Planning board to hold Aug 16 hearing on rezoning
Havelock Planning Board schedules 7:15 p.m. August 16 at City Hall for a public hearing on whether to recommend rezoning two Church Road and Miller Boulevard tracts from residential to highway commercial. About 25 to 30 residents attended. Linda Heaps notes the process aims for smart town growth. City commissioners set a separate 7:15 p.m. September 12 hearing. Vira Watson named Planning Board chair. she previously served as city clerk for 20 years through February 1993.
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Linda Heaps
W.S. Harrington
Rawls
Vira Watson
Watson
Havelock
Drain clog and planned study loom for New Bern drainage
Roots and leaves clogged a 50 foot section of Pollock Street drainage last week. DOT crews failed to clear the line after the jet device broke. City officials seek a 271500 drainage study funded partly by a state grant and the Army Corps of Engineers to map a two year rebuild plan.
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George Pollock
Pollock Street
Ken Mason
Craven County
N.C. Department of Transportation
DOT
Ity Spee
Bern
Danny Meadows
Bloomfield Street
Craven Terrace
New Bern
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Meadows
Waste grinder back on line after May fire at New Bern yard
The New Bern yard waste facility is back in business after a May fire damaged the grinder. Public Works Director Danny Meadows said stockpiles were wiped out by a rush after the news. The grinder has been repaired and the site reopened with hours Mon-Fri 8 am to 4 pm and Sat 9 am to 2 pm. Repair cost was 58000 dollars and an insurance claim has been filed.
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New Bern
Danny Meadows
Public Works Direc
Tor
Meadows
Women injured in wrecks remain in Pitt Co hospital
Two women injured in recent accidents near Vanceboro stay hospitalized at Pitt Memorial Hospital. Shauna Weatherly Cooper, 45, in critical condition after a head-on collision on NC 43 north of Vanceboro. Betrina Yvonne Jenkins, 23, has improved to serious, after her vehicle was broadsided on US 17.
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Vanceboro
Pitt Memorial Hospital
Shauna Weatherly Cooper
Vida Lane
NC 43
Cooper
Greensboro
Jenkins
State Highway Patrol
Five Points Area Loan Pool sees slow start but hopeful rebound
The Five Points Area Loan Pool aims to revitalize Queen and Broad streets through a $1 million pool created by eight banks, Swiss Bear Downtown Revitalization Corp. and SCORE. Two loans have been approved amid cautious interest, with flexible terms and free consultations offered to new business owners as organizers push for quicker depletion and broader participation.
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Five Points
Swiss Bear Downtown Revitalization Corp
SCORE
Queen and
Broad Streets
Pie King
Ricky Brown
Bb&t
Brown
Johnnie Sampson
Susan
Moffat
Kerry Willis
Vanceboro
Cedar Street
Willis
Inner City Development Association
Gerald Parker
Craven
Rick Fisher
Swiss Bear
O.marks
Middle Street
Frazier seeks judge removal over racial prejudice claim
Reginald Frazier, representing Ehgin Youssef in a 1992 murder case, asks North Carolina to disqualify Judge Herbert O. Phillips alleging bias. Phillips defended impartiality while proceedings examined Frazier's fitness to practice law, as Youssef stands accused of bludgeoning gospel singer Yeats and concealing the body in a Mercedes trunk before fleeing to Washington.
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Reginald Frazier
North Carolina
New Bern
Herbert O. Phillips
Frazier
State Court of Appeals
Phillips
Ehgin Mohamed Youssef
River Ducer
Zier
Youssef
Craven Superior
Aame
William Ward III
Josh Willey
Craven
W. David McFadyen Jr
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Richmond
Oo Yeats
River Bend
Yeats
Shoreline Drive
Washington
New Bern Mayor Hosts Educators at Adult Ed Conference
Bayliss tells 400 educators that U S workers must be the best and brightest to win foreign work, shares personal story of leaving high school for marriage then returning to college and earning a physics degree. Educators network during the New Bern conference while stressing basic skills to keep companies from relocating.
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Bayliss
U.S
Sandra Babb
New Bern
da Goro
Ness
Tom Bayliss
Babb
Smith
Arc
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Carteret Community College
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