Last Tuesday (Oct 27), the planning board heard complaints from citizens concerning the problem of construction debris. Our Code of General ...

Economic development isn't the same as business development, though many officials conflate the two. How to tell the difference? Busines...

Oriental's campaign for political office is heating up. At least six of my campaign signs have disappeared. This follows an earlier inci...

The current Town Board has one more scheduled session before the new board is sworn in. The present board has a number of issues previously ...

Most meetings of the Town Board are required to be held in public. North Carolina General Statutes recognize a handful of circumstances (law...

Oriental's animal control ordinance allows its citizens to keep chickens for their own use - as long as they are kept at least 300 feet ...

I'm not a trained accountant, but I once served as Chief Financial Officer of a private equity fund and as government contracts officer ...

At the 13 October special meeting of the Town Board (called by me and Candy Bohmert), the Board of Commissioners directed the Town Manager t...