For students of migrant farmworker families in Lenoir County Public Schools, it might seem that Santa Claus has relocated to Laupus Library at East Carolina University.
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Executive Order Allows for To-Go or Delivery Sales for Mixed Beverages
RALEIGH: Today Governor Roy Cooper signed an Executive Order authorizing the North Carolina ABC Commission to permit the delivery or carry-out of mixed beverages as an alternative to on-site consumption. This Order is effective December 21, 2020 at 5:00 pm through January 31, 2021.
UNC Lenoir Health Care reintroducing vascular surgical services
Bryan A. Ehlert, M.D. has joined UNC Lenoir Health Care and Physicians Network to provide care and treatment of vascular conditions and diseases in Lenoir County. As a fellowship-trained vascular surgeon, Dr. Ehlert can diagnose, treat and manage a wide range of conditions of the arteries and veins utilizing medical therapy, minimally invasive procedures and surgical interventions. Vascular surgeons treat blood vessels in every part of the body except the heart and brain.
Lenoir County announces three deaths with connection to COVID-19
The Lenoir County Health Department is reporting three deaths in the county of residents who had tested positive for COVID-19. This brings the total number to 66.
Mama's y Papa's owner JePaul Woolard's food trailer is missing
Mama's y Papa's Taqueria owner JePaul Woolard, a 14-year military veteran is missing his food trailer. Woolard reported that he noticed the trailer gone between Saturday evening and Monday morning. Captain Russell of the Kinston Police Department confirmed the incident was being investigated.
Christmas comes to Spring Arbor by way of Community Spirit
The staff and residents of Spring Arbor are grateful to the community for bringing festivity with their Festival Lights and wreath decorating contest that brought joy to their residents and filled them with the Christmas spirit.
Total loss from house fire for family on Paul's Path Road
A local family lost their home in a structure fire on Tuesday night on Paul’s Path Road in Kinston. Dispatched at 7:50 pm on Tuesday, the fire was responded to by North Lenoir Fire & Rescue, La Grange Volunteer Fire Department, Lenoir County EMS, Lenoir County Emergency Management, and the Lenoir County Sheriff’s Department responded to the fire. They were there for about four hours to distinguish the fire and investigate it.
Lenoir County’s Sigma Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma recognizes outstanding beginning teachers
Lenoir County’s Sigma Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma recently recognized outstanding beginning teachers in their third year of teaching. These special young women were chosen by their mentors because they exhibit the qualities of an exceptional educator. Each of these young women received a bag filled with teaching supplies, as well as a certificate of recognition and a brochure about Delta Kappa Gamma.
Farmer's market update for December 19, 2020
The market will be open this Saturday, next Tuesday, December 22nd and the Tuesday before New Year's Eve, December 29th, from 8 until 2 o' clock. After that, it will be closed until strawberry season which will be sometime in April, 2021.
Kinston's Veterans Home is asking for community support for Christmas
To combat loneliness and social isolation, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports is linked to serious health conditions, North Carolina State Veterans Home in Kinston is asking the community to send holiday greetings, prayers, drawings and videos.
Send us your 'Dear Santa' letters by Sunday, December 20
Email us your child’s “Dear Santa” letter by Sunday, December 20 for a chance that it’ll be read on a Neuse News video. Send them to dearsanta@neusenews.com.
Snow Hill Primary announces Terrific Kids
Snow Hill Primary gives out a weekly award called "Terrific Kid" awards. Each teacher at SHP chooses a student who has been responsible, shows great character, or has reached a personal goal.
First COVID-19 vaccine doses given at UNC Lenoir
UNC Lenoir distributed the first six doses of the COVID-19 on Thursday after receiving a shipment of 975 doses. Following the COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan, the first round of vaccine doses are for 1 A employees to include frontline employees who take care of patients with COVID-19. At UNC Lenoir, there are 901 frontline employees who were offered the vaccine. The hospital is not requiring its healthcare workers to take the vaccine.
Lenoir County Public Schools to participate in NCDHHS COVID-19 pilot program
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has selected 17 school districts and 11 charter schools to participate in a pilot program to deploy COVID-19 rapid testing in K-12 public schools where any in-person instruction is happening. Lenoir County Public Schools has 17 locations that will participate in the pilot program. Schools in the pilot will use the Abbott BinaxNOW rapid antigen test card, which uses a nasal swab to detect COVID-19 and provides results in 15 minutes without laboratory processing. The swab must be performed by trained personnel.
North Lenoir High sophomore wins top prize in national essay contest
A 10th grader at North Lenoir High School has won national recognition and a college scholarship for an essay she wrote in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Shyaé Hood of Kinston was one of four grand prize winners of the 2020 Suddenlink Hispanic Heritage Essay Contest honored in a virtual ceremony Wednesday night and awarded a $1,500 scholarship. She is the first-ever winner from North Carolina.
Lenoir County Master Gardeners award grants to seven teachers
Annual grant awards from the Lenoir County Extension Master Gardeners Volunteer Association to inspire projects related to horticulture have gone to seven teachers in Lenoir County. Pat Bizzell, center, president of Lenoir County Master Gardeners, with 2020 grant winners, clockwise from bottom left, Kaitlyn Stroud of Northwest Elementary School, Carol Riddle of Bethel Christian Academy, Brenda Griffin of Pink Hill Elementary School, Rachel Hill of Northwest Elementary School, Ashley Ledford of Southwood Elementary School, Jodi Maxey of South Lenoir High School and Jessica Jones of Woodington Middle School.
$7,404.19 grant awarded to Trenton Emergency Medical Services, Inc.
Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Mike Causey announced that the Trenton Emergency Medical Services, Inc. was awarded a $7,404.19 grant through the 2020 Volunteer Rescue/EMS Fund from the State of North Carolina.
Mt. Calvary celebrates founder and pastor Elder J. Ervin Reddick
In May 1954, Elder J. Ervin Reddick became the Founder and Pastor of Mt. Calvary FWB Church in La Grange, NC. Beginning with 24 faithful followers, Pastor Reddick remained faithful to the calling as their Pastor.
Fighting misinformation in the hog farming Industry
On Friday, The Guardian published an article titled, ‘The North Carolina hog industry’s answer to pollution: a $500m pipeline project’. Extension Agent Eve Honeycutt set out to set the record straight. “Hog farmers are part of the community. They don’t want anyone else to be affected by anything. They care about the people of their community and don’t have any incentive to do otherwise,” said Honeycutt. Hog farming is a heavily governed industry plagued with nuisance lawsuits and public perception riddled with misinformation. Without the industry, eastern North Carolina would lose a large economic support system.
UNC Lenoir receives Leapfrog group safety grade "A" for a second time in 2020
The Leapfrog Group, a Washington D.C-based organization aiming to improve health care quality and safety for consumers and purchasers, released new Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, which assign A, B, C, D and F letter grades to hospitals nationwide. UNC Lenoir Health Care received an A for the second time this year.