This is scary stuff.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2009 3:52 PM | Full story
If I were a terrorist prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay, I would write a letter to all of my radical and terrorist friends throughout the world and let them know the good news in reference to new liberal steps for us:
Updated: Nov. 2, 2009 3:52 PM | Full story
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A fire broke out at two stores on Third Street in Smithfield, one of which was the City Grocery. Both businesses planned to rebuild immediately.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2009 3:57 PM | Full story
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Here's what I've been thinking lately:
Updated: Nov. 2, 2009 3:52 PM | Full story
For at least two months, Birmah Stemler, a Smithfield resident, had planned a Patriot's Day Tea Party on the steps of the Johnston County Courthouse. The event on Sept. 11 was to coincide with Patriot's Day. Ms.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2009 2:38 PM | Full story
The Town of Clayton is asking its employees to take a financial stake in their physical health. This might well be the most innovative idea to ever come out of a town hall in Johnston County.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2009 2:38 PM | Full story
Smithfield and Selma are spending public dollars to determine if some private lands would make good industrial sites. But leaders of both towns are declining to name the private beneficiaries of this public generosity.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2009 2:38 PM | Full story
"Health care" is an expression today's senior citizens seldom, if ever, heard when they were children. In addition, few people living six to eight decades ago had ever heard of health insurance, and I never knew anyone then who bought or had it.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2009 2:38 PM | Full story
Glendale was set to name its first mayor, an honorary position for the unincorporated community. His duties included crowning the "popularity queen" during the Glendale carnival and appearing in a school yearbook.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2009 2:38 PM | Full story
After the legislature leaves town in the summer, especially in years when no state offices are up for election, the political news in the state capital can slow to a crawl.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2009 5:04 PM | Full story
Construction of First Baptist Church got under way on South Fourth Street in Smithfield, and The Herald reported that it would be "a handsome building." A Smithfield woman won a mattress for having the best pound cake at the N.C.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2009 5:04 PM | Full story
I don't cook, unless one counts breakfast on Christmas morning and the occasional grilled-cheese sandwich. Still, I'm rooting for the Clayton Farm and Community Market.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2009 5:03 PM | Full story
Ashley Beasley, the reigning Miss Johnston County, and Michelle Denning, executive director of the Miss Johnston County Scholarship Pageant, were special guests at the Ava Gardner Museum's Festival Gala on the evening of Oct. 9.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2009 5:03 PM | Full story
For Gov. Beverly Perdue, scandal can be turned into opportunity.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2009 3:14 PM | Full story
The news is full of bad things happening in our neighborhoods and around us, things we find hard to believe. The day is long past when we left our doors open without worry of being robbed.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2009 3:14 PM | Full story
We appreciate the connection that Clayton folks feel to their community and their high school. We say this after hearing parents lobby to keep their children within the Clayton High School attendance boundaries.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2009 3:14 PM | Full story
I am not among those people who think political signs are litter. To the contrary, I think they are signs, literally, of a healthy republic in which citizens have the freedom to choose their leaders.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2009 3:14 PM | Full story
The N.C. Department of Transportation was getting ready to open Interstate 40 from McGee's Crossroads to I-95 at Benson.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2009 3:19 PM | Full story
A newspaper called the Garner-Clayton Record isn't necessarily intuitive: Two distinct towns in two different counties. But a couple of events over the last week suggest that Johnston is growing more like Wake every day.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2009 4:55 PM | Full story
A while back, I changed the route of my downtown walk. Nothing against South Fourth and South Third streets; I was just looking for some new scenery, so now I walk a route that takes me along North Second and North Third streets
Updated: Oct. 5, 2009 4:55 PM | Full story
Anyone who has ever stayed in an upper-story condo or hotel room in Atlantic Beach, Morehead City or Beaufort knows about the competing views.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2009 4:55 PM | Full story
Local groups, including many black residents, rallied against a Ku Klux Klan billboard at the entrance to Smithfield. The groups called for an opposing sign stating that the Klan's sign did not represent the town's views.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2009 4:54 PM | Full story
I would like to clear up some misconceptions in the letter by Elizabeth Benton Mencia. First of all, I never said we did not need health-care reform; matter of fact, I agree that we do.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2009 4:54 PM | Full story
With all the focus on socialized health care, the Associated Press broke an incredible story that received very little attention.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2009 3:29 PM | Full story
Mike Easley offers a good lesson for current and former elected officials: Steer clear of anything that even remotely looks like a sweetheart real-estate deal.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2009 3:29 PM | Full story
Do you remember when the "silent majority" was so frequently spoken and written about? Whether the words were original with President Richard Nixon, they fell into common usage after his Nov.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2009 3:29 PM | Full story
Fall is my favorite season of year.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2009 2:29 PM | Full story
Jimmy Carter says Barack Obama's critics on health-care reform are racists. "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president," the former president said recently.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2009 2:29 PM | Full story
Having two sons on the autism spectrum, I have on occasion written my congressman, Bob Etheridge. I always received a well-informed, helpful and speedy response. He does a great job.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2009 2:29 PM | Full story
Plenty of law-enforcement agencies can make the case that they need more tax dollars to do their job of protecting the public.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2009 2:29 PM | Full story
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