Sunday, April 29, 2012
City recycling rules to change
Changes within the city of Goldsboro recycling program this spring will have impacts on the recycling experience of customers and city employees -- and also on a locally based rehabilitation center. Recycling crews will begin collecting trays and pods...Published: Apr 29, 2012 1:50 AM Full Story
A peck of pickles ... and fun
MOUNT OLIVE -- Saturday morning began cloudy and chilly with North Carolina Pickle Festival organizers fearing the worst -- rain. The word is unspoken at festival committee meetings, which some thought might have been the reason the day remained...Published: Apr 29, 2012 1:50 AM Full Story
911 calls played in murder trial
The first caller was relatively calm. "Can y'all come to Brookside?" she said. "Where?" a 911 operator replied. "On South Slocumb Street?" "Yeah," she said. "What's wrong?" the operator asked. "Um, the man at the store's bleeding," she continued....Published: Apr 29, 2012 1:50 AM Full Story
Center Stage performing "Willy Wonka"
A man locks himself away in a candy factory filled with little orange and green people. His only goal is to make children happy with new and fantastical candy creations. All this makes for quite a bit of comedy as...Published: Apr 29, 2012 1:50 AM Full Story
City, Arts Council to restart Sundays in the Park
What was an old time tradition in Goldsboro back in the early 1960s and '70s is coming back after a several-year hiatus. Sundays in the Park will start up again May 6. The event was a staple on a lazy...Published: Apr 29, 2012 1:50 AM Full Story
Southern Bank named one of top regional banks in U.S.
MOUNT OLIVE -- Southern Bank and Trust Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern BancShares (N.C.), Inc., was recently ranked seventh among the country's 25 top-performing regional banks for 2011 by SNL Financial. The bank was eligible for the...Published: Apr 29, 2012 1:50 AM Full Story
Pedestrian killed on highway Wednesday
A Goldsboro man died late Wednesday night after being struck from behind by a car while he was walking on the roadway of U.S. 70 East. According to the Highway Patrol, Carroll Leamon Ezzell, 66, of 2201 Royall Ave....Published: Apr 29, 2012 1:50 AM Full Story
Pickle princesses revel in day in spotlight at festival
MOUNT OLIVE -- Maia Phillips, 5, likes her crown and her sash, but she likes her pickles even more. Mini Miss Maia, the winner of the five to six-year-old age group in the 12th annual North Carolina Pickle Princess...Published: Apr 29, 2012 1:50 AM Full Story
Agriculture program brings students to MOC
Alaina Airheart decided to go to school at Mount Olive College because she said it felt like home, with its smaller class sizes and friendly peers. But she was also attracted to the college because of the opportunity it...Published: Apr 29, 2012 1:50 AM Full Story
Students add tang to cancer fight
Jaila Carter scooped ice into a small plastic cup, then handed it to classmate Candra Stevens to add some lemonade. Addison Moore put in the finishing touch -- a "bendy" straw. The first-grade assembly line outside the front office...Published: Apr 29, 2012 1:50 AM Full Story
Kasell opens museum journalism exhibit
Award-winning National Public Radio broadcaster Carl Kasell was in Goldsboro Saturday for two reasons. Kasell gave a lecture at the Wayne County Museum to kick off an exhibit on journalism. And he was to meet with classmates later to...Published: Apr 29, 2012 1:50 AM Full Story
State says Tony Moore ineligible to run
Assistant News Editor With early voting well under way and the May 8 primary quickly approaching, the state Board of Elections decided Friday that state Senate candidate Tony Moore doesn't meet the residency qualifications after all. In March, the Pitt...Published: Apr 29, 2012 1:50 AM Full Story