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

February 8, 2024 No Responses

BREAKING: SJAFB losing a fighter squadron

Future F-15E cuts included in the National Defense Authorization Act that was approved by Congress — and signed into law by President Joe Biden — will impact Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in the coming months. The 4th Fighter Wing...

February 4, 2024 No Responses

Auditors: Council members received water, travel perks

An “informal, verbal payment arrangement” offered by former Goldsboro Finance Director Kaye Scott — and a directive delivered by her to Water Department employees — allowed former City Council member Mark Stevens to avoid paying his water bill for more...

February 4, 2024 No Responses

Out of the woods

Jason Daniels secures a rope to the thickest branch he can find halfway up one of the decades-old trees nestled in the woods behind Berkeley Mall. He knows a powerful storm is approaching Goldsboro — that he will likely be...

January 30, 2024 No Responses

GHS slams Eastern Wayne

The first clash between bitter rivals Goldsboro High School and Eastern Wayne wasn’t much of a contest, as the Cougars dominated from wire to wire — handing the Warriors a 22-point defeat, 76-54. With the victory, GHS remains undefeated in...

January 28, 2024 No Responses

Backing the blue

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...

January 28, 2024 No Responses

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...

January 28, 2024 No Responses

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,” the...

January 21, 2024 No Responses

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 div...

January 17, 2024 No Responses

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....

January 14, 2024 No Responses

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...

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