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A self-described “student of history” Jane Phillips of Kinston is no stranger to historical preservation in Eastern North Carolina. Today, she introduces us to a regular column featuring the people, places and events that impacted our history and led us to this very moment in time.
“By the time I reached high school I had a battery-powered Fry Daddy set up in my locker. I sold more hot dogs than Oscar Meyer in those days."
Neuse News sports director Junious Smith III is ready to take on some new challenges in the 2018-19 school year.
The legendary Reece Gardner shares his thoughts on the best way to make your way through life and adversity.
"I've worked for the WMO as a meteorologist since the 1960s," the email read. "I started out as an intern, which meant I was in charge of picking up Thunderbird and cigarettes for staff breakfast meetings. Eventually I transitioned into a full-time position, with my main duties being monitoring radar and naming storms."
Know of someone deserving of recognition for the selflessness in our community? Here’s your opportunity to honor them!
"It was epic," Sears said recently on Twitter. "Mr. Hanks was delusional like most individuals who are advanced in age and try to relive their glory days by taking on a younger, smarter, faster, better-looking version of themselves. It was Hanks' last-ditch effort to cheat Father Time or maybe just himself."
Junious Smith III is not happy about the current situation in the NBA, so he takes a (very early) look at prep basketball teams for 2018-19.
While the rest of you are talking LeBron to L.A., Junious Smith III is wistfully looking ahead to the 2018 prep football season.
I looked around to see if anyone else felt the small earthquake I'd just felt, but everyone was acting as if nothing happened. Fearing this was stage one of my exit from this mortal coil, I grabbed a nearby napkin and hastily scribbled together a last will and testament.
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.
“If given the choice, I'd rather see the gas light in my car come on in the middle of the night in front of Hannibal Lector's house than see the computer update notice.”
There is a crisis that threatens every restaurant drive-thru in the United States. Do you know the warning signs?
Lenoir County is home to many historical monuments: The CSS Neuse, the Richard Caswell Museum and Neuse News Editor Bryan Hanks’ 1937 Jeep.
Summer vacation is upon us and with it an opportunity for families to spend some quality time together. My two Tax Deductions are excited to begin what The Wife has assured them had better be a summer of blissful co-existence.
For the first time in a while, it feels good to work with people again on the news side.
In case you don’t know who I am, my name is Junious Smith III. I was born and raised in Fayetteville, but moved to Kinston in 2013. I’m coming to Neuse News with nearly 11 years of experience, …
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.
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.
