Sunday, September 6, 2015
Wreck sends two to hospital
The driver and passenger of a red GMC Canyon pickup truck were taken to Wayne Memorial Hospital with serious injuries Friday after the truck became airborne, inverted and struck a parked truck.. The accident took place at the First...Published: Sep 6, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Police chief: Time for real solution to crime
Goldsboro interim police chief Mike West draws his hands to face. His chin rests on his clasped hands; his fingers interwoven like the lives of so many of the citizens he is sworn to protect -- the shooters, their...Published: Sep 6, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Southern Bank breaks ground on newest branch
Groundbreaking ceremonies for Southern Bank and Trust Co.'s new $2 million Goldsboro branch office were held Friday morning. Construction on the new office at the corner of East Ash Street and Spence Avenue is expected to get under way...Published: Sep 6, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Literacy Connections fundraiser includes home view
Those attending this year's Reading Between the Wines fundraiser at the home of David and Bethany Perry will definitely have a chance to stop and smell the roses. That's because a rose garden in back of the house is filled...Published: Sep 6, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Back home for a visit
To passersby on U.S. 117 Saturday afternoon, the scene at H.V. Brown Park on Elm Street may have looked like any other Labor Day weekend picnic. But the 60-plus gathered there represented generations that once occupied a segment of...Published: Sep 6, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Meet him at the fair
DUDLEY -- Additional parking, new and brighter parking lot lights and a just-completed open-sided livestock building will greet visitors to the 67th annual Wayne Regional Agricultural Fair. The fair is a little later this year -- Oct. 1 --...Published: Sep 6, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Council to vote on plan to build cemetery
Goldsboro City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a proposal by the Islamic Center of Goldsboro to build a cemetery beside its mosque at 506 Fedelon Trail. The city's planning commission has recommended council adopt an ordinance rezoning...Published: Sep 6, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Former Miss N.C. heads to pageant
Former Miss Goldsboro and Miss North Carolina Beth Stovall is heading back to the Miss America pageant this week. But not as a contestant. The 2014 state queen has been invited to sing the national anthem on the Atlantic...Published: Sep 6, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
City gets ready for its 'Week of Beaks'
Goldsboro's second annual Beak Week festival starts Friday by way of a wing cookoff among 31 professional cooking teams that will take over the now vacant parking lot across from City Hall from 6-8 p.m. What follows will be...Published: Sep 6, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story