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The Clayton Chamber of Commerce has selected Melissa Bolen a teacher at Cooper Elementary School as their Super Star Teacher for the month of January. Bolen is a fourth grade teacher.  Super Star teachers are selected for their excellence in…

Johnston County Schools saw a decrease in the dropout rate last year, the fifth consecutive year fewer students have left school. The countywide dropout rate fell from 1.99 percent in 2014-15 to 1.67 percent in 2015-16.  That is below the…

In a split vote, the Selma Town Council emerged from closed session this week and voted to give their outgoing town manager a pay hike. Jon Barlow will be retiring from the Town of Selma no later than December 31st.…

Thanks to a JoCoReport.com viewer, Selma Police had apprehended a man wanted for thefts at the Selma ABC store and for threatening a store employee during one of the incidents. An anonymous tip from a viewer helped police identify Travon Rajah…

Four individuals were appointed to three Town of Smithfield advisory boards recently. Michael Johnson of South Crescent Drive was reappointed to the Smithfield Board of Adjustment. Robbie Parker of River Birch Court was reappointed to the Parks and Recreation Advisory…

Megan Mustgrave, a junior at Neuse Charter School in Smithfield, won first place All Around in the North Carolina High School Gymnastics State Championships with a score of 38.2. She also placed first on the floor. The event took place…

LAJIT Ministries will be hosting Hope Community Kitchen on Monday, February 20th and Tuesday, February 21st from 5:30pm to 8:00pm.   It will be located at Stormin’ Norman’s just off Interstate 95 in Kenly.  They will be serving chicken pot pie.…

State and federal investigators executed a search warrant at a Clayton home on Tuesday. US Homeland Security and the NC SBI Computer Crimes Unit searched a home at 204 Sierra Ridge Drive arresting 58 year-old Michael Lewandowski on multiple counts…

Concerned residents and potentially impacted landowners have come together in opposition to the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The group is calling themselves No Pipeline Johnston County or NPJC. They have organized under the umbrella of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense…

A school bus was involved in a three vehicle accident Wednesday afternoon. It happened around 5:39pm on Wilson’s Mills Road at Britt Street in West Smithfield. Bus number 169, driven by Merrion Elaine Bryant of Selma, was carrying 12 students from…