At a spirited special meeting last night of the Oriental Town Board, a standing-room only crowd voiced overwhelming opposition to the planne...

Last Friday I attended the Town Meeting with Pamlico County's State Legislators at Pamlico Community College's Ned Delamar Center. ...

There may be news today on the Wal-Mart front. Would you believe two Wal-Mart stores in Pamlico County? I'm not sure even one makes ...

Every year since 1942, on April 18, the anniversary of the Doolittle raid on Japan by 16 B-25 bombers taking off from the pitching flight de...

September 11, 1943, USS Savannah (CL-42), a prewar Brooklyn class light cruiser, was hit by a German bomb while supporting our landing at S...

Today's news seems somewhat hopeful. It isn't clear how it came about, but it sounds like Secretary of State Kerry may have propos...

I have thought for many years that the "unemployment rate" was not a very useful statistic. It doesn't tell us much about the ...

Attending Town Board meetings in Oriental can be very frustrating. No one wants to actually take action. Over the past several weeks, ther...