March 18, 2023 | By The County Compass

BATH, NC —“Join us to keep our party strong and moving in the right direction!” encourages GOP County Chair, Carolyn Garris. All Republicans in Beaufort County, registered as of January 31, 2023, are called to meet on Saturday, March 25, 2023, at Southern Acres in Bath, according to the Call to Meeting issued by Garris. Precincts will meet individually followed by the county convention. Southern Acres is located at 3889 NC Hwy 92 E, Bath.
“Involvement in your local precinct (where you live and vote) is the first step to ‘Building Stronger Foundations!’” says Garris. If you haven’t been involv…
March 17, 2023 | By The County Compass

ZELP – Zero Emissions Livestock Project
Cows belch methane
Mask converts to carbon dioxide
Farmers claim environment-friendly meat
Zelp benefits by selling ‘carbon offset credits’
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Carteret County receives monetary donation to benefit local foster children
March 16, 2023 | By Press Release

CARTERET COUNTY, NC (March 16, 2023) – This week, Jim Dandy Convenience Stores and Coca-Cola Consolidated presented a $5,000 donation to Carteret County Department of Social Services (DSS) to support local foster care programs. Executives of Jim Dandy and Coca-Cola Consolidated gathered at the Jim Dandy store in Newport to present the donation check to officials from Carteret County DSS.
“It is strong community partnerships like this that allow us to invest in the lives of our children in foster care,” said Kody Krebs, child welfare program manager with DSS. “Each year, this generous con…
Beaufort County Sheriff Deparment to establish Sub-Station in Aurora
March 12, 2023 | By Press Release

Sheriff Scott Hammonds is excited to announce the implementation of monthly Town Hall Meetings throughout Beaufort County beginning in March 2023.
The purpose of these meetings is to give the residents of Beaufort County an opportunity to meet with Sheriff Hammonds and receive valuable information regarding services provided by the Sheriff’s Office.
This will also afford residents the opportunity to ask questions and cover any issues they may have in their communities.
Anyone interested in attending a Town Hall Meeting can choose from the following dates and locations listed below.
A…
LIGHTS OUT!
Grid sitting duck for EMP attack
March 10, 2023 | By Special to the County Compass

By Gary Timco
USA – Every U.S. citizen is literally on ‘life support’ by being plugged into our nation’s electricity grid. If one of our adversaries decides to sabotage the grid with an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) attack, everything necessary to sustain our human population stops.
There are 16 critical infrastructure systems that depend on reliable energy, which include food, transportation, fuel, medical (i.e. hospitals) financial and communications. All these systems are plugged into the grid. Even our Military/Defense industry relies on the same grid as the civilian population.…
Part 3 of Three: How America Took Out Nord Stream Pipeline
March 6, 2023 | By Special to the County Compass

By Seymour Hersh
Editor’s note: Mr. Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize winner. He is a journalist of impeccable credentials, known for breaking many stories over the course of his long career. He now writes for the news website substack.com. We are indebted to him for this amazing multi-part story.
PLANNING
BALTIC SEA – In December of 2021, two months before the first Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan convened a meeting of a newly formed task force—men and women from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the State and Treasury Departments—and asked for recomm…
StarLab Planetarium coming to Carteret County
March 2, 2023 | By Press Release

CARTERET COUNTY, NC (March 2, 2023) – Carteret County Public Library System is hosting the StarLab mobile planetarium during the months of March and April.
StarLab is an inflatable, portable planetarium that uses a projector to display images on the inside of the dome. It is used as an interactive tool geared towards astronomy and produces a real-life experience for all ages. Children can engage in mathematics, science, and technology that will spark their curiosity about our universe.
“All of the children are excited about this program and StarLab will serve as a way to bring space right up…
Cocaine Traffickers Busted
March 1, 2023 | By Press Release

In the fall of 2022 Carteret County Sheriff’s Office and Morehead City Police Department Drug Detectives received information that Kuwain Omar Greene was selling controlled substances in Carteret County. Detectives were able to conduct several controlled purchases of cocaine from Kuwain Greene. During the investigation detectives were able to establish Milton Devon Williams as Greene’s source of supply. Detectives then conducted controlled purchases from Kuwain Greene and Milton Williams.
This past Saturday February 25th members of the Carteret and Craven County Sheriff’s Off…
Law enforcement to share details on drug trafficking arrests
February 28, 2023 | By Press Release

CARTERET COUNTY, NC – Carteret County Sheriff Asa Buck, along with Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes and District Attorney Scott Thomas will be hosting a press conference, Wednesday March 1st, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. at the Carteret County Courthouse to announce the results of a multi-agency operation targeting two drug traffickers.
Who: Carteret County Sheriff Asa Buck, Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes, and District Attorney Scott
Thomas
What: Law enforcement officials announcing the results of a multi-agency operation resulting in the arrest
of two drug traffickers.
Where: Carteret C…
Part 2 of Three: How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
February 27, 2023 | By Special to the County Compass
By Seymour Hersh
Editor’s note: Mr. Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize winner. He is a journalist of impeccable credentials, known for breaking many stories over the course of his long career. He now writes for the news website substack.com. We are indebted to him for this amazing multi-part story.
BALTIC SEA – From its earliest days, Nord Stream 1 was seen by Washington and its anti-Russian NATO partners as a threat to western dominance. The holding company behind it, Nord Stream AG, incorporated in Switzerland in 2005 in partnership with Gazprom, a publicly traded Russian company producing enormo…