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Friday, May 17, 2013
Jamming on Center Street
The Budweiser Clydesdales visited Center Street in Goldsboro Thursday as part of Downtown Goldsboro Development Corp.'s Center Street Jam. Each Clydesdale stands 18 hands tall. There are three teams, the East Coast hitch which is the one in Wayne...
Published: May 17, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Students chosen for Robinson trust fund scholarship
Five graduating seniors from Wayne County Public Schools have been named recipients of Emmet and Mary Robinson Trust Fund scholarships. The trust fund, set up by the couple to recognize students in the district, awards financial aid to those who...
Published: May 17, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Visual arts awards given, teacher honored
Forty-four artists from Wayne County Public Schools were recognized at this year's 2012-13 Visual Arts Awards reception held recently at Herman Park Center. Carol Frederick, an art teacher at Charles B. Aycock High School, was also named Zeno Spence...
Published: May 17, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Bypass work advances
What has, until now, been mostly behind-the-scenes preparations for construction of the eastern leg of the new U.S. 70 Goldsboro Bypass is giving way to more visible evidence that work has started. That has already been the case on the...
Published: May 16, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Cancer Society prepares for massive study in city
First Pentecostal Holiness Church will host the American Cancer Society's third cancer prevention study on Friday. The interviews with local volunteers are aimed at identifying factors in common across various racial and ethnic backgrounds of people who have not...
Published: May 16, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Suspect accused of attacking with box cutter
The Wayne County Sheriff's Office has arrested the man they say is responsible for a brutal assault April 30 in Dudley. Jesse Earl Moore, 24, 295 Paradise Lane, is in custody and being held under a $25,000 secured bond for...
Published: May 16, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
County students showcase ESL skills
Wayne County Public Schools recently held its biennial K-12 Second Language and English-as-a-Second Language Performance Competition. Hundreds of students, grades kindergarten through 12, displayed their mastery of Spanish, French, and English languages and cultures. Wayne County is the only...
Published: May 16, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Grads will turn tassels
High school graduation season kicks off this weekend, as the first round of ceremonies for private and the two newest public high schools are held. Faith Christian Academy will hold its event Friday night at 7 p.m. at the...
Published: May 15, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Deadlines looming for tax programs
The deadline is just two weeks away to apply for one of the state's property tax-relief programs. The Senior Citizen/Disability Homestead Exclusion and the Disabled Veteran Property Tax Exclusion programs provide actual tax exemptions on property. Applicants might qualify for...
Published: May 15, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Community gives input on plans for W.A. Foster
The Goldsboro Park and Recreation Department held two public input sessions Tuesday at the W.A. Foster Recreation Center to collect ideas for what the Mina Weil Park master plan should include. Mina Weil Park is the chosen site for...
Published: May 15, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Planning Board sends number of plats on to county commission
Most of the subdivision plats recommended for approval Tuesday night by the Wayne County Planning Board would have stopped with that board had county commissioners been unanimous last week in their approval of changes to the subdivision ordinance. Some...
Published: May 15, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Pikeville American Legion to raise flag over cemetery
PIKEVILLE -- Old Glory will once again fly over the town cemetery thanks to the efforts of Pikeville American Legion Post 541. The public is invited to a a flag-raising ceremony at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the cemetery when...
Published: May 15, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Skills demonstration
Goldsboro High School students and Goldsboro Fire Department cadets put on a demonstration of their skills in front of fellow students on the football field Monday afternoon. The cadets worked through four stations, showing skills and techniques that firefighters...
Published: May 15, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Middle school CTE Teacher of the Year named
A business education teacher at Grantham School has been named Wayne County Public Schools' 2012-13 Career and Technical Education Middle School Teacher of the Year. Kimberly Pigford-Parker has 21 years in education and currently teaches sixth, seventh and eighth...
Published: May 15, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Teens to face charges in 2012 murder
Accused killers Stephon Deandre Jennings, 19, and Javonta Marquez Ellis, 17, will stand trial in connection with the 2012 death of a Goldsboro man, a Wayne County grand jury decided in May. The two teens are charged with single counts...
Published: May 14, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Funeral director loses his license
The former director of funeral services for E.M. Matthews Funeral Home and Cremations, Eric Montaye Matthews, has been charged with embezzlement and obtaining property by false pretense. The charges stem from an investigation of the funeral home, which is located...
Published: May 14, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
The college hunt: It's decision time
Rosewood High School classmates Patience Hill and Kelly Grace Keen are among the fortunate high school seniors. They've known for a long time what they want to be when they grow up. "I have always felt I wanted to be...
Published: May 14, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Famed Budweiser team to make stops in county
Before the Budweiser Clydesdales kick off the summer Center Street Jam concert series in the Waynesborough House parking lot Thursday, they will make an appearance at the Walmart in Rosewood Wednesday. Eight of the Budweiser "gentle giants" will be...
Published: May 14, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
Suspect holds up former employer
A knife-wielding suspect is in Wayne County Jail under a $400,000 secured bond on armed robbery and kidnapping charges after sticking up the clerk at her former place of employment. Regina Speight, 37, of 122 Heather Ann Lane, was arrested...
Published: May 14, 2013 1:46 PM Full Story
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