Category: Business
Home Care – A Growth Industry!
HAVELOCK – Last Friday, April 8, United Home Care cut the ribbon for its newest location at 474 US Hwy. 70 West – near Ziggy’s Cafe in a popular shopping center that serves this close-knit community. Home Care is a rapidly growing segment of the…
Intricacies of historic City Hall require pricey and unique elevator design
NEW BERN – Elected officials voted unanimously Tuesday night to finance a $4 million elevator project, which includes a host of related improvements, in order to bring this venerable building into compliance regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act. Although four area banks were contacted, only…
Massive Embezzlement
Half million $$$ scheme. Woman pleads guilty, gets 5 years
BAYBORO – Debra Annette Conway, 57, once a trusted staffer with Bay River Metropolitan Sewerage District, pleaded guilty Monday to six felony counts of Embezzlement. Conway was sentenced in Pamlico County Superior Court by Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Charles H. Henry to serve a…
Central Banks: Inflation Creators | NOT INFLATION FIGHTERS!
By Joshua R. Hendrickson | MERCATUS CENTER | George Mason University WASHINGTON, DC – Over the past 50 years, economists have spilled a lot of ink studying and debating periods of high inflation that began in the late 1960s, continued throughout the 1970s, and ended…
Beloved building inspector rides off into county sunset!
BAYBORO – Skip Lee, the Pamlico County Building Inspector for almost 30 years, received an impromptu going-away party Monday afternoon. Friends and co-workers gathered on the courthouse steps for a photo opp. Lee, seen in the foreground with his successor Ray Bennett, had a well-earned…
Deli owner expresses appreciation to community!
By Tim Jalbert ORIENTAL – I bought property in 2009 with intentions to move here. I like it because it reminds me of northern Maine where I was raised. Began building in 2016 in Shine Landing. At the time, my framers would go to lunch…
Eastern Carolina Council of Governments
ECC on the ropes
But not ready yet to throw in the towel NEW BERN – The governing board of the Eastern Carolina Council of Governments (ECC) received an independent ‘warts and all’ critique of its operations on Thursday, Jan. 13 – and the findings are not pretty. To…
Eastern Carolina Council, Part 7:,/h4> New ECC director charged with picking up the pieces
Editor’s note: The regional agency has been in disarray over the past two months, following the abrupt resignation of its law firm, Grady Quattlebaum; and, two days later the equally sudden dismissal of its executive director, Katie Bordeaux. NEW BERN – The Executive Committee of…
Eastern Carolina Council, Part 6:
Right Place at Right Time
Coincidence? Luck? Or, possibly a Plan? Handsomely paid tasks immediately fall into lap of new law firm Editor’s Note: In an email exchange with the Grady Quattlebaum law firm, this newspaper has made it clear that we are eager to print any formal statement from…
Problems surface at Eastern Carolina Council | Law firm resigns. Executive Director fired.
DOWNTOWN NEW BERN – At 10pm on Thursday, July 22, the governing board of the Eastern Carolina Council (ECC) voted unanimously to “immediately dismiss” the Council’s executive director, Katie Bordeaux. The stunning decision came after a marathon three-hour closed door session – off limits to…
Everybody Else’s History . . .
Thank you S&H Green Stamps for my ‘spinning egg’ chair!
By Lisa Rice ALLIANCE – Who remembers S&H Green Stamps? Raise your hand! Now, who still owns something that was purchased with green stamps? Raise your hand! If you don’t remember them, the concept was that the more money you spent on groceries, the more…
Walls Come Tumbling Down | Oriental bids historic building a fond farewell
(Click on images to enlarge) CORNER OF BROAD & HODGES – A fancy new brick building was surely the pride and joy of this lazy little town way back in the early 1900s – when other structures went up with more mundane products from several…
