workers were among the state employees from all across the state to be honored Tuesday afternoon with the Governor's Award for Excellence at a ceremony at the North Carolina Museum of History. Ten of the award recipients were ...
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 12:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I bear good news about a bright spot in higher education. In early 2013, Texas Tech University joined the ranks of world-leading institutions studying and teaching about free markets.
Published: Sunday, October 13th, 2013 @ 5:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Jacob Holm Industries, a global nonwoven manufacturing company, will expand its operations in Buncombe County.
Published: Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 @ 8:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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FirstCarolinaCare Insurance Company is withdrawing from participation in the federal health exchange. Uninsured North Carolina consumers will have only two provider options from which to purchase policies approved by federal regulators and mandated under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare)...
Published: Sunday, September 15th, 2013 @ 10:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services is highlighting programs across the state that aim to reduce the prevalence of suicide as part of National Suicide Prevention Week.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 2:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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With flu cases already appearing in our state, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos is encouraging all North Carolinians to protect themselves by getting the flu vaccine.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 4:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Individual health insurance premiums in North Carolina would spike as much as 80 percent on average due to the effects of Obamacare mandates if plans submitted by Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina receive federal approval as expected.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Vidant Beaufort Hospital recently awarded its annual community benefit grants totaling $133,531 to six local community organizations. These funds are made available from the Vidant Health Foundation to help support community projects that focus on wellness and prevention strategies.
Published: Saturday, August 24th, 2013 @ 10:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tomatoes that don't rot for more than a year, fish with glow-in-the-dark blood vessels, sunscreen made from watermelons, and super-cancer-fighting broccoli: those are but a few of the...
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 5:04 pm
By: Duke Cheston
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Since 1998, more than 500 children across the United States have died from heat stroke when unattended in a vehicle. Safe Kids Pitt County reminds caregivers to never leave children alone in cars.
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 @ 6:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Here in Moore County, the owners of our local thrice twice-weekly Peabody Award-winning, hallucination-inducing newspaper are the same bunch who perfected the concept of lefty media bias over decades at The Raleigh News & Observer.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2013 @ 5:39 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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