Saturday, September 7, 2024
The following Wilson Community College students, enrolled during the summer semester received the president’s or dean’s list honor: PRESIDENT’S LIST To be eligible for the president’s list, a student must have a 4.0 grade point...
Terry Keene had been wanting her husband, Jerry, to get his hearing checked. Jerry, who had worked around machinery his entire career, started noticing he was having difficulty hearing his grandchildren. “I need to do...
Wilson Police charged two men and two juveniles each with five counts of attempted murder in connection with an Aug. 28 shooting into an occupied dwelling on Gold Street. Tylan Santana Bryant, 19, of Kinston,...
Wilson City Manager Grant Goings was presented the Paul Harris Community Award on June 25 during the Wilson Rotary Club’s annual installation banquet. The award is presented by the Wilson Rotary Club and the Greater...
An SUV was destroyed after it caught fire in the parking lot of Pioneer Jewelry, Music and Pawn Thursday afternoon. Wilson Fire/Rescue Services was dispatched and arrived on the scene to find a single passenger...
Two Wilson teens are practicing tricks to compete in the World Wake Association World Wakeboard Championships scheduled Sept. 21-24 in Gold Coast, Australia. Just a month ago, 14-year-old Ezra O’Neal...
Students have quickly gotten into a routine as they pass through new state-of-the-art weapon detection systems each morning at Hunt, Fike and Beddingfield high schools. District officials say they are...
The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office modeled this year’s active shooter response training after the 2022 Uvalde, Texas, school shooting. “There’s a lot of lessons learned from the tragedy at Uvalde,”...
THUMBS UP to the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office for its commitment to protecting students and teachers from harm. Deputies converged on the vacant Winstead Elementary School building for an active...
In honor of Labor Day, the Times is republishing an editorial from Sept. 4, 1976, that describes the holiday’s history and significance. Labor Day is one of the most used...
If you’ve ever looked up a state statute or skimmed a click-to-consent contract and considered the dense text as difficult to parse as a foreign language, researchers at the Massachusetts...
I’ve always felt that working in customer-facing jobs is my calling. I’m passionate about making people feel comfortable when they enter a business, be it a retail store or a...
With the presidential campaigns in full force, one question people are asking is if a president can control the economy. In fact, I’ve had this question put to me by...
Recently, the state of North Carolina received an encouraging report from our Department of Public Instruction. Across the state, public school enrollment is up from what was previously projected. While...
Thursday, Aug. 29 was a hot night in downtown Wilson, but it was cool inside the Wilson Arts Center as the art community showed up for Jahn Anderson’s opening reception....
I live in northern Minnesota, and Gov. Tim Walz has done nothing for our part of the state. He referred to northern MN as the land of rows and cows....
Dante Pittman is better for House District 24 and for North Carolina than Rep. Ken Fontenot, and this is never clearer than when their respective positions on K-12 education are...
