Restaurants aren’t the only ones struggling to find help. Many of the state’s most vulnerable and deserving citizens are struggling to survive based on the lack of care available to them.
Restaurants aren’t the only ones struggling to find help. Many of the state’s most vulnerable and deserving citizens are struggling to survive based on the lack of care available to them.
On May 7, Colonial Pipeline Co. suffered from a cybersecurity attack that forced offline the 5,500-mile pipeline transporting fuel all along the East Coast.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Recently, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) introduced the Minority Entrepreneurship Grant Program Act. This bipartisan legislation would establish a Minority Entrepreneurship Grant Program through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to award…
Everyone is interested and concerned about the weather. However, there is no group more impacted — for better or worse — than our hard-working family farmers who produce the food and fiber necessary for us to remain a free nation.
It’s Sunshine Week across America, a time when the public’s right to see government records and attend government meetings — in order to hold government officials accountable to the people who employ them — is traditionally celebrated.
In every age, wherever people have built communities, the danger of fire has loomed on the periphery. Calm summer evenings and quiet wintery nights have been spliced by the sound of a fire station alarm.
“Better Together” is the current motto of Feeding America and the best takeaway of the year that was 2020. It is a year in which the needs and challenges of our communities rose to record-breaking heights. According to the North Carolina Department of Commerce, over 1.3 million North Carolin…
The first of the 10 Amendments — known as the Bill of Rights — adopted into the Constitution of The United States of America contain some of the most sublime assertions ever to come from mortal men.
When I first wrote about COVID-19 and its impending impact on our region in March, I shared it would take our entire community working together to manage this virus. Our efforts as a community have been impactful as many of us have social distanced, washed our hands and wore masks. Behind th…
I have been much saddened that so many of our 2020 graduates and their parents who have worked diligently to nurture them through school have been unnecessarily short-changed and required to miss the graduating experiences they so much deserve.
The media often portrays the coronavirus pandemic as an urban problem. But the North Carolina counties with the highest COVID infection rates actually have more pigs and poultry than people. There is a growing rural COVID crisis.
What will be the next shocking headline or “breaking news alert” that will introduce the next news cycle?
One of the dangers of living in a very fast paced world is the reduction in time to occasionally just stop and reflect on where we have been, where we are, where we are going, and how we are going to get there.
Our livestock farmers and those who process essential protein are wondering what tomorrow will bring to the lives of their families?
As of late our lives have been impacted by the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. People from every walk of life are struggling with their new and in some cases forced reality. There really isn’t much room to determine the level of degrees in terms of struggle, everyone is having a d…
Sometime in the mid to late 1740s, a family decided to make their new home in the Grove community, named for the nearby creek. It was a fairly new community, destined to become Kenansville.
