Sunday, January 15, 2017
Sunday fire destroys trailer
A Sunday afternoon fire destroyed an abandoned trailer at 3118 Central Heights Road Lot 4. Assistant Goldsboro Fire Chief Eric Lancaster said on the scene the cause of the fire remains under investigation and is not currently ruled as being...Published: Jan 15, 2017 3:23 PM Full Story
U-Haul
U-Haul Company of North Carolina is pleased to announce that Security Mini Storage has signed on as a U-Haul neighborhood dealer to serve the Goldsboro community. Security Mini Storage at 2724 U.S. Hwy. 117 S. will offer U-Haul trucks, trailers,...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story
Scholarship recipient named
Patience A. Hill of Goldsboro was selected to receive a Duke Energy Foundation Scholarship in the amount of $3,500 for the 2016-2017 academic year. Miss Hill, a senior at Meredith College, is majoring in mathematics. Duke Energy scholarships are...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story
Student films hit silver screen at Praxis
The Praxis Film Festival returns next month, this time with the entire lineup of short- and full-length independent films being shown downtown. This is the seventh year for the event, which began at Wayne Community College and was later...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story
North Carolina dialects will be subject of Old Dobbs meeting
Members of the Old Dobbs Genealogical Society invites the public to join them on Saturday, Jan. 21 at 10:30 a.m. for their first meeting of the new year The meeting will be at the Wayne County Public Library at 1001...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story
Mount Olive open house Monday
MOUNT OLIVE-- The University of Mount Olive will hold open house on Monday, Jan. 16, for high school juniors and seniors and their parents to see first-hand what the University has to offer. Prospective students will have the opportunity to...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story
More than 2,600 drunken drivers arrested
RALEIGH - The annual Governor's Highway Safety Program's Holiday Booze It & Lose It enforcement campaign removed thousands of impaired drivers from roadways. State and local law enforcement arrested and charged 2,664 drivers for driving while impaired, of which 2,400...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story
Civil rights pioneer to visit city to give keynote address for MLK event
A civil rights pioneer engaged in the struggle for equality since the early 1970s will visit Goldsboro Monday for the 29th annual celebration of the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The Rev. Kojo Nantambu, director...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story
UPDATE: Man charged in airman's death
The Goldsboro Police Department charged a man Friday night in connection to the July 31, 2016, murder of U.S. Air Force airman Ryan Apollo Morgan, who was stationed at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base when he was killed. Bobby Mandrell...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story
Lopez Duo to perform at UMO Jan. 26
MOUNT OLIVE- The University of Mount Olive will host the Lopez Tabor Duo on Thursday, Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hazel Waters Kornegay Assembly Hall located at 207 Wooten Street in Mount Olive. The event is a part...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story
UPDATE: Kitchen fire injures two children on Murphy St.
A quick-burning fire on a kitchen counter inside 1609 Murphy St. around noon Saturday left two children injured, each with significant burns to their face and chest. Assistant Goldsboro Fire Chief James Farfour said two children, ages 8 and...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story
Federal, state and local offices to close Monday
Federal, state and local government offices, banks and post offices will be closed Monday in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. Wayne County offices including the landfill and convenience sites, libraries and senior center will be...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story
Council to discuss new Herman Park Center
The Goldsboro City Council is set to consider design plans that could one day lead to construction of a new 52,000-square-foot, two-story Herman Park Center on Ash Street. The council will consider the plans Tuesday during its regular meeting,...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story
Woes continue for Slocumb Street grocer
The owner of Brookside Mart, who is seeking to move the convenience store to a larger site on South Slocumb Street, was convicted in May for selling alcohol without an ABC permit. Owner Ismail Qandeel was charged in 2015...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story
County hires new assistant manager
Craig Honeycutt will begin work March 13 as Wayne County's new assistant manager. Honeycutt, a Duplin County native, has served as county manager for Alamance County since April 2005. The local position has been vacant for several months following...Published: Jan 15, 2017 1:45 AM Full Story