Neuse News Editor Bryan Hanks takes a look at some of the issues confronting the local sports scene in his weekly column, including Damian Dunn’s transfer from Kinston and Arendell Parrott Academy’s foray back into 11-man football.
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Bryan Hanks: Back in the saddle again
In his first weekly column, Neuse News Editor Bryan Hanks catches you up with his life and introduces you to his vision for local journalism in Kinston and Lenoir County.
Bryan Hanks returns to Kinston
For many years Bryan Hanks was known to the people of Lenoir, Greene, and Jones counties as a newspaper journalist who lived, breathed, dreamed and marinated in sports. If two or more people gathered to engage in throwing, running, kicking or jumping, Hanks was there with a notepad, a pencil and a shirt loud enough to drown out a low-flying jet.