Author: Kenneth Fine

Kenneth Fine is an award-winning journalist who resides in Eastern North Carolina. His early work covering the military saw him travel to New York on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and Afghanistan in 2009 to cover the Global War on Terror. More recently, he co-authored an investigative series that earned national acclaim and was republished in The Guardian and Saveur Magazine. Fine has received dozens of honors from the North Carolina Press Association since 2005, but his most prestigious awards include the 2018 Phil D. Reed Environmental Writing Award, a 2018 Society of Environmental Journalists award, a 2018 Society for Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Award, and a 2018 Society for Features Journalism award. You can reach him at kfine@newoldnorth.com

June 20, 2022 No Responses

Aycock resigns from City Council

The Goldsboro City Council accepted the resignation of District 6 Councilman Gene Aycock Monday evening. Aycock, who has served on the board for more than a decade, said his decision to leave the council was based on “personal health reasons...

June 5, 2022 No Responses

Update: One person shot inside Wayne UNC

Several sources — including law enforcement at the scene and staff working inside Wayne UNC Health Care Sunday evening — say the hospital was locked down after a person was shot inside the facility. At 9:53 p.m., the county released...

June 5, 2022 No Responses

Wayne UNC hospital locked down due to alleged “active shooter”

Law enforcement have blocked the entrances to Wayne UNC Health Care and according to staff members inside the hospital, people are barricaded in various rooms due to an “active shooter” on the grounds. Various law enforcement agencies, including the Wayne....

May 22, 2022 No Responses

Welcome home

The Dillard/Goldsboro Alumni and Friends Reunion Weekend continued Saturday with a parade that took hundreds of participants on a journey through downtown Goldsboro. Thousands of local residents lined the streets and celebrated the first alumni homecoming sinc...

April 23, 2022 No Responses

Band battle

Goldsboro High School’s Mighty Marching Cougar Band hosted a “Battle of the Bands” jamboree Saturday. The well-attended event was created to raise funds for new uniforms for the storied group. The following photographs were taken by Ken Fine.

April 20, 2022 No Responses

David Ham finally stands for fiscal responsibility … by voting ‘no’ on Dillard-Goldsboro donation?

Perhaps it was simply a lapse in judgment — a case of the Mondays that resulted in a vote that can be characterized as both out of touch and counterintuitive. But David Ham’s lone “no” when it came to the...

March 23, 2022 No Responses

Goldsboro Mayor David Ham receives official notice of impending state audit

Two months after State Treasurer Dale Folwell instructed State Auditor Beth Wood to conduct a “thorough audit” of Goldsboro’s books amid concerns that “its finances might be in disarray and therefore vulnerable to mismanag...

March 23, 2022 No Responses

Satterfield tapped as Chamber president

The Wayne County Chamber of Commerce has a new leader. Scott Satterfield, one of the faces of the community — thanks largely to his work with the Downtown Goldsboro Development Corporation — has been chosen as the organization’s next president....

March 21, 2022 No Responses

City approves 20-percent utility rate hike

The Goldsboro City Council approved a 20-percent utility rate increase during its pre-meeting work session Monday evening via a 5-2 vote. For complete coverage of this developing story — and the other matters discussed by the board — follow the...

March 7, 2022 15 Responses

Goldsboro High students plead with council to intervene as ‘unsafe’ historic school ‘deteriorates’

Three Goldsboro High School students came to the Goldsboro City Council Monday to ask for help fixing up a school they say once was a source of pride in the city but is now ignored, neglected and unsafe. Christopher Smith,...

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