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…
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…
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,” they…
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 dive into…
Cougars outlast Bruins
Beddingfield gave the Goldsboro High School varsity boys basketball team a fight for more than 31 minutes Wednesday evening, but in the end, the Cougars were able to close their conference foe out in the waning seconds of the game….
Council members speak out on GPD salaries
A 17-year-old shot to death on Hugh Street Dec. 29. A lunchtime shootout inside Berkeley Mall. A corpse found on Sunburst Drive. And all of that after Goldsboro Police Chief Mike West said the incident that claimed that teenager’s life…
Legendary
A little boy comes home from school with tears in his eyes. He is “huskier than everybody else” at Tommy’s Road Elementary — making him an easy mark for those who take pride in teasing others. He is “picked on”…
The Year of the Gun
A 17-year-old Goldsboro High School student was gunned down Dec. 29, but all anyone seems to be talking about on social media is the “Cougar Pride” being felt by alumni, parents, and staff because the school’s girls’ and boys’ varsity…
His eyes on the prize
It’s six o’clock in the morning and the sky is starting to brighten, but the streets that separate the apartment buildings tucked inside the West Haven housing projects remain dark. The groups of young men who were running the block…
Audit should seal Salmon’s fate
There are consequences when you wait too long to make a difficult, but necessary, change, or when you accept excuse after excuse and ignore red flag after red flag. We know — and you know — by watching what has…