Public hearing on New Bern budget set for tonight
New Bern aldermen prepare to approve a 58,740,000 budget with no tax or utility fee increases. The plan adds four new staff positions in a utility billing department and pursues a 1.8 million lease purchase of two generators to cut annual electric costs by about 720,000. One unit will serve Hatteras Yachts with savings of 3,000 per month on its 70,000 monthly bill. A pool project is studied but not funded in the current budget, aiming for a summer start via lease financing at 500,000 to 700,000.
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New Bern
Hatteras Yachts
Crater
Hartman
Obscene calls arrest taps numbers in New Bern area
Robert Neal Smith, 39, a construction worker, was arrested Monday in Craven County on six counts of using a telephone to communicate in indecent language and one count of illegal wire tap. Held on $1,000 secured bond, he allegedly tapped outdoor phone boxes to obtain numbers and called women he had seen, with six incidents in New Bern and one in Trent Woods. He was caught tapping a line behind a church during an obscene call.
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Robert Neal Smith
Highland Ave
Craven County
Smith
New Bern
J.R
McAlexander
Trent Woods
Conference on limited entry fishing at New Bern
North Carolina Sea Grant will convene a two day conference in New Bern at the Sheraton Grand Thursday and Friday. Participants include watermen managers researchers and industry reps to discuss limited entry as a management concept and its implications for North Carolina. Keynote speakers include Jerry Schill Bruce Freeman and Ben Muse.
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New Bern
North Carolina Sea Grant
Sheraton Grand
North Carolina
Jerry Schill
North Carolina Fisheries Association
Bruce Freeman
North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries
Ben Muse
Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission
Finfish stocks improve since 1990 in coastal waters
The Division of Marine Fisheries reports improved populations of three top valued coastal finfish since 1990. Summer flounder shark and Atlantic croaker, ranked first fifth and seventh in value, show gains in the latest assessment.
Havelock approves 5.7 million budget for 1995-96
Havelock commissioners unanimously OK a 5.7 million dollar budget for the 1995 1996 fiscal year boosting city expenditures about seven percent while keeping the property tax rate steady Mayor Jimmy Sanders praised the staff for clarity after weeks of budget work and notes the plan to shift half cent sales tax from the sewer fund to the general fund was reversed to meet state rules.
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Havelock
Jimmy Sanders
Havelock approves $5.77 million budget with 39¢ tax rate
Budget totaling 5,767,292 reflects a 7 percent rise with 39 cents per 100 valuation tax rate. Expenditures include a 2.5 percent pay increase and a $3,000 nonprofit allocation. Officials trimmed 1996 budget gaps by transferring from fund balance and reallocating funds to local agencies while preserving wastewater expansion plans dependent on state revolving loan funds.
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North Carolina Department of Environment, Health and Resources
Havelock
Whelmingly
Craven County Council On Women
Craven Arts Council
Havelock High School
Diane Scarborough
Scarborough
Department
Water
Oriental bulkhead facelift to begin July in Oriental
The U S Army Corps of Engineers will rebuild Oriental s 1200 foot bulkhead along South Avenue starting July 5 in a 547 000 project. Concrete backfill eroded and sidewalk settlement will be repaired with a steel shield, new timber handrail and improved parking. Federal and state grants plus a 46000 loan fund the work with a 6 96 percent interest rate for five years.
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Oriental
South Avenue
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Karen Brasher
Brasher
Christy Hannan
Corps of Engineers
Wilmington
Corps
Hannan
Supreme Court declines Jones death case appeal
The U S Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of John W Jones a North Carolina death row inmate from Jones County who was convicted in 1990 for the September 1989 murder of his son Charles Meadows in the Long Point community Meadows was shot in a car with seven others and a 12 gauge shotgun blast left him dead while a 6 year old girl was injured Jones had pleaded guilty and shown remorse saying I broke the law Jones was 40 at the time of trial and received the death penalty after a six woman six man jury deliberated over nine hours
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Washington
U.S. Supreme Court
Jones County
North Carolina
John W. Jones
Charles Meadows
Long Point
Jones
Meadows
Greg Rideout
Marissa Jones
Pamlico County adopts 1995 96 budget without tax increase
Pamlico County commissioners approve a $7,959,912 budget for 1995 96 with no property tax hike as Adrian Wharton and Johnnie Tripp vote against. The plan projects $7.499 million in revenue, dipping into fund balance to cover a $458,754 shortfall and keeping the 6.2 percent balance level. The board also agrees to raise recreation chief Gary Cooper to $23,000 and to hire a road deputy if a state grant is awarded.
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Bayboro
Board of Commissioners
Adrian Wharton
Johnnie Tripp
Linda Fodrey
Phil Prescott Jr
Danny Miller
Gary Cooper
Cooper
Local Government Commission
Prescott
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Supreme Court
Pamlico
Erick Gill
Son Journal
Pamlico County
June Lane
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Lane
Edsell Hunnings
Hunnings
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