Month: July 2024

RIVER DUNES – Healing Dragons of Charlotte is a competitive dragon boat team made of breast cancer survivors and supporters. The team was formed initially of breast cancer survivors to participate in the Charlotte Asian Festival and Dragon Boat Race, because everyone loved it so…

Editor’s note: Bids for this project will be opened Thursday, July 25. An open-to-the-public meeting of the Pamlico County Commission and the Board of Education is set for 5pm on Tuesday, July 30, at the school system administrative office in Bayboro. We thank Mr. Allison…

On Wednesday, July 17, 2024, deputies of the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at the residence of Roger Benajmin Voliva 47, at his Upper Neck Road residence in the Mesic community of Pamlico County. The warrant was executed as part of an…

ORIENTAL – Family-owned small businesses are the backbone of America, especially when second generation owners carry on customer relationships originally forged by their fathers. Brantley Norman, Jr. – along with his mother, daughter, and plenty of family members — now handles the reins of Brantley’s…

By Carl Mischka | NC GOP Hall of Fame MILWAUKEE – Wow, as a first time delegate attendee at the Republican National Convention, I am pleased to report that it is all I expected and hoped for — an experience I can now cross off…

BAYBORO – Pamlico County Schools released a request for bids on June 27, 2024 for construction of a 6th thru 12th grades school. The bids will be opened in public at the current high school auditorium on Thursday, July 27 at 2pm. This article details…

By Katie Shorter | Pamlico Small Business Center After retiring from a 30-year career in the child care industry – from hands-on daily care to owning and managing 3 child care centers in Eastern North Carolina – Pamlico County’s Kim Trudo retreated to Whispering Creek…

By Doug Cross | Guest Commentary When the Coastal Conservation Association was pushing House Bill 1713 in June of 2010, I guarantee you they never, ever thought the law would one day affect the recreational fishing interests in North Carolina like it has now. You…

AURORA – Have you ever wanted to experience a book in more ways than just reading it? Have you ever thought about the tastes inspired by the book’s location or the characters in the book? Local author, Sherri Lupton Hollister will host an Author Tea…

On Thursday, December 7, 2023, Pamlico County Sheriff’s deputies and Pamlico County EMS responded to a report of an unresponsive individual that had been located on a commercial fishing vessel docked at Garland Fulcher’s Seafood in Oriental, NC. Chris Eugene Boyd, 60, of Grantsboro, NC…

Hubert, NC – June 29, 2024: The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office successfully apprehended John Matthew Nigh, 36, of New Bern, a suspect with multiple pending felony charges, after he fired shots at deputies during an arrest operation. Earlier in the evening, Deputy Barcenas received a…

By Anne Hopkins NEW BERN – Monday, June 24, at a local car-wash, two men wearing black “YOUR VOTE COUNTS” tee shirts, each carrying clipboards, were approaching and questioning customers who were in the vacuuming area. One lady reported the men asked her if she…