At last week's Town Board meeting, Oriental Town Manager Wyatt Cutler claimed that selling Town water to customers outside the Town (i.e...

Yesterday (Friday, August 16), the Oriental Town Board held a special meeting to discuss the state of the Town's water treatment plant a...

Interesting meeting at Town Hall tonight. Much talk about the water board. If there is such a thing. I have written about what it needs to...

The past couple of weeks, one of the topics at Oriental Town Hall has been budgeting and planning the management of the Town's water sys...

Yesterday morning the Town Board and a number of citizens visited Oriental's water treatment plant. The Town Manager gave a briefing on ...

Today's article in the News and Observer about possible tolls on I-95 should be a wake-up call. Tolls for Pamlico County commuters may ...

Two years ago, I explained that the Town of Oriental had a problem with water rates. I pointed out, as I had at Town Board meetings, that t...

Normally that wouldn't be a big deal. Still, since the new board was sworn in December 1 of last year, this is the first time the commis...

North Carolina General Statutes section 132-1.1(c) explicitly provides that “billing information compiled and maintained by a city or county...

The most positive development to come out of the January meeting of Oriental's Town Board is that the water board has finally been conve...

Oriental's new auditor will present the audit to the Town Board at Tuesday's public meeting. This appears to be the only important o...

I understand why some officials may view undergoing an audit as a form of torture. Being criticized in public can be, at the very least, unc...

An Oriental resident recently expressed concerns about the Town Commissioners' increase of the basic water rate by one dollar per month....