Monthly Archives: January 2023
Hunting Dogs Shot while ‘Running Deer’
Incident leads to tense confrontation between suspect & hunters
Editor’s note: The policy of this newspaper is not to identify suspects in a potential criminal case until formal charges have been filed.
UPPER NECK ROAD NEAR MESIC – Four ‘Walker Hounds’ were apparently shot Saturday morning. Two died immediately. A third, named “Tiny” – owned by hunter John Paul Jones – hung on until 1am Sunday when she was euthanized at a Havelock veterinarian facility.
“She made it to a ‘cut down’ area across the road, where she just collapsed,” said Jones. “We had hopes on her. She was raised from a pupp…
“Greatest City in USA,” proclaims New Bern Mayor
By Jeff Odham , Mayor
CITY OF NEW BERN – For the last five years, New Bern has celebrated bringing in a new year by dropping a lighted bear from the corner of City Hall. This event started from a simple Facebook post I made in 2016. The community got engaged offering their thoughts on what a new year’s event could look like for our city. Those ideas, along with financial support from our sponsors, and a ton of work by our city staff, has generated an annual event attended by thousands of patrons in downtown New Bern.
During my “almost midnight speech” on Saturday evening, I talked about OPPORTUNITY. Tha…
China & India flunk ‘Carbon Emissions 101’
By Craig Welling
Once upon a time some of the EXPERTS thought the world was flat. And currently many EXPERTS say that continued Burning of Fossil Fuels could lead to our extinction. Here is the scientific explanation:
BFF (burning of fossil fuels) creates CE (carbon emissions), which become GG (greenhouse gases). Greenhouses gasses trap solar energy, which causes GW (global warming). And global warming will lead to extinction of species that do not adapt to the CC (climate change) that occurs.
Those of us alive today will not live long enough to know whether future Climate Change will lead to…
Happy New Year, Austin Levi
BAYBORO – Seen here with his father Josh during the recent Christmas parade, we discovered that Austin Levi may well bethe area’s youngest reader of the County Compass Newspaper. That qualifies as good news as our nation embarks upon thecountdown to 2023! Happy New Year everyone!…
