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 dive into…
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….
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…
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”…
The Year of the Gun
A 17-year-old Goldsboro High School student was gunned down Dec. 29, but all anyone seems to be talking about on social media is the “Cougar Pride” being felt by alumni, parents, and staff because the school’s girls’ and boys’ varsity…
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…
A home invaded. A life interrupted.
It’s the middle of the night and Christian Hernandez’s heart is racing. The 20-year-old had closed his eyes a few hours earlier, but his sleep was abruptly interrupted when he saw his sister in his dreams. There is a massive…
Searching for servants
They are the servant generation, the hundreds of Wayne County residents who populated the community’s service organizations — leading them, guiding them, and supporting them. But they are getting older — and tired. Their numbers have dwindled, and now a…
Housing is a fragile thing
We are all one misstep, one lost paycheck, one serious health diagnosis, one tragedy away. It could be anyone. And it is, all of us — from every background, every neighborhood. For many, it is hard to look at the…
Audit should seal Salmon’s fate
There are consequences when you wait too long to make a difficult, but necessary, change, or when you accept excuse after excuse and ignore red flag after red flag. We know — and you know — by watching what has…