The County Compass

RALEIGH – North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell released a report this week that shows extreme variations in hospital prices, huge price markups from Medicare rates, and widespread failures in price transparency. Trained as a certified public accountant, Folwell pulled…

On 09/18/2023, Carteret County deputies arrested William Blake Perkins, 31, of Collins Rhue Rd, Peletier following the January 2023 overdose death of Joshua Adams of Cedar Point. Perkins was identified by detectives as having sold the methamphetamines laced with fentanyl…

On Wednesday, September 13, 2023, The Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office arrested Michael Shawn Mayo, 30 of Havelock on an outstanding warrant for larceny and an additional warrant for failing to appear in court. Mayo was located and arrested after Pamlico…

On Friday, September 1, 2023, as part of an ongoing narcotics enforcement operation, The Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant on the residence of Anthony Cordell Curtis of Vandemere, NC following a three-month investigation related to the sale…

——— PRO ——— By Vicki Carlisle I’ve lived in this county all of my life, and I remember a time back in the late 60s or maybe early 70s (I think) that bridging the Neuse was a source of contention…

Four planned for five-mile stretch in James City NEW BERN – A new traffic pattern will be implemented later this week as part of the improvements to U.S. 70 and surrounding roadways in James City. On Friday afternoon, Sept. 8, the project’s first…

On Saturday, September 2, 2023, the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office Communications Center received a 911 call about a possible kidnapping and domestic violence situation from a concerned citizen at convenience store in Grantsboro, NC. When Deputies arrived on scene, they…

Detectives with the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office and the Morehead City Police Department arrested Perry Nordean Fisher Jr, 38, of 446 Nine Foot Rd, Newport following a month-long drug investigation. On 08/29/2023 a traffic stop was conducted on Fisher following…

Michael Cole | Chocowinity, NC Recently, Rep. Murphy asked for feedback from his constituents about the Biden Administration’s proposed highly restrictive emission standards for gas powered vehicles. Here is one response from Michael Cole of Chocowinity:  This is without a…

The H.L. Hunley Traveling Exhibit arrives at New Bern’s Union Point Park for a Sept. 2 & 3 showing. The first combat submarine in history to sink an enemy warship, the Civil War-era Hunley was constructed in Mobile, Alabama in…

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