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WILLIAMSTON - Even though the deadline was extended due to COVID-19, not all Martin County local government entities have filed their 2020 year end audits.
WILLIAMSTON - Storms rolled through Martin County Tuesday evening and caused some residential damage power outages.
WILLIAMSTON - What was thought to be clarifications for retirees led to other questions during Thursday night's special called meeting of the Martin County Board of Commissioners.
WILLIAMSTON - A group of Martin County retired employees recently received a letter from the county manager that has left them panicked and with plenty of questions.
RALEIGH - Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D. gave an update Wednesday afternoon on the state’s current data, trends and vaccination progress.
SALISBURY, MD. — Perdue Farms truck driver Alvin Smith of Robersonville is celebrating a milestone – four million consecutive accident-free miles driving professionally for Perdue.
JAMESVILLE - The Martin Tyrrell Washington District Health Department is holding a vaccine event from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Saturday, May 1 at the Northeast Regional School of Biotechnology and Agriscience.
RALEIGH - The warm weather means more snakes will start to show up along trails, in the woods, crossing roads and in yards.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina will gain another seat in Congress for the next 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Monday, the result of a steadily growing population as people arrive for jobs and retirement.
Apple is expanding spending in the U.S. and announced plans Monday to build its first East Coast campus, in North Carolina.
Sports Stories
BURGAW – The Bear Grass Charter School softball team is headed to the Eastern 1A finals.
LAKE WACCAMAW – The Bear Grass Charter School softball team did it again.
BEAR GRASS – The Bear Grass Charter School girls soccer team reached the second round of the Class 1A playoffs earlier this week.
BEAR GRASS – The Bear Grass Charter School softball team is moving on in the Class 1A state playoffs.
SNOW HILL – Riverside High School’s track teams swept a nonconference meet against Greene Central Tuesday.
WILLIAMSTON – Riverside High School’s varsity baseball team opened its regular season this past week with a new head coach, Bobby Harmon – formerly the coach at Bertie High School for eight years.
SALEMBURG – Riverside High School’s boys golf team outdistanced the field and won the Class 2A East Regional by 94 shots at Lakewood Golf Club last week.
The NFL Draft just happened, their league MVP is reportedly looking to get out of Green Bay, the Carolina Hurricanes are the best team in the NHL, Russell Westbrook is still setting crazy NBA records and Dana White got shown up by a social media influencer.
Martin County has three teams in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 1A state softball and soccer playoffs, which begin tonight (Monday, May 3) at the higher-seeded teams.
CHAPEL HILL – A Bear Grass Charter School softball player recently received an honor from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association for the week of April 17.
Opinion Stories
I think it’s safe to say my brain is exhausted.
Sometimes it feels good to be right – I make a decision and things work out in my favor.
Community is defined as a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. The Oxford Dictionary also describes community as a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests and goals.
This past weekend I lost my mind and found a notebook – or should I say, someone found it for me.
Many times the toughest part of a job change is the people you leave behind. The relationships, the laughter and the comfort afforded by people you knew you could count on.
As a black conservative Republican, Mark Robinson isn’t North Carolina’s traditional lieutenant governor. But he’s squarely in the tradition of lieutenant governors bedeviling governors.
Looking back, it’s clear that North Carolina took a big step in 2008 toward becoming a Democratic state in presidential elections. It’s not clear whether we’ll keep moving in that direction.
As a kid, I did anything I could to please my grandparents. It did not matter which side of the family they were on, I wanted to make them happy.
On March 2 — the late Theodor Seuss Geisel’s 117th birthday — Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that, some time last year, it ceased publishing/licensing six of the popular author’s children’s books which “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”
I don’t know exactly what it is about baseball, but I love everything about the sport.
Feature Stories
When it comes to providing your child with a life-changing experience, there’s nothing quite like summer camp.
Nearing the end of my 60th year, I’m noticing that a lot of friends and acquaintances around my age have either retired or are counting down the days. Meanwhile, I’m fixing things so that I can take a retirement trip and never leave the farm.
Friends and neighbors from the next ridge over reported that a bear had been terrorizing the bird feeders in their neighborhood. We didn’t give it much thought before Sunday morning.
Half a century ago, the United Nations declared April 22 to be celebrated as Earth Day. Since then, various actions from international agreements to national legislation to personal habits have made literally tons of improvements.
The things that young people are doing to dress up their vehicles these days often defy logic. A huge, super-duty, built-for-heavy-lifting pickup truck with low-profile mag wheels bathed in soft-pink neon light just should not be allowed.
A new turkey hunting organization awarded $20,000 in prizes on Saturday after a daylong team event that ended with prizes and country music.
D.G. Martin is a retired lawyer, politician and university administrator and is host of UNC-TV’s “North Carolina Bookwatch” at 3 p.m. on Sundays and 5 p.m. on Tuesdays.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Celebrity zookeeper and animal TV show host Jack Hanna has been diagnosed with dementia and will retire from public life, his family said.
My mother recently went out to check her mailbox and found it stuffed with a single package. “Jammed” is a better word.