COVID-19
Funding Available To Help Low-Income Households With Energy Bills During Hot Summer Months
Funding is now available to help North Carolinians in crisis pay cooling or heating bills or secure cooling or heating resources. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’…
Tuition And Fees Will Stay The Same Despite Possible COVID-19 Disruptions
By Lindsay Marchello and Kari Travis Carolina Journal News Service RALEIGH — The University of North Carolina Board of Governors is keeping tuition and fees the same no matter what happens…
You Decide: Can Good Things Come From Bad Times?
By Dr. Mike Walden My mother died twenty years ago. Although she didn’t have much formal education – she dropped out of high school after two years – she was…
Johnston County Public Schools Will Start School Year Online
School Year For All Students Will Begin Aug. 17th With Remote Learning K-5 Students Will Return To Classrooms September 8th SMITHFIELD – At the conclusion of a nearly six hour…
Thompson Gets The Call To MLB, Mullins Makes Opening Day Roster
After months of uncertainty with not only the possibility of baseball being played but in the world as a whole, a long-awaited dream has been fulfilled. Former Campbell hurler Ryan…
Governor Cooper: Congress Needs To Act Now And Extend Unemployment Benefits For Struggling Workers
Op-Ed By Governor Roy Cooper: Next week, thousands of North Carolinians who are out of work due to COVID-19 will see a drastic reduction in their unemployment benefits despite this…
Smithfield Electric Customers Urged To Establish Payment Plan Ahead Of July 29 Deadline
On July 29, Governor Roy Cooper’s Executive Order No. 142 will expire and normal utility billing will resume. First issued on March 31, the governor’s executive orders temporarily suspended residential…
Clinton City Schools Reentry Blends In-Class, Remote Learning
Parents have option for solely remote learning Clinton City Schools is preparing to get back to school on Aug. 17 and they are working out a plan that mixes remote…
N.C.’s Obsolete Death Reporting System Keeps Public In A Fog
By Julie Havlak Carolina Journal News Service RALEIGH — As death rates spike across the nation, no one knows how many North Carolinians have died since the COVID-19 pandemic struck. New…
Harnett County Schools Announce Reopening Plan
Harnett County Schools (HCS) rolled out its reopening plan for both in-person instruction and online learning as the new classroom calendar year quickly approaches. With the 2020-21 school year slated…
U.S. Government Announces Agreement With Pfizer To Produce Millions Of Doses Of COVID Vaccine
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense (DoD) today announced an agreement with U.S.-based Pfizer Inc. for large-scale production and nationwide delivery of 100…
Latest Job Numbers Look Promising
By JOHN HOOD RALEIGH — For inveterate optimists, the past several months have been excruciating. A global pandemic has produced great suffering and death. A protest movement that began with…
