Category Archives: Local News
WCPS Schools Earn Purple Star Award
This week, Wayne County Public Schools learned that 20 of its schools earned the Purple Star Award designation from the North Carolina Department of Instruction for their demonstrated military-friendl...
May 14, 2020
Mount Olive Celebrates Southern Wayne Grads (PHOTO GALLERY)
Student and parents could be seen standing along Center Street in Downtown Mount Olive late Tuesday afternoon as a long line of Southern Wayne High School seniors drove past as part of the parade hono...
May 13, 2020
Protest Backs Improving Conditions For City Workers
Protesters push for better conditions for Goldsboro city workers.The group gathered in front of Goldsboro City Hall Tuesday afternoon.NC Public Service Workers Union, UE Local 150 President Bryce Cart...
May 13, 2020
Drivers Slowly Returning To Wayne County’s Roads
An Associated Press analysis shows Americans are slowly getting back on the road after spending much of the last two months at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. The AP analyzed figured from Street...
May 13, 2020
N.C. COVID-19 Cases Top 15,000; Cooper Pushes For More Testing
As of Tuesday, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services reports 15,346 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in North Carolina. 577 of those cases have resulted in death.At a media briefing T...
May 13, 2020
Commissioners Approve Funding For School Land Purchase
Dotting the I's and crossing the T's as Wayne County takes steps to build a new elementary school.Last week, the Wayne County Board of Commissioners approved using $312,000 in WCPS sales tax funds for...
May 13, 2020
United Way’s Good Deeds Report For May 12
The world is full of negative news and United Way of Wayne County would like to highlight the good that happens when our community pulls together. This is by no means a comprehensive list of all the g...
May 12, 2020
Celebrate National Hospital Week With A Cheer Parade
Join United Way of Wayne County and One Church for a community-wide Cheer Parade this Friday, May 15, celebrating Hospital Week and the team at Wayne UNC Healthcare. "It is hospital week and our hospi...
May 11, 2020
MARCHING ORDERS: Salvation Army Leaders Leave Goldsboro In June
While the leadership may change, the mission of the Salvation Army of Goldsboro will continue on as it has for almost 100 years.Captains Sherrie and Phillip Stokes have received their marching orders ...
May 11, 2020
Vehicles Collide T Highway 13 Intersection (PHOTOS)
Saturday afternoon, the Mar-Mac Fire Department and Wayne County EMS Station 3 were dispatched to the scene of a two vehicle accident at the intersection of Providence Church Road and Highway 13 South...
May 10, 2020