Harris Jenkins is a bright young man, but we're not buying his analysis of the mayoral race in Selma.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2009 3:19 PM | Full story
Johnston County was ranked the 45th richest farm county in the nation. Several local women joined the WAVES to help in the war effort, and a soldier from Pine Level received the Purple Heart.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2009 3:19 PM | Full story
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You recently ran an article titled "Did Gideons cross the line?" In the article, staff writer Andrew Kenney reported that a parent complained that her son was given a Bible at school.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2009 3:19 PM | Full story
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In 1999, state lawmakers created a foundation to manage half the state's proceeds from a multi-billion-dollar national tobacco settlement.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2009 3:19 PM | Full story
Congratulations to David Grady, the once-and-future mayor of Kenly. Last week, he did what few challengers ever do -- he trounced an incumbent.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2009 2:47 PM | Full story
I don't like write-in campaigns. Nothing personal against the people who launch them -- Princeton's David Holt is among my favorite people -- but if you're going to run for office, you ought to file.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2009 2:47 PM | Full story
Jerry Dodson's letter in the Oct. 14 edition was exactly right. What does the GOP really stand for anymore? Mark Otto tried to tell us in a Nov. 4 letter. But then, what does the Democratic Party stand for?
Updated: Nov. 9, 2009 2:47 PM | Full story
A Four Oaks man brought a sick Cuban boy to the United States for treatment.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2009 2:47 PM | Full story
Minus one shocking revelation, Mike Easley might have come out of a State Board of Elections hearing with little more than a fine for his campaign committee.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2009 2:47 PM | Full story
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
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
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
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