Preparing Kids to Wear Masks Before School
Onslow County health officials urge families to practice mask wearing ahead of fall school start after Governor Cooper guidelines. Dr Susan Coffin from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia offers tips to ease younger children, including making a game of masking, practicing in public, and involving dolls or stuffed animals as helpers.
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Roy Cooper
Onslow County
Philadelphia
Division of Infectious Diseases
Susan Coffin
Coffin
MumFest 2020 in New Bern to be symbolic event
The 40th annual MumFest in downtown New Bern will be scaled back amid Phase 2 COVID-19 limits. Organizers plan a brief Friday and Saturday street dining event with a few vendors and live music, avoiding a full festival like past years.
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New Bern
Laura Overman
Swiss Bear Downtown Development Corporation
The
Sun Journal
Florence
Harakal
Bryan tavern marked early New Bern gathering place near Short and New streets
In 1700s New Bern, John Whitford chronicled the Bryan tavern near Short street meeting point where disputes and settlements occurred. A plank wharf was found in the yard later, suggesting a creekside site once active with candlelit gatherings and dueling lore, including the Stanly Spaight duel noted in local lore.
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John D. Whitford
New Bern
Short Street
New Street
Short
Linden Street
Bryan
Nelson McDaniel
Nelson
Whitford
New and
Craver
Whiford
Bryan Tavern
Stanly
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Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Adam Robison
Southeast
Lynne
William Hogarth
Gannett Co., Inc
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