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Town Of Garner Welcomes New IT Director
GARNER – The Town of Garner has welcomed Tom Howley to its team as its new information technology director. Howley joins the Town with over 15 years of technology leadership experience and over 30 years of total experience providing technology…
KS Bank Hires New Commercial Relationship Manager
SMITHFIELD – KS Bank is pleased to announce that Justin McLamb has been hired as a Commercial Relationship Manager in their Goldsboro office. In this role, McLamb will be responsible for developing new business, deposit growth, and loan production. Earl…
Smithfield-Selma High Student Wins First Place In Poetry Out Loud Competition
On Thursday, January 12, Smithfield-Selma High School International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme senior Courtney Lassiter won first place in the Johnston County Poetry Out Loud competition. Courtney memorized and performed two poems for this competition: “Epitaph” by Katherine Phillips and “A Song:…
You Decide: Has There Been Some Good News On Income Inequality?
By Mike Walden Decades from now, people who lived through the pandemic will remember it as a horrible period. Over a million people in our country died, with millions more sick but still surviving. Thousands of businesses closed forever, learning…
Social Security Matters – About Difficulty With Social Security’s Sign-In Process
Social Security Matters by Rusty Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens Dear Rusty: Last month I tried to contact Social Security who never picked up a phone on…
Wayne County Woman Wins $100,000 Powerball Prize
GOLDSBORO – Jennifer Nunn of Goldsboro took a chance on a $3 Powerball ticket and won a $100,000 prize in Wednesday’s drawing. Nunn bought her lucky Quick Pick ticket from Quick Mart on North Spence Avenue in Goldsboro. She matched the numbers on four…
Clayton High Students Attend UMO Outdoor & Wildlife Symposium
MOUNT OLIVE – The University of Mount Olive recently hosted the first-ever Outdoor & Wildlife Sympos at the UMO Kornegay Student Farm in Duplin County. The event was sponsored by the University of Mount Olive School of Agriculture & Biological Sciences…
Cleveland High Teacher Named Finalist For NCCAT Empower Beginning Teacher Of The Year
Johnston County Public Schools 2022 Outstanding First Year Teacher of the Year Gabe Patton was one of 27 educators who were named a finalist for the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) 2023 Empower NC Beginning Teacher…
Congresswoman Ross Presents Check To Garner Senior Center For Improvements
GARNER – The Garner Senior Center welcomed Congresswoman Deborah Ross and other dignitaries Friday morning – including the town’s current representative in the U.S. House, Congressman Wiley Nickel – to announce that over $500,000 in federal funding has been awarded to the…
Cooperative Extension Hires New Agriculture Agent
SMITHFIELD – As growth in population increases so does the intense need for agriculture literacy. According to the 2017 Ag Census, Johnston County had a total of $267,757,999 in ag products sold while the number of farms went down by…
