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...
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
Final Four!
Goldsboro High School is on its way to the NCHSAA Final Four — earning a trip to the 2A East Regional Championship game by defeating Fairmont 63-56. The Cougars will now face Farmville Central for the second consecutive season for...
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.....
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...
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...
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...
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.....
Missed signals
We should be using this space to talk about the most important issue facing this community — the recent announcement of major changes at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, how it happened, and what we are going to do about...
Senior Night sweep
The Charles B. Aycock boys and girls varsity basketball teams both sent their seniors out as winners, sweeping Smithfield-Selma on Senior Night in Pikeville. For more shots from the games, follow New Old North on Facebook and Instagram. The following...
Their sweet success
A classically trained French pastry chef’s friend tells her she should consider collaborating with a man who roasts his own coffee — that his skills could add something to her restaurant. Debi Newton replies with an emphatic, “No.” But then...