A $55.7 million expansion by the N.C. Global TransPark's anchor tenant would bring that company's total investment to less than half of what then-Gov. Mike Easley promised in 2008
Published: Thursday, December 28th, 2017 @ 4:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A quarter-century after its launch, the Global TransPark continues searching for a strategic plan that works.
Published: Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017 @ 5:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On April 3, 2017 at 5:30P, or soon thereafter, the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners (County) will hold a public hearing to receive public comments on a proposed public-private economic development partnership with the Beaufort County Committee of 100 (C-100)
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2017 @ 8:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On March 6, 2017 at 5:30P, or soon thereafter, the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners (County) will hold a public hearing to receive public comments on a proposed public-private economic development partnership with the Beaufort County Committee of 100 (C-100).
Published: Thursday, March 2nd, 2017 @ 3:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III, and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced today that TekTone® Sound & Signal Mfg., Inc. will create 35 jobs over the next five years as it expands operations in Macon County.
Published: Friday, July 1st, 2016 @ 12:44 am
By: McCrory Communications
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We seem to be like little kids these days obsessing over entertainment more than understanding. This article states is well from all sides with plenty of links to prove their point
Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 @ 12:18 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Several years ago the county was refused USDA financing for a justice center at the Minute Man site because the project's sponsors could not demonstrate sufficient community support for the proposal.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 @ 7:29 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Last week I sent you an estimate of the operation expense advantage that could be achieved by a remodeling the Washington courthouse as opposed to building in Chocowinity.
Published: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014 @ 10:32 am
By: Warren Smith
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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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Beaufort County's Board of County Commissioners voted by the slimmest of margins, by a vote of 4 to 3,
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 12:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Several weeks ago Duke Energy presented a report about the potential use of the Chocowinity Industrial Park, and the fact that what we have there is a fabulous piece of business real estate that could attract many hundreds of new jobs.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 12:45 pm
By: Keith D Kidwell
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What can I say??? It was entertaining / it was enlightening / it was comical / it was sad . . . I only have a page and I could write a book on the Beaufort County Council Meeting last night whose main topic was a possible new Law Enforcement Center.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 11:32 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Earlier last year you began acting on a proposal to fund a new jail at the Washington Industrial Park.
Published: Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 @ 5:28 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Here is my line of thinking.
Published: Thursday, July 24th, 2014 @ 11:18 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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In the ongoing saga of local government over-reach with a pinch of politician disdain for the democratic process of allowing the electorate to participate in a general obligation bond, Chocowinity gets sued by its citizens..
Published: Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 @ 8:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lying is a tough subject for most of us to talk about. The absolute, unvarnished truth can cause a lot of trouble. All of us are guilty, at times, of not telling the whole truth.
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 12:01 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The Chocowinity Town Board will hold the fate of a 15% tax increase for all taxpayers and renters in Beaufort County in its hands when it meets Tuesday (6-3-14).
Published: Saturday, May 31st, 2014 @ 1:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Chocowinity Town Board Tuesday night (5-6-14) took a major step forward toward allowing a jail to be built in the Chocowinity Industrial Park.
Published: Friday, May 9th, 2014 @ 10:48 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Duke Energy has selected five North Carolina properties for participation in its 2014 Site Readiness Program to prepare the properties for potential industrial development.
Published: Monday, April 21st, 2014 @ 9:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I spoke at the March 10, 2014 County Commissioner's to present what I learned by talking to staff in a number of jails in eastern North Carolina. The message I delivered to the Commissioners, based on my research, is that there is in fact an excess of jail beds in counties near Beaufort County.
Published: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 @ 6:05 pm
By: Donald Dixon
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