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February 8, 2024 No Responses

BREAKING: SJAFB losing a fighter squadron

Future F-15E cuts included in the National Defense Authorization Act that was approved by Congress — and signed into law by President Joe Biden — will impact Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in the coming months. The 4th Fighter Wing...

February 4, 2024 No Responses

Auditors: Council members received water, travel perks

An “informal, verbal payment arrangement” offered by former Goldsboro Finance Director Kaye Scott — and a directive delivered by her to Water Department employees — allowed former City Council member Mark Stevens to avoid paying his water bill for more...

January 28, 2024 No Responses

Backing the blue

Fresh off comments from a majority of members of the City Council that salary increases for the men and women who serve in the Goldsboro Police Department were imminent amid what many local residents and leaders have characterized as a...

January 28, 2024 No Responses

State: Salmon received water bill credit for “leaky hose”

While City Manager Tim Salmon was recommending water rate increases for Goldsboro residents, he did so with the knowledge that he was one of the recipients of a credit to his water account for a “leaky hose” — just one...

January 28, 2024 No Responses

City to begin ‘compassionate relocation’ of Tent City residents

Members of the Goldsboro Police Department have tried to address the city’s homelessness and addiction crises before. But when, more than five years ago, they attempted to enforce trespass agreements and clear out the encampment known as “Tent City,” the...

January 21, 2024 No Responses

Storm’s a comin’

Back in early 2022, North Carolina Treasurer Dale Folwell excoriated Goldsboro leaders for the city’s repeated inability to fulfill its financial reporting obligations in a timely manner — and charged then-State Auditor Beth Wood with taking a deep div...