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April 6, 2025 No Responses

“Let it ride.”

Somebody had to take the first shot — to begin an aerial defense campaign that many have since argued prevented an “escalation” in the Middle East that, in the worst-case scenario, could have seen the destruction of one of the...

June 7, 2024 one Response

Another broad-daylight murder rattles Goldsboro

Note: We have been covering Goldsboro’s gun violence crisis in our sister print publication, Wayne Week, since our Debut Edition rolled off the press June 12, 2023. In this weekend’s paper, as part of our anniversary edition, we provided an...

March 28, 2024 No Responses

Guilty

His hands and feet shackled, former Wayne County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit Chief Michael Cox shuffled into a federal courtroom just before 10 Wednesday morning. He looked, briefly, across a nearly-empty gallery — one void of the family members who...

March 17, 2024 No Responses

Boxing match

There was finger tapping. There were heavy sighs. There was inaudible mumbling. There were eyerolls and winks. And officials from both sides of the table, out loud, seemed to relish in what they perceived as “gotcha” moments. But beyond the...

March 10, 2024 No Responses

Downtown next

It’s a late February evening in 2007 and an urban designer is addressing the Goldsboro City Council as a crowd of more than 100 local residents listens in. And as she shows off a series of drawings — sketches of...

March 3, 2024 No Responses

Former teachers worry about Goldsboro High’s future

Victoria Ruffin Atkins turns and faces the several dozen teenagers standing in parallel lines on the Goldsboro High School auditorium stage. Moments earlier, they were all smiles — joking with their choral director backstage as they prepared to perform for.....

February 25, 2024 No Responses

Edgewood relocation plan enrages parents

Deann Poirier turns to face both the chairman of the Wayne County Board of Education and its longest tenured member. Her voice is trembling. “Honestly, you cannot look me in the eye and say if you had a kid that...

February 18, 2024 No Responses

Council approves police raises

Members of the Goldsboro City Council delivered on what was, for many of them, a cornerstone of their 2023 campaigns, by voting to increase the salaries of the men and women serving in the city’s Police Department. The move officially...

February 18, 2024 No Responses

Salmon out as city manager

Goldsboro parted ways with City Manager Tim Salmon Monday evening in what was characterized by Mayor Charles Gaylor as a “mutual” agreement that was discussed and signed off on during a marathon closed session held at the tail end of...

February 18, 2024 No Responses

Clipped wing?

They have known it was possible since then-Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown Jr. delivered a two-hour testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee July 11, 2023 — when he talked about “modernization efforts” outlined in the Department.....

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