There seems to be some confusion about what the Town Board of Commissioners actually does. The Board is, under NC General Statutes, the ...

Oriental Town Government is in a state of transition. Tomorrow evening the outgoing and ingoing commissioners will gather to establish the a...

Last year the town's audit report was submitted to the state several months late. The North Carolina Local Government Commission was not...

Now there's a mouthful. We're going to hear more about it at the federal level: "Right and Left Join to Take On U.S. Over Crimi...

No, this isn't a joke. Earlier this evening, I heard an insistent and unfamiliar knock. When I opened the door, I was met by a Sheriff...

There was great relief in Oriental when we learned that the County Sheriff's Department had arrested the alleged perpetrators of a numbe...

My favorite contemporary American philosopher is Yogi Berra, who famously observed: "It's difficult to make predictions, especially...

I don't care what anyone says - today is Armistice Day. The day World War I - "the war to end wars," came to a desultory end i...