Goldsboro News-Argus | News: September 13, 2004 Archives

Welcome home

News-Argus/Kaye Nesbit Friends and family members welcomed this morning about 150 airmen from the 4th Maintenance Group at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. They were returning from a four-month deployment to Qatar. For more information see 150 Airmen return...

150 Airmen return to hugs and kisses

The rising sun produced a pink sky that served as a colorful backdrop to the aircraft that landed this morning at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. Inside the civilian aircraft were about 150 airmen, mostly from the 4th Maintenance Group,...

Waterway clean up set for next month

While Wayne County residents are cleaning the roadsides in Saturday's Litter Sweep, another sweep is being planned for the county. The 2004 Big Sweep will be held Oct. 2 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., when residents put on their...

Goldsboro resident missing in Western N.C. waterfall area

There has been a correction to this story: A series of articles on a man from Goldsboro who is missing in western North Carolina gave an incorrect spelling of the name of a woman whose body was found. The correct...

New demolition ordinance set for review by city council

An ordinance aimed at preventing the deterioration of buildings in downtown Goldsboro is ready for the review by the full City Council. The ordinance called "Demolition by Neglect" has been streamlined by the city's Law and Finance Committee to make...

Baseball clinic to be held Saturday

Baseball coaches and parents will join with children Saturday to help fight child abuse and neglect in Wayne County during the third annual Take Me Out to the Ballgame clinic. It will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at...

Public records

Bank robber sentenced A 53-year-old man from Goldsboro has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison after being convicted of robbing a Goldsboro bank last year. Matthew Smith of New Hope Road was arrested by Goldsboro police...

OPINION -- Premature obituary

As this is written we all are sweating out Hurricane Ivan. It is a monster. And Florida already has had more than its share of misery this season. Part of our own state could be in the projected path. Each...