Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Mobile home parks exempted from fee
Wayne County mobile home park owners have been exempted, at least for this year, from paying the county's $45 convenience (recycling) site fee -- a move that will create a $150,000 dent in the county budget. The vote Tuesday by...Published: Nov 2, 2011 1:46 PM Full Story
WCC aviation program open house Friday
The aviation systems technology program at Wayne Community College will celebrate its facilities renovation with an open house Friday at the Wayne Executive Jetport north of Goldsboro. The event, from 10 a.m. until noon, will include tours and demonstrations...Published: Nov 2, 2011 1:46 PM Full Story
Spaghetti for Kennedy
A spaghetti supper is being planned Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Northeast Elementary School cafeteria to raise funds for the Deans' medical expenses. The event will include a raffle and live auction. Tickets are $7, with...Published: Nov 2, 2011 1:46 PM Full Story
King elected as board officer for League of Municipalities
Goldsboro Mayor Al King was elected second vice president of the N.C. League of Municipalities Board of Directors during its annual conference held Oct. 22-25 at the Raleigh Convention Center. He will serve a one-year term. Nearly 1,200 municipal...Published: Nov 2, 2011 1:46 PM Full Story
Cheering for Kennedy
One minute 7-year-old Kennedy Dean was playing on the playground at Northeast Elementary with other second-graders at her school. Seconds later, she was suffering from what would later be diagnosed as a brain hemorrhage. Virtually each day since that...Published: Nov 2, 2011 1:46 PM Full Story
County approves grant match
It will take Wayne County less than two years to recoup the $157,400 it will provide as a local match for Cooper Standard Automotive to receive a $157,400 One North Carolina Fund grant and the benefits after that "will be...Published: Nov 2, 2011 1:46 PM Full Story
Boy Scouts focus on breast cancer awareness
Boy Scout Troop 8, sponsored by New Hope United Methodist Church, conducted a breast cancer awareness event on Oct. 25 for the troop's "scouting family." The event was in collaboration with the American Cancer Society and a breast cancer...Published: Nov 2, 2011 1:46 PM Full Story
Public record
Man shot in leg A 44-year-old Goldsboro man was shot multiple times in his upper leg around 1 a.m. this morning. Goldsboro police responded to the shooting of Tyrone Lee Hicklin in the 400 block of North Kornegay Street, where...Published: Nov 2, 2011 1:46 PM Full Story
Building, not just selling
Members of the Goldsboro Wayne County Association of Realtors were helping put the finishing touches on a Habitat home on Ben Brewington Court that will be dedicated Saturday. On Thursday, they are scheduled to help work on a home...Published: Nov 2, 2011 1:46 PM Full Story