Monthly Archives: January 2023
A word from Consulting Hut, as tax season approaches!
ORIENTAL – Are you ready? We are!! After 15 years working as accountants for CPA firms, Intuit (developer of QuickBooks), non-profits, and others, Teresa and TJ Bodford now have a practice of our own – Consulting Hut. Many thanks to Catherine of Catherine’s accounting, and to many of her wonderful clients, whom we have already met:
“As the owner of Catherine’s Accounting, I looked for the type professionals I thought would serve our community well and love the clients and this business as much as I have over the years. I am happy to say that Teresa and TJ with Consulting Hut Tax Se…
Newsmax cut-off by ‘woke’ AT&T
At midnight Tuesday, DirecTV (owned by AT&T) cut Newsmax’s signal, immediately shutting the network off from more than 13 million customers of the satellite service. This is the second time in the past year AT&T has moved to cancel a conservative channel, with DirecTV deplatforming OAN (One America News) in April.
“This is a blatant act of political discrimination and censorship against Newsmax,” said Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax
Despite Newsmax being the fourth highest-rated cable news channel in the nation — a Top 20 cable news channel overall…
Home-Schoolers Expose Public School Flaws
News Analysis
CLASSROOM – Like most of us, I’ve become more and more aware of flaws in our public school education. The speed of deterioration has increased, and parents’ eyes and other citizens’ eyes have been opened, and as a result, many parents and other concerned citizens ran for seats on Boards of Education recently, and many of them won! Now, they’ve begun the Herculean task of “mucking out the stables” that are our public schools.
Sometimes the very personal can be a floodlight on the universal. With that in mind, let me tell you a tale of the scho…
Child Porn on Museum’s Computer Sends Former Employee to Prison
TOWN OF BEAUFORT – District Attorney Scott Thomas announced that David Duane Moore, age 67, of Marshallberg was sentenced to a minimum of 69 months up to 84 months in prison, plus five years of post-release supervision, after pleading guilty as charged in Carteret County Superior Court last week to sixteen counts of Second Degree Sexual Exploitation of a Minor for possessing child sex abuse material.
Child sex abuse material is the photographic or video evidence of a criminal sexual act against infants, children, or young people. Moore will also be required to register with the North Caroli…
Missing / Runaway – Pamlico County
UPDATE: LONG has been located safe
The Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office needs assistance locating Allen Henry Long, 16 years of age W/M 6’ 1” approximately 160 lbs.
Long was last seen in Bayboro on January 19,2023. If anyone has any information on his whereabouts please contact the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office at 252-745-3101…
Queen of Steamy Suspense | Author cranks out 12 novels in five years!
AURORA – Sherri Lupton Hollister’s queen credentials are perfectly in tact, based upon the success of her prior tomes, which she describes as “Steamy Small Town Romantic Suspense.” I recently emailed this congenial author some questions about her career. And, I believe County Compass readers will thoroughly enjoy her responses:
Q: Sherri, looking back, can you pinpoint the time and inspiration when you knew that you
would become a writer? Were you self-motivated or did a teacher, parent, friend play a role?
A: I fell in love with books before I ever learned to read. My mother was a big read…
Sheriff’s Office warns of “missed jury duty” scam calls
The Carteret County Sheriff’s Office is warning citizens about a recent imposter scam.
This evening residents of Carteret County are reporting fake phone calls from a person representing themselves as a Carteret County deputy sheriff. Citizens are reporting attempts to elicit money claiming the person has missed jury duty.
The Sheriff’s Office would like to remind the public a deputy will never call you and request money by phone or ask you to provide banking information.
Never give out your personal banking information, provide a credit or debit card number, wire money, or purchase gift…
Iron Horsemen donate to Disabled Vets
The Eastern Carolina Iron Horsemen Motorcycle Club made a Donation of $1590 to the Pamlico County Disabled American Veterans (DAV), Chapter 93, of Pamlico County. The donations were raised from a December 10th Fundraiser at M&Ms Restaurant in Oriental. Members of the club came from 16 states and as far away as Colorado, Massachusetts and Florida to attend the fund raiser. This donation will be partly used to help operate the DAV van, parked by the Courthouse in Bayboro, to take veterans to the Veterans Administration Clinics in Greenville, Morehead City and the Hospital in Durham. …
‘Charity Lift’ at Champion nets mega donations for non-profits
New Year’s Eve 2022:
NAME OF LIFTERS & CHARITY SUPPORTED
Carla Byrnes & Carol Wynne – Rock Steady Boxing for Parkinson’s
Linda McLean, Patrick Weimann, Griffon Atchison – PAWS
Gail Good – Heartworks
Cat Johnson – Pamlico Sheriff’s Department
Cole Johnson – Michael Spain Foundation
Steven Eric – Pamlico Senior Services for the Aged
Ben Wynne – Pamlico Girls on the Run & Pamlico County Community Foundation…
Suspect Arrested in Hunting Dog Shootings
NC General Statute 14-360(b) – If any person shall maliciously torture, mutilate, maim, cruelly beat, disfigure, poison, or kill, or cause or procure to be tortured, mutilated, maimed, cruelly beaten, disfigured, poisoned, or killed, any animal, every such offender shall for every such offense be guilty of a Class H felony.
Investigators with the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Department, in conjunction with law enforcement officers from the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, filed felony charges Wednesday morning against Travis Leonard Rolan, age 38, who is accused of New Ye…
