Category Archives: Local News
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
PIC OF THE DAY: Like Father, Like Daughter
Mount Olive Fire Department Captain Brent Heath has been a member of the department for many years. But now he has some new competition on the firefighting squad. His daughter Marylee Heath has follow...
May 09, 2020
Feeding Our First Responders (PHOTO GALLERY)
Employees from Bobby Denning Department Store along with Shumate-Faulk Funeral Home partnered up Thursday to provided a hot meal for local firefighters, law enforcement, and EMS crews for there dedica...
May 09, 2020
Blaze Destroys Barn On Shady Grove Road (PHOTO GALLERY)
Late Friday afternoon, firefighters from Smith Chapel, Mount Olive, and Dudley responded to the scene of a barn fire behind a house on the 700 block of Shady Grove Road. Heavy smoke could be seen as f...
May 09, 2020
Wayne County Provides Weekly COVID-19 Update
As of Friday, the Wayne County Health Department is tracking 709 positive cases of COVID-19. 469 of these cases are offenders at the Neuse Correctional Institute in Goldsboro, 44 cases are from a cong...
May 08, 2020
United Way’s Good Deeds Report For May 8
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 08, 2020