Sunday, September 27, 2015
Sports complex facing obstacle
As the city moves toward signing a 20-year lease agreement with the U.S. Air Force for the P-4 Initiative Multi-Sports Complex, there are several terms that could complicate the arrangement -- specifically what happens when the lease expires. City...Published: Sep 27, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Blessed
Call it a course of miracles. From diagnosis to doctor to transplant to recovery, Donna and Jerry Phillips saw the chain of coincidences, chance meetings and connections that led them to not just a story of illness, hope and...Published: Sep 27, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Elections offficials quash concerns
The Wayne County Board of Elections said Wednesday that each candidate who has filed for the upcoming municipal races has complied 100 percent with state election laws. Questions concerning the names and addresses of some of the candidates on...Published: Sep 27, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Civic group is disbanding, but donates to others first
The Goldsboro Civitan Club Friday drew to a close 75 years of community service, but not before one more act of helping others -- giving out $9,500 to three local groups. Chartered in November 1940, the club, which once...Published: Sep 27, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Bomb threat
A bomb threat against Meadow Lane Elementary School forced an evacuation of students and faculty Friday afternoon. The scare led to traffic being blocked off on East Ash Street in front of the two schools, preventing parents and buses...Published: Sep 27, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Leading the field
Wayne Community College has been chosen as one of 11 community colleges in the country to provide training for Chrysler technicians. FCA US, or the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles family of companies, and NC3, National Coalition of Certification Centers, made...Published: Sep 27, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
University of Mount Olive to host fall 'Prism Concert' next month
MOUNT OLIVE -- The University of Mount Olive department of music will hold a Prism Concert on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hazel Waters Kornegay Assembly Hall, 207 Wooten St. A Prism concert is an interactive...Published: Sep 27, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Wayne County Public Schools awarded $10,000 grant
Wayne County Public Schools has received a $10,000 grant from America's Farmers Grow Rural Education, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund. The district will use the money to purchase LEGO education kits, which will be used in all grades at...Published: Sep 27, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
VFW post looking for vets' graves
PIKEVILLE -- American Legion Post 541 members are asking for help from the African-American community in identifying the grave sites of veterans for the post's Wreaths Across America program. The post is preparing to launch its third year in the...Published: Sep 27, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Local couple says traffic, security and standing worth it to see pope
You may have seen the pope on TV when he paid a visit to the White House and spoke before Congress on Thursday. But here's what it was like in the cheap seats out on the west lawn, where...Published: Sep 27, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Dozens of tractors and operators turn up for local cancer fundraiser
MOUNT OLIVE -- Nearly 50 tractors both old and new that are normally called on for work to help feed the world were called on Saturday to, instead, help work toward a cure for cancer. And almost as if...Published: Sep 27, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
Local resident trying to raise dyslexia awareness
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, and Goldsboro resident Chasity Phillips is trying to get the word out that it's a real problem that affects one in five people. The licensed counselor has a dyslexic daughter, 11-year-old Mabry, who was diagnosed...Published: Sep 27, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story
F-86 placement delayed ... again
The relocation of the city's F-86 Sabre fighter jet from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base to behind the traffic circle on East Ash Street has been delayed an additional week. The new target date for the plane to be...Published: Sep 27, 2015 1:50 AM Full Story