Several days after confirming it was shutting down its hog production arm, Goldsboro Milling Co., Maxwell Foods, LLC, filed a lawsuit against pork giant Smithfield Foods Inc. — claiming that the Chinese-owned company is “unlawfully running Maxwell out of the…
“Individual” with COVID was on Meadow Lane campus Thursday
Meadow Lane Elementary School staff have been notified that they might have been exposed to COVID-19 on campus. Principal Wendy Hooks sent an email to MLE staff Thursday after many of them had left for the day, advising them of…
High school football pushed to February
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association released details on when sports will begin this school year and football will no longer be a fall sport. In fact, only cross-country and volleyball will resume competition before Thanksgiving. (Swimming and diving…
Wings Over Wayne pushed back to 2022
There will not be a Wings Over Wayne Air Show in 2021. In a Facebook message posted this morning, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base officials said they would be pushing the event back to 2022, blamed the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic…
Breaking News: Goldsboro Milling shutting down its hog operation
Goldsboro Milling Company — a subsidiary of Maxwell Foods — which, earlier this decade, was recognized as one of the biggest swine producers in the United States, is ending its hog operation. The news was confirmed by the company Friday…
Former Faith Christian teacher charged with sexually assaulting two 11-year-old students in mid-1990s
A former Faith Christian Academy teacher turned himself in to authorities today after the Goldsboro Police Department secured warrants for his arrest in connection with the alleged sexual assault of two then-11-year-old students in the mid-1990s. Anthony Warren Riley, 51,…
WCPS does not have enough computers for an effective September Plan B restart
Wayne County Public Schools will not have enough devices to meet the needs of the 7,000 students who have signed up for the district’s state-mandated Virtual Academy and the 10,000 others who are set to return under the state’s Plan…
West, Strickland spar over how long WCPS should stay in Plan C before 4-2 vote to begin school with 3 weeks of remote instruction
With 7,000 students enrolled in Wayne County Public Schools’ state-mandated Virtual Academy, the district does not have enough devices to facilitate all-remote instruction and the Plan B school reopening model at the same time — and won’t until at least…
District will start in Plan C
A lack of devices for students and insufficient training time for staff were among the factors that led the Wayne County Board of Education to vote to begin the WCPS school year in Plan C — or all remote learning…
Write-ins emerge to take on Foster, Coram in November
Two local residents have emerged as challengers in elections that seemed, after the March Democratic primary, to be all but over. Wayne County Board of Elections officials confirmed Wednesday afternoon that Tina Arnder and Kenneth Coley have fulfilled the requirements…