Author: Jeff Aydelette
Groundwater tough to swallow?
RALEIGH – Here’s your chance to complain! Once every three years, state law requires regular reviews of groundwater water quality standards. Next week’s Feb. 2 public hearing is ‘virtual;’ however, written comments can also be submitted by email or through regular Postal Service channels. Last…
Prices Inch Up
News Analysis WASHINGTON, DC – Funky times, to say the least. Uncle Sam’s printing press is going crazy, flooding our locked down economy with plenty of cash. Government is spending money like a bunch of drunken sailors, and it is all being created from thin…
County bites financial bullet $3 million plus approved for water system
Pesky ‘hardness’ of aquifer likely to remain a problem All of Pamlico County – with the exception of Oriental and homes with their own wells – relies upon the Water Department. The utility operates as an ‘enterprise fund’ — a fancy term for a government-owned…
Grantsboro Piggly Wiggly closing February 28
GRANTSBORO – Billy Flockhart, who owns two Piggly Wiggly stores in Pamlico County, confronted economic reality Monday morning. “I will be closing down the Grantboro store on February 28,” wrote Flockhart, in a press release to this newspaper, just hours before meeting with staffers….
Veteran Tax Return Preparer Always Puts Clients First
WASHINGTON, N.C. – Sharper than a tack, Richard Pitts, 74, has been preparing tax returns for more than five decades. There may be someone, somewhere, somehow who has a longer track record — but no one anywhere has more concern for a still-growing roster of…
Black panther spotted
GRANTSBORO – Steve Thompson, a new resident of our area, sent me an email last week. You guessed it – Thompson had a quick story to tell: “Last night (June 30) my wife and I saw a very big black panther about to cross Hwy…
Most say panthers exist Some recall stranded circus boat
EASTERN N.C. – Last week’s front-page story, which asked for reader feedback about the possibility of black panthers in our area, generated dozens of responses. The Nov. 10 story also featured a photo taken in 2001 by Reelsboro resident, Robert ‘Cody’ Griffith, that lacked sufficient…
Could this be a black panther?
Several years ago, this reporter wrote a news story about Maureen Bivona’s encounter with what she believed to be a black panther. At the time, Bivona was riding her bike on Janeiro Road near its intersection with Kershaw Road in the southeast corner of Pamlico…
