2016 Christmas Flotilla Winners

2016 Christmas Flotilla Winners Announced

New Text to Vote App launched to select crowd favorite The New Bern Grand Marina Yacht Club and Nicole Dewar, New Bern Parks and Recreation, presented the 2016 Flotilla winners with gifts and awards last week for their participation in this year’s […]
Weekend Events New Bern

Restaurants open on Christmas Eve and Day and New Year’s Eve and Day

Here’s a list of Restaurants that will be open in the greater New Bern area on Christmas Eve (CE), Christmas Day (CD), New Year’s Eve (NYE), and New Year’s Day (NYD). Please note the abbreviations next to their names as to what […]
Fall PIE Grant Winners 2016-17

Fall Cycle Partners In Education Grant Winners

The Board of Directors of Craven County Partners In Education recently announced the winners of the Fall Cycle PIE Grants for creative and imaginative programs in Craven County Schools’ classrooms. The school principals accepted the checks on behalf of their teachers at […]
New Bern Parks and Recreation

Intro to Drawing Life-like Portraits from Photographs Workshop

Are you interested in learning how to draw realistically? Then this workshop is for you! Intro to Drawing Life-like Portraits from Photographs is a workshop designed to teach inexperienced individuals the art of reproducing a photograph in graphite. We will learn how […]
Contributing Author: Peggy Walker Barnes

When the Holidays Are Not So Holly Jolly

The Christmas songs are screaming out lyrics of FaLaLaLaLa, It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, while in your head you are screaming, “I can’t wait until Christmas is over!” Many people experience pain […]
Mary Ann LeRay

Mary Kay Independent Sales Director Earns Vehicle for Outstanding Business Performance

Mary Kay Independent Sales Director Mary Ann Bender LeRay of Pollocksville, NC has earned the use of a new Chevy Equinox crossover as a result of her outstanding achievements in her Mary Kay business. LeRay and her team will take delivery of […]
Christmas Memories by June Kent

Christmas Memories of growing up in the 1940s and 50s

I was born in 1940 in such different times from now.  Life seemed so simple but I realize now it was not so for many.  We did not have a lot of money but my mother was a genius at stretching a […]