Author: The County Compass

STAFF REPORTS Tuesday night New Bern elected officials – known as the Board of Aldermen – deliberated the initial zoning of two parcels recently annexed into the city limits. The property owner expressed a desire to build four homes on one parcel (750 Highway 55…

MERRITT – Trent Original Free Will Baptist Church invites you, your friends, and your family to its popular Homecoming Celebration, now in its 136th Year. See below for complete details. Be sure to arrive by 10:30am when ‘Special Singing’ happens. From left, Raymond Parson, James…

This is a wild 40-plus minutes from an actual event that happened July 4th of this year in Alaska. You will be glued to your video screen the entire time. Many thanks to Compass reader Gordon Allison for this Alert!!

Peletah Ministries church family, with their pastor, Dr. Dawn Baldwin Gibson, warmly welcomes the community to the ‘Fifth Sunday Fire Revival’ this Sunday, August 31st at 4:27 p.m. at 1912D Trent Blvd., New Bern. Pastor Glenwood Horton, Lady Quisha Horton, and the Kingdom Life Community…

By Donald Bryson, CEO | John Locke Foundation Duke Energy will not pursue offshore wind energy generation off the coast of North Carolina. The decision was made following an independent evaluation demonstrating that offshore wind is not cost-effective, which was recently presented to the North…

Maybe now an appointment for that overdue renewal is possible RALEIGH – Forty new driver license examiner positions have been made possible by a mini-budget signed into law by Governor Josh Stein this month. These roles aim to shorten lines and wait times at driver…

DYLAN, age 13, a rising 9th grader, traveled to Oriental from Illinois with his mom, Lori and his dad, James to “Catch his Dream.” Dylan was born with a congenital heart defect that has required many surgeries. The CATCH-A-DREAM Foundation provided this opportunity to Dylan….

Editor’s note: Proposed state legislation known as House Bill 442 started out as a Four-Year Pilot Program to improve recreational fishing for flounder and red snapper. However, a sudden amendment adopted Tuesday goes far afield by attempting to impose new restrictions on commercial fishing, including…

  Glenn Skinner, Executive Director North Carolina Fisheries Association: “The NCFA is very encouraged by President Trump’s Executive Order and the recognition of the importance of domestic seafood production. We hope these federal directives will increase access and markets that have been lost in recent…

EDITORS NOTE: The following is ‘Open the Books’ CEO John Hart’s testimony presented Tuesday, April 8 to the the House DOGE Subcommittee. The hearing is called “Federal Foreclosure: Reducing the Federal Real Estate Portfolio.” Hart was accompanied by David Marroni, the acting director for physical…

By C. Jarrett Dieterle | Guest Post | Discourse Magazine Less than a week into his second term, President Donald J. Trump vowed from the stage of a presidential rally in Nevada that “We’re gonna get it for you—no tax on tips.” He reiterated the…

By Malachi Johnson Editor’s note: Malachi Johnson is a 15-year-old, Jacksonville, NC native. His dad is the pastor of Temple Baptist Church in Jacksonville. For the past few years, Malachi has been interested in free-market economics and libertarian political philosophy. He is home-schooled, and is…