ENC Home Expo and Sports Show Set for New Bern
The annual ENC New Bern Home Outdoor Living Expo plus RV Auto and Sports Show happens this weekend at the Maola Milk Plant site on 1402 N Craven St. Admission is free Saturday 9 AM to 4 PM and Sunday 10 AM to 4 PM. More than 80 exhibitors will showcase products with food vendors Smokin Joe's BBQ Flounders Seafood Crystal Coast Kettlecorn Farrell Farms Snowie Time.
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New Bern
Riverfront
Riverside
Craven St
Farrell Farms
Colonial Capital Humane
Gray Whitley
SUN Journal
Origin of Daylight Saving Time and its wartime roots
The piece recalls the 1916 adoption of Daylight Saving Time during the Great War, noting Germany and Austria-Hungary pioneered the clock shift to conserve resources. It reflects on the cultural repetition of “spring forward” and “fall back” and questions the annoyance of reminders.
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Germany
Radio stations relocate to Lenoir County in Kinston
Five radio stations from New Bern will broadcast from the former BB&T building on Queen Street in Kinston after years of vacancy. Tony Denton of Dick Broadcasting says WRNS 95.1, Bob 93.3, Rock 105.5, The River 101.1/92.3, and The Bull 960 AM will move in to expand local coverage and talk shows about Kinston. The stations have faced flooding during past storms, including Hurricane Florence.
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Bb&t
Queen Street
Kinston
North Carolina
Tony Denton
Dick Broadcasting
Greenville
New Bern
Jacksonville
WRNS
Bob
Rock
the River
the Bull
Down East Wood
Eddie Fitzgerald
the Free Press
Proposed 19 Percent Rise Threatens North Carolina Mobile Home Residents
Neill Caldwell reports that a 19 percent jump in mobile home insurance rates could devastate NC's poorest residents. Joyce Patton, a McDowell County grandmother, already dropped homeowner's coverage to cope, relying on faith as storms threaten her family's mobile home. Nebo area and McDowell County are highlighted for high mobile home populations.
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Joyce Patton
McDowell County
Patton
Nebo
U.S. Census Bureau
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Carolina Public Press
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