Eddie Fitzgerald
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LCC receives $200,000 donation
Lenoir Community College EMS faculty and students received a $200,000 donation this week from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. Rusty Hunt, LCC president met with legislators Wednesday and accepted the donation. LCC is one of five colleges across the state to be awarded the funds to help fight the opioid epidemic. “This is a wonderful opportunity to support our EMS faculty and… → Read More
Queen Street spoutting new trees
Trees are sprouting up on Queen Street sidewalks as workers move into their fifth week of a major streetscaping project downtown. Charles Hughes, co-owner along with this wife, Wanda, of Hughes Construction of LaGrange, said his crews have nearly completed the demolition of sidewalks from Springhill Street to King Street. Now they are starting to plant the first of 113 high beam overcup oak… → Read More
Transportation Day at LCC piques interest in future auto techs
High school students from Lenoir, Greene and Jones counties received hands-on training in the automotive industry Wednesday at Lenoir Community College → Read More
Lenoir County Public Schools, USDA feeds multitude of summer camp youths
In a couple of months, youths throughout the county will get a jump on their education and having fun at summer camps involving everything from science to → Read More
Kinston's presistence pays off for Lawrence Heights
After years of attempting sewer and water upgrades in the Lawrence Heights subdivision the city’s persistence in seeking funding has paid off after recently being awarded a $2 million Community Development Block Grant. Steve Miller, assistant director of Public Services, said with the CDBG grant that will reduce the debt on the loan of the project now gives the city all the funding it needs to… → Read More
Kinston leaders take first crack at $100 million budget
Kinston City Council will hold its annual retreat Monday to start fine tuning the more than $100 million budget it takes to run the city. Last fiscal → Read More
Masked man robs sweepstakes business
A lone, masked man walked into Blue Wall Sweepstakes in Lenoir County near the Greene County line Wednesday night and robbed the business at gunpoint. → Read More
New Kinston firefighters sworn in, veterans promoted
Kinston Fire and Rescue grew in strength Wednesday evening as 11 new firefighters were officially sworn in by Mayor Don Hardy. But before they were sworn in, two firefighter driver operators of fire engines, Ronald Fritter and Antwan Hardy, were promoted to the rank of fire control specialist II; and four personnel were promoted to captain: David Young, Jeremy Pearson, Tyler Foyles and Jason… → Read More
Jones County school libraries get grants to rebuild post-Florence
After Jones County was devastated last September by Hurricane Florence a resourceful media specialist at Jones Senior High School began looking for ways → Read More
Jones County school libraries get grants to rebuild post-Florence
After Jones County was devastated last September by Hurricane Florence a resourceful media specialist at Jones Senior High School began looking for ways → Read More
Jones County school libraries get grants to rebuild post-Florence
After Jones County was devastated last September by Hurricane Florence a resourceful media specialist at Jones Senior High School began looking for ways → Read More
Science Olympiad teams represented by students from nine elementary schools
Elementary students from all of the county converged on the Kinston High School campus Saturday morning to learn about everything from being a backyard → Read More
Jay Carraway to head lead James Sprunt Community College
Jay Carraway, vice president of Continuing Education at Lenoir Community College, has been chosen as the next president of James Sprunt Community College. → Read More
Jay Carraway to head lead James Sprunt Community College
Jay Carraway, vice president of Continuing Education at Lenoir Community College, has been chosen as the next president of James Sprunt Community College. → Read More
Lenoir County school bus drivers hit the rodeo circuit
Thelonious Ford eased around the obstacle course behind the Vernon Park Mall Friday morning in a yellow Lenoir County Public Schools bus making it look → Read More
LCC Job Fair draws more than 1,000 job seekers
More than 100 businesses and agencies from all over North Carolina filled the Lenoir Community College Student Center Wednesday to tap into a potential → Read More
City may consider management group for waterpark
In an effort to make sure Lions Water Adventure at the Kinston Community Center is run safely, meets the needs of the community and is profitable, city → Read More
Magic Mile: It's getting busy with work on Queen Street
With spring only three and half weeks away, construction work is picking up in downtown Kinston. The much anticipated revitalizing of Queen Street that has been in the works for years began Monday with a demolition project. Adam Short, Kinston city planner, said crews of the contractor, Charles Hughes Construction, were starting with the demolition work at the southern portion of Queen Street.… → Read More
Young family displaced by early morning fire
A young Kinston family was displaced Tuesday morning after a fire swept through their house on Harding Avenue. Thick, gray smoke rolled out of a small, green house at 504 Harding Ave. as Kinston Firefighters arrived on the scene. Flames were visible, climbing out of the roof a little after 7 a.m. and more flames could be seen in the back room of the one-story structure. Firefighters quickly… → Read More
Walter Jones left a lot of memories
About midday, Bonnie K. Allen circled two parking lots and finally decided to park on the street in the last available space close to St. Peter Catholic → Read More