Help Wanted: Child Support Agent II

As a member of the Department of Social Services with Lenoir County Government, you can make a difference! The agency is seeking candidates for a Child Support Agent II. Candidates in this classification are responsible for the initiation, organization, and enforcement of child support orders in the Child Support Enforcement (IV-D) program.

Cooking with Tammy Kelly: Tired of Thanksgiving Leftovers?

Did your turkey outlast your Thanksgiving lunch?  Are you on dressing and mashed potato overload?  No problem, try a new gourmet turkey sandwich, a healthy turkey salad or stir your turkey with some vegetables!  There are so many ways to use leftovers; never let them go to waste.  You certainly have free rein over the recipe ingredients to change or make additions according to your leftovers!

Kristy Kelly: Happiness is a struggle

Mental illness has a way of warping even the mundane into something darkly comedic.
I have spent my entire life planning to survive. That’s it, to survive. At first, I survived on instinct, then anger, and finally out of spite. When stress is a comfort zone and anxiety is a security blanket, normalcy becomes subjective. Apparently, I can now turn happiness into abject terror.

Evelyn Coleman Dove: Generational Wealth

When I was growing up, certain wealthy families were always in the news.  People who were on the cutting edge of the next new thing were able to amass wealth. It was a common thing to say a person was living like the Rockefellers or Vanderbilts when they bought a lot of things.