Transpark urged to aid regional farm market growth
County extension agents met with the Global TransPark Agriculture Committee and State Department of Agriculture officials to explore helping farmers in 13 eastern counties grow new crops and access international markets. They cited Canada as a large potential market and urged more guidance, assurances, and market timing. Farmers would pursue crops if there is a definite market and viable profitability.
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Global TransPark Commission
Commission
Agriculture Committee
State Department of Agriculture
North Carolina
Stanley Dixon
Greene County
Department of Agriculture
Bob King
Department
Britt Cobb
Canada
Cobb
Pamlico County
TDA approves 25000 sponsorship for Hooters tour stop
Craven County Tourism Development Authority approves a 25000 sponsorship for the Hooters Jordan Professional Golf Tour planned for Emerald Golf Club in Greenbrier next May. New Bern Chamber will raise 75000 locally to host the event with television coverage on Home Team Sports. The tour will draw 200 golfers and impact 25 host cities with over 1 million dollars each.
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Craven County Tourism Development Authority
TDA
Emerald Golf Club
Greenbrier
New Bern
Fuss
Craven County
Roberts
Ex-wife Sues Over 2 by 4 Attack in New Bern Salon
Debra Laughinghouse seeks more than 10 000 in compensatory and punitive damages from ex husband Johnny Ray Anderson for a 2 by 4 beating at a New Bern beauty shop. He pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon and received five years in prison. Laughinghouse had obtained a temporary restraining order and fears for her life if he is released. Anderson was denied parole on April 6 and faces another hearing next March.
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Debra Laughinghouse
New Bern
Craven County
Johnny Ray Anderson
River Road
Vanceboro
Anderson
Craven County Social Services
Craven County Superior Court
Laughinghouse
Parole Commission
New Bern road paving plan targets Trent Boulevard repair
New Bern will repave about a mile of Trent Boulevard from First to Eighth streets funded by Powell Bill money totaling around 650000 this year with 70000 earmarked to reimburse the Trent project. Havelock receives 297500. bids are hoped by July 18 with work to start September 1 and finish within a week.
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New Bern
Trent Boulevard
Danny Meadows
Trent
Havelock
Diane Scarborough
Meadows
Red Robin
Dartmouth
Red Robin Lane
Local athletes shine at Special Olympics in New Haven
Twelve year old Toccara Hall of Trenton won five medals at the 1995 Special Olympics Summer World Games in New Haven while Eddie Skamarakas of New Bern earned a bronze in power lifting. Both qualified through strong State Games results in Raleigh and Craven County events. Hall returned to a hero’s welcome in Trenton with a courthouse escort and a cheering crowd.
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Toccara Hall
Eddie Skamarakas
New Haven
Conn
Hall
Trenton
New Bern
Raleigh
Skamarakas
Craven County
Leone Skamarakas
Sheriff's
Board of Education
Aldermen name Russell as new tax collector
Donna Russell, long time assistant tax collector, was named by aldermen to become New Bern's tax collector, succeeding Joyner. The 45 year old native has 14 years in the tax office and eight years as assistant, pledging to boost efficiency and maintain the citys roughly five million annual tax intake.
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Russell
New Bern
Donna Russell
Joyner
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Kinston
Theyly
Jesse Avery
San Journa
Vivian Sun Journal
Ed Skamarakas
Skamarakases
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Eddie
Mary Dwyer
Twin Rivers
Cheryl Silge
Sun Journal
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