Faison News

The following local students received degrees at East Carolina University's Spring Commencement: Faison: Dona Oglesby, Master of Science.

Faison man in single-car accident

Introduced by Rep. Pryor Gibson, D-Anson. Adopted 104-7. Sent to the Senate. VOTING YES: Lucy Allen , Marilyn Avila , Dan Blue , Linda Coleman , Bill Faison , Larry Hall , Ty Harrell , Verla Insko , James ...

Could motorists here some day be sharing more road space with golf carts as travelers look for ways to reduce the economic sting of the gas pumps? Town officials say they want to be ready -- just in case.

Thursday, 2008 Times change, but the 'Squash King' still reigns 26 June 2008 By Jeffrey Turner, intern Just as the sun rises above the pine trees along Highway 55 west of Mount Olive, so does Kenneth Best to ...

Thursday, 2008 DCSO reports cases of gun theft, arson in Mount Olive, Faison area 26 June 2008 By John Cate, staff writer The Duplin County Sheriff's Office reported a handful of incidents in the Tribune ...

A developer has formally offered to give Camden County $1.5 million to help the county pay for a new high school.

The Wayne County Board of Commissioners have taken an option on a 104-acre tract of land off the U.S. 117 bypass near the Wayne-Duplin county line for use as a potential industrial site.

A section of I-40 West at Exit 355 just west of Faison has reopened after emergency repairs were made where a truck hit the bridge span.

Officials have closed a portion of Interstate 40 in Sampson County to repair a bridge damaged last week when a truck hit it.

Westbound traffic on Interstate 40 in Sampson County is being detoured up and over an exit ramp after a bridge was closed for repairs.

A section of I-40 West at Exit 355 in Sampson County will be closed for about two weeks to perform emergency repairs where a truck hit the bridge span.

Currently, State law prohibits use of golf carts without the usual licensed motor vehicle restrictions, but a small municipality in Northern Wayne County and another in Southern Duplin have passed local laws ...

Just one month after Duplin County voters turned back efforts to add a quarter-cent increase in the local sales tax, Duplin County commissioners this week instructed its Sales Tax Referendum Committee to ...

Two planned shopping centers at U.S. 40 and Interstate 70 east of Hagerstown could transform the area into one of Washington County's biggest retail destinations.

Two Pitt County families were shown Monday the deaths of their son and husband in Iraq are remembered.

By Dean Dellamalva staff writer There seems to be a lot going on in the Town of Faison these days.

By William Holloman staff writer It is a logistical solution for poultry litter management and generates renewable energy or power from poultry litter.

Jimmy Dixon of Mount Olive has called for a runoff election against Frances Parks of Calypso for the Democratic nomination for the District I seat on the Duplin County Board of Commissioners left open by ...

“We have to attract those people who can held us attract industry”

Incentives for industrial recruitment, "love them or hate them," are part of the cost of doing business today, Bud Cahoon, economic development manager with the N.C. Electric Membership Corp., told Duplin ... via Goldsboro News-Argus