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 1, 2020 No Responses

Protest stays peaceful because cooler heads prevailed

There were times when the scene playing out in downtown Goldsboro Sunday evening was consistent with other protests that have broken out across the country since George Floyd died in the custody of members of the Minneapolis Police Department May...

May 26, 2020 No Responses

Mount Olive hosts another parade to honor the Class of 2020

MOUNT OLIVE — Mount Olive honored local graduates Tuesday evening with a parade dedicated not just to one particular institution, but to all the schools young men and women from the town will graduate from in the coming weeks. Students...

May 22, 2020 No Responses

Cougar caravan crashes Center Street

Members of the Goldsboro High School Class of 2020 closed out the week with a raucous graduation parade that brought them through — and their loved ones to — the heart of downtown.

May 20, 2020 one Response

Another storm to overcome

As if they had not dealt with enough hardship, members of the Wayne School of Engineering Class of 2020 were thrown another curveball Wednesday evening, as a thunderstorm threatened to wash out the school’s graduation parade. But dozens of young...

May 12, 2020 No Responses

Saints’ day

MOUNT OLIVE — It wasn’t the celebration they anticipated before COVID-19 forced school closures and disrupted their senior years, but members of the Southern Wayne High School Class of 2020 were honored Tuesday evening by parents, teachers, administrat...

May 6, 2020 No Responses

Dillard/Goldsboro reunion cancelled for first time in event’s history

For the first time since the tradition was conceived by Dr. H.V. Brown, the Dillard/Goldsboro Alumni and Friends Inc. Homecoming has been cancelled. But members of the organization said scholarships will still be awarded this spring and encouraged the communit...

May 1, 2020 No Responses

Facebook group lets community ‘adopt’ members of Class of 2020

Some sent gift certificates. Others mailed handwritten letters and congratulatory cards. There have been cash offerings and homemade desserts. For those who have “adopted” members of the Class of 2020 through a Facebook page created by Goldsboro High Schoo...

April 30, 2020 No Responses

Back under the lights: WCPS honors senior athletes

The gesture was simple enough — cutting on field lights and inviting seniors who will miss their final spring sports season due to the COVID-19 crisis to campuses across Wayne County Thursday evening. But for the coaches, players and parents...

April 27, 2020 6 Responses

Dunsmore: WCPS will hold graduations this summer

It might be a drive-in event or a social distance-minded, student-only ceremony that is live-streamed for families and friends. Photographs might be taken in front of green screens that allow school officials to be digitally inserted next to students to...

April 24, 2020 No Responses

NFL star feeding hospital workers, schoolchildren amid COVID-19 crisis

He might be an NFL superstar, but Seattle Seahawks defensive tackle Jarran Reed has never forgotten where he came from. In a news release, Wayne UNC Health Care announced that Reed will be providing meals to second- and third-shift “frontline...

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