Snow Hill News

Gov. Pat McCrory, third from left, stops on the steps of the old state Capitol building to chat with from left, Sen.

Special Olympic athletes, from left, Allen Jenkins, 27, Ryan Hood, 32, and Erica Walderman, 29, lead the Wayne County portion of the N.C. Law Enforcement Torch Run for the Special Olympics Friday.

The Greene County Public Library has received a donation from James Jones and his wife Mary Jo Stevens Jones in memory of her mother, Lela T. Stevens, a former Greene County Library Board and Neuse Regional Library Board member.

Linda Barfield of Snow Hill heard a car horn blast Monday afternoon and a lady yelled, "The barn's on fire!" The barn was several feet away from the trailer, at 25 Shady Grove Church Road, where Barfield, her husband, his brother and two children were inside unaware of the smoke and flames outside.

The time for both was Saturday at the 20th Annual Teen Fest, sponsored by the Young Women's Outreach Center.

But through a series of unfortunate experiences, Robbins was thrown into depression, leaving her camera to sit still and lifeless.

Andrew Duppstadt, assistant curator of education for Historic Sites in Eastern North Carolina, recently spoke to the Kinston Evening Rotary Club about the moving and opening of the historic CSS Ram Neuse to downtown Kinston.

Greene County's 15th annual Relay for Life event starts today at 5 p.m., beginning with the Torch of Hope Run at the courthouse.

Over the past few weeks, car thieves have been running amok all over Lenoir County.

A woman who lives alone falls inside her mobile home. A man suffers a heart attack.

"The question is," he said, "Can Greene County survive? Can it even sustain itself? Or do we need to be absorbed by another county at some point?" Snow Hill resident Carolyn Newcomb said the county commissioners need to work together to make decisions that will benefit the whole county or the state will take over and determine its future.