Final Four!

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...
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Senior Night sweep

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...
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GHS slams Eastern Wayne

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...
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Cougars outlast Bruins

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....
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Legendary

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”...
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His eyes on the prize

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...
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Jayda’s gift

Jayda’s gift

Aleah Hill drives toward the basket and pushes off with her right leg — elevating before softly lifting the ball through the net. The crowd goes wild, but the 14-year-old is focused on a single chant coming from the bleachers....
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Golden Falcons have already won

Golden Falcons have already won

It was a particularly cold fall evening in 2019, but I was riding back to Wayne County with the windows down. Truth be told, I needed the fresh air. Two local football teams had just been eliminated from the state...
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Wayne Country Day sued by neighbor over home run balls

Wayne Country Day sued by neighbor over home run balls

Editor’s note: The following story appeared in the Oct. 1 edition of Wayne Week. Because of the demand for this week’s paper, we have decided to release this piece online, but in the future, while a limited number of copies...
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Gators smother Saints

Gators smother Saints

The Southern Wayne High School varsity boys soccer team showed up in Seven Springs as the favorite, but that didn’t stop Spring Creek from putting on a defensive clinic against the Saints to secure a 1-0 victory. The following photographs...
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