Havelock News

When Havelock firefighter Charlie Winter went into a burning home to look for a trapped child, he didn't think about his own children.

Student John Wesley Roebuck holds up his new iPad he was given by Don Beaver, left, and Bill Culler of the Havelock Civitans Club on May 29, at Graham A. Barden Elementary School in Havelock.

N.C. Secretary of Commerce Sharon Decker vowed support for Cherry Point and Fleet Readiness Center East after a tour of the base last week.

The Craven County Board of Commissioners is set to vote Monday on the adoption of the county's proposed $97,976,042 general fund budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year.

Complaints ranged everything from why a bulletin board announcing city meetings was not set up at the bottom of the City Hall steps for the disabled to an ongoing problem of a canal overflowing and flooding a woman's yard to concerns about pole dancing.

New Bern aldermen nearly turned a public hearing on the 2013-14 city budget Tuesday night into another budget workshop after a majority of board members were confused on several issues.

The Craven County Sheriff's Office responded to a home about 4:30 Tuesday afternoon which evolved into a standoff situation.

Quickly making good on N.C. Secretary of Transportation Tony Tata's recent assurance that the Slocum Gate Flyover "is a fact," a public update meeting on the project has been set for June 25 in Havelock.

Tropical Storm Andrea knocked down power lines and dropped rain on Craven County, but the worst of the storm cleared the area by mid-afternoon Friday.

Power crews responded and had repaired the down line in about 90 minutes. Otherwise, city officials are reporting no significant problems with the storm.

"I was lying in bed worried that I wouldn't be able to sell the food that I bought, that nobody would ever buy it," he said.

Craven County's recent decision to stop Havelock and Harlowe senior center congregate meals programs started stirring a public opinion pot that now appears to be boiling.

Whether there will be a Base Realignment and Closure Commission in 2015 is anybody's guess.

The Craven County Board of Commissioners has scheduled a public hearing for 7 p.m. Monday to get residents' comments on a proposed 2013-14 fiscal year budget that appears to pull the county's belt tight enough to avoid any tax hike.

Havelock commissioners voiced concern Tuesday over funding cuts that may result in the loss of the senior meals program in Havelock and Harlowe.

Ashton Hobbie was confronted with a sea of color as he looked at a wall of artwork by students from Graham A. Barden Elementary in Havelock.

A Havelock woman has been charged with driving while impaired in connection with a Wednesday evening wreck that sent five people to the hospital.

City of Havelock public information officer Diane Miller says there was an accident on Highway 70 westbound near the McDonald's at Webb Boulevard which left one vehicle in the ditch.

New Bern police are investigating a Tuesday night shooting that left a Havelock-area man with non-life-threatening injures.

Warren Salter's yard had yielded more problems than dandelions. Just inches below the surface, he's dug up glass, spark plugs, even the hood to an old truck.