Smithfield News

Ashley Edwards was ready for the pomp and circumstance of her senior year of high school.

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Shakara Campbell makes another 'reload' of the hot dog bin during lunch hour at Jones Lunch.

Starting next school year, Johnston County Schools is requiring students who want to purchase a high school parking pass to show proof theya ve completed a defensive driving course, a oeAlive at 25.a The course is offered for $25 per student through Johnston Community College in Smithfield.

The Capital Area Workforce Development Board opened six employment centers at churches and community centers in Kenly, Raleigh, Selma, and Smithfield Thursday.

Like most businesses, Johnston Health faces financial hurdles, but hospital leaders expect it to emerge from the downturn stronger than ever.

Despite the recession, construction is under way at two spots on Bright Leaf Boulevard.

Due to the increase in summer temperatures the Town of Smithfield Sanitation Department will be changing its normal scheduled work hours.

Johnston Community College is proud to announce its student ambassadors for the 2009-2010 academic year.

A Juneteenth Festival will be held from 1 till 6 p.m. Saturday, June 20, in Smith-Collins Park in Smithfield.

The Ava Gardner Museum, located in downtown Smithfield, NC, is excited to announce that on Monday, a newly redesigned website for www.avagardner.org was unveiled.

Johnston Christian Academy, located at 923 E. Booker Dairy Road in Smithfield, will close its doors, according to Interim Principal Chris Dentel.

Their only clues were a set of coordinates and instructions to look for a 'suspicious pile of sticks.' Hundreds of yards into the woods near Jordan Lake, that wasn't much help.

A dazed Harold Harris looked up and saw the roof of the Slim Jim snack factory falling down.

Starting this weekend, there's a new feature on my blog: a community price book to help us all save.

For the first time ever, Johnston Community College's GED, or General Education Development, program has had to put students on a waiting list.

A Division of Motor Vehicles mobile unit offering a convenient location for people in and around Newton Grove to obtain driver's licenses and vehicle registration renewals has been dropped.

Two people are in the hospital this morning after fire broke out at a home in Smithfield.

A Clayton church, struck by arsonists about a month ago, was burglarized Friday night.

A new television channel will debut this summer. The Town of Smithfield and Johnston Community College have partnered to launch the station, which will begin broadcasting July 1. 'It's in its infancy right now,' said Justin Merritt, the town's finance director.