Pamlico County Seeks 13th Slot in Global TransPark
Transpark commission approves Pamlico County to join the Global TransPark economic development zone as the 13th member after a long reversal of earlier votes. Each county pays 10 000 dollars to join while residents face a 5 dollar license plate tax for a trust fund funding needed infrastructure. The full commission must approve Sept 1 and a public hearing on the tax is scheduled for Sept 22 with notices in Pamlico Lenoir and Craven newspapers.
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Global TransPark Commission Executive Budget and Finance Committee
Pamlico County
GTP
Board of Commissioners
Pamlico
Lenoir
Craven County
Airport transforms wetlands and slave graves into historic park
Craven Regional Airport plans to preserve wetlands and a slave burial ground as a public historical park. James City Historical Society proposes nine acres around the existing site, including a refurbished slave quarters building and nature trails, to educate visitors about the area’s freed slave community at the state’s first Black settlement.
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Price
Airport Board
North Carolina
Croatan Forest
James City Historical Society
Grace George
James City
George
Airport
The
Historical Society
Pamlico County Starts School With 2200 Enrollments
Pamlico County schools anticipate about 2200 students registering for classes on the first day. Hazel Alcock, community school relations coordinator, called the day smooth and positive. Phil Rea, a 1971 Pamlico County High School graduate from Newport News Virginia and a businessman, delivered a motivational speech urging students to set goals.
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Pamlico County
Phil Rea
Newport News
Pamlico County High School
Rea
New Bern law firm to help decide how to spend funds
The Global TransPark Commission approved Ward & Smith to draft a loan policy for five dollar license plate tax proceeds. The aim is fair access for all member counties to financing for transpark infrastructure, with DOT to install 14 perimeter signs at a total cost not exceeding 29000.
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New Bern Law Firm
Global TransPark Commission
Ward & Smith
Commission
Transpark Authority
Henson P. Barnes
Research Triangle Park
GTP
Hal Plank
Amital Spinning wins EPA water use award in 1994 region honor
Amital Spinning Corp.s New Bern plant received the 1994 Municipal Water Use Efficiency Award for Region 4 in Atlanta. The acrylic yarn maker, employing about 330, cut water use from 292 million gallons to 35.5 million annually through a two stream dyeing process, reuse tanks, and a tank farm. Since 1987, after acquiring the Texfi plant with hazardous residues, it has led a cleanup and waste and water conservation program, expanding continually and moving toward natural gas to reduce emissions.
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James Spock
Annital Spinning Corp
Environmental Protection Agency
Spock
New Bern
EPA
Amital
Region 4
Atlanta
New Bern Opera
Annital
New Bern Board Hears CDBG Grant Wish List
New Bern Aldermen heard residents urge funding for the 1995 Community Development Block Grant to repair Pembroke and Duffyfield areas. About 12 residents spoke as the city plans to apply by mid February 1995, prioritizing housing needs and matching funds.
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Pembroke
Duffyfield
New Bern
Sampson
Mayo
Second Avenue
Miller Street
First Avenue
Willie Perry
Perry
Barbara Lee
Planning Department
Lee
Robert Raynor
Raynor
Don Baumgardner
Volunteers Bring Light to Banger Elementary
Rita Piner of New Bern and Zelda Bryant volunteer at Banger Elementary, sharing one to five hours weekly to tutor students. They emphasize the rewards of helping children, easing teachers' load, and inspiring working parents to volunteer under a new state law that facilitates scheduling.
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Rita Piner
New Bern
Piner
Zelda Bryant
Banger Elementary
Montgomery Ward
Bryant
WCTI
ECU
Furman
Ing
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Kinston
GTP Authority
Henson Barnes
John Price
Craven Regional Airport
Coastal Carolina
Bayboro
Hazel
Alcock
Transpark Zone
State Department of Transportation
Barnes
Lenoir County
Carol Long
Carteret County
Charlie Peek
Sun Journal
Amitoi
Terry Hollowell
Frances Sutton
Ray
Board
CDBG
Coerle
Ctra
By Robyn L. Davis
Angela Harris
Trent Park
Keri Piner
Blair Overmon
Sara Mitchell
Graycie Overmon
Lauren Piner
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