The fact is, Beaufort County has not had a COVID pandemic
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2020 @ 4:30 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Warren Smith, resident of Washington, North Carolina, and previously of Chicago, Illinois, and Asheville, North Carolina, began his next journey on August 10, 2020, long before expected; and, naturally, before sunrise, just as his many friends, neighbors and family would have expected.
Published: Thursday, August 13th, 2020 @ 2:20 pm
By: Announcements
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We will have Warren Smith to speak on the budget that was passed this week. Conservative commissioner candidates, Stan Deatherage and Tandy Dunn will speak.
Published: Thursday, June 14th, 2018 @ 2:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Catherine Polovitch Smith, age 95, a resident of 2637 NC Hwy 99 S. Belhaven, NC died Monday July 17, 2017 at her home
Published: Tuesday, July 18th, 2017 @ 10:00 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Vonnie Smith Tinker, age 85, a resident of 2612 Hwy. 99 South, Belhaven, died Saturday, May 21, 2016 at Vidant Beaufort in Washington.
Published: Monday, May 23rd, 2016 @ 7:11 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Deward Hoakard Smith, age 94, a resident of 910 Bonner Street, Washington, died Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at his home.
Published: Wednesday, June 10th, 2015 @ 3:56 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Polly Cora Smith Cox, age 94, a resident of 1060 Goose Creek Road, Washington, died Saturday, April 25, 2015 at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 @ 3:36 pm
By: Announcements
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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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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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Words alone seemed insufficient, so faculty and students who lived and studied this spring in the heart of Tuscany shared their experiences through the video posted above. The video illustrates a semester with Italy Intensives - East Carolina University's only year-round study abroad...
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 12:45 am
By: ECU News Services
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Why should my taxes be used to favor your friends and their private interests?
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 12:49 pm
By: Warren Smith
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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 political propaganda that surrounds the new jail has not helped to inform either the public or the county commissioners.
Published: Thursday, April 10th, 2014 @ 10:26 am
By: Warren Smith
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I recently saw a "flyer" supporting someone seeking to be a County Commissioner. He is not new to Beaufort County (claims to be having been born and raised here) but he is clearly new to politics in general and Beaufort County politics in particular.
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 1:58 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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The next time you discuss the pleas of local businessmen for taxpayer support of their endangered firms, please remember that businesses are not expected or meant to survive the competition of the market place.
Published: Sunday, February 2nd, 2014 @ 11:54 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Mrs. Lillian Warren Smith, 82, of Havelock, died Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, at CarolinaEast Medical Center.
Published: Saturday, December 28th, 2013 @ 11:49 pm
By: Announcements
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There was an interesting Editorial in the Tampa Tribune a few days ago (10/28/2013) about economic development..
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2013 @ 11:54 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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"Because the public sector does not allocate its resources based on economic criteria, it can and does continue to allocate resources to under-performing programs – so much so that poor performance becomes a rationale for additional resources."
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 9:00 am
By: Warren Smith
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The lines below from Adam Smith would argue in favor of getting artificial barriers to business out of the way of entrepreneurs.
Published: Friday, August 23rd, 2013 @ 10:34 am
By: Warren Smith
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The Rural Center is getting the axe. The waste, incompetence and tangled interests that your inane economic development schemes have forced on this county have likely lost their inspiration.
Published: Friday, July 19th, 2013 @ 10:12 am
By: Warren Smith
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We should be dedicating ourselves to recapturing the state and federal tax dollars that are taken away Beaufort County residents by sourcing grants from outside our community to help fund local needs and by cutting the regulatory burdens placed on local businesses.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 5:12 am
By: Warren Smith
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If the old owners of the Weir plant and the new prospective buyers of that building were not in perfect agreement on the price at which the property should change hands, then it was their task, as private profit seeking parties, to negotiate until the difference could be reconciled.
Published: Friday, July 5th, 2013 @ 5:28 am
By: Warren Smith
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James Edward Daniels, 87, formerly of Goldston, died Tuesday (4/30/13) at his home.
Published: Thursday, May 16th, 2013 @ 1:38 pm
By: Announcements
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I want to add my thanks for Bob Huets to that of Delma Blinson. Bob has done a great job in moving us one step closer to ending the disaster that the EDC has created with the industrial parks.
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2013 @ 2:22 am
By: Warren Smith
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On March 12, 2013, the Washington Daily News reported on a presentation Comm. Al Klemm made to the Workforce Partnership for the stated purpose of "diffusing misinformation" surrounding the proposal to move the jail to the industrial park.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 @ 6:53 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Last year on March 19, the then executive director of the Economic Development Commission presented his report for 2011 and his assurances for EDC's coming achievements in 2012.
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 10:29 pm
By: Warren Smith
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The Beaufort County Commissioners were recently approached with a request to approve a study being performed to determine if Beaufort County would benefit from a County Tourism Authority.
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2012 @ 2:38 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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