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Celebrate “Autumn Days” with Community Artists Gallery & Studios

Community Artists Gallery & Studios will celebrate “Autumn days” this month. Our featured “Artists of the Month” are Eileen Wroe and Heidi DiBella, painters, and Patti Smithwick, silverplate artist. Music will be provided by “Doctor Paul” Hawaii to Carolina, refreshments will be […]
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MumFest Returns — Next Week

The award-winning fall festival, MumFest, is returning to historic Downtown New Bern on October 9 and 10! But this year October is MumMonth and you can celebrate for the entire month! MumFeast! is October 15 and 16 with restaurant dining and artisans […]
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Mum’s the Word Exhibition

Annual MumFest Exhibition Drop Off: October 1 – 2 Mumfest: October 9 – 10 Pick Up: October 29 – 30 Craven Arts Council and Gallery is proud to present the 2021 Mum’s the Word Exhibition in the Main Gallery at the Bank […]
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Jonathan Myers Named to National Coldwell Banker Gen Blue Social Squad

Jonathan Myers has been appointed to the Social Squad for Gen Blue, Coldwell Banker’s national conference that will be held October 4th thru 7th in New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. A residential real estate specialist based in the Jacksonville office […]
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UScellular to Fund Academic and Athletic Youth Organizations

  As New Bern area schools welcome students back to in-person classes and learning, athletic teams, afterschool STEM programs and organizations are looking for ways to continue their respective programming. The pandemic derailed many in-person activities in 2020, forcing some groups to […]
Wendy Card and Artist Maya

New Column will Shine the Spotlight on Local Youth

New Bern Now is proud to announce our new Youth section for young people under 18 years old. Kids, teens, youth groups can send artwork and drawings, photographs they’ve taken, poems, short essay; videos of: singing, dancing, cooking, yo-yo tricks, science project, […]
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Nexus Poets Hosts Upcoming Open Mic — Hybrid Live and Zoom Event

Award-winning poet Priscilla Webster-Williams is the Featured Poet at the Nexus Poets’ First Tuesday Poetry Open Mic at 7 p.m., Tuesday night October 5th. After months of meeting via Zoom the Open Mic is now a hybrid meeting offering a live Zoom […]