Partners In Education and Craven County Schools, Craven Smart Start and Newspapers In Education, are providing an opportunity for our community to donate books for Craven County Schools’ media centers and classrooms. The Book Drive will take place September 19 – 23, […]

Saturday, August 27 at 11:00 We will be standing on the pedestrian bridge over Hwy 70 in James City showing support for those in Law Enforcement. People are encouraged to create banners and signs and bring American flags to the bridge. We […]

Shelby Stephenson, North Carolina’s eighth Poet Laureate, will be the Featured Poet at the First Tuesday Poetry Open Mike on Tuesday September 6. The free program starts at 6:30 pm in the auditorium of the New Bern-Craven County Library at 400 Johnson […]

Submit your announcements by September 15th We’ve already started working on New Bern Now’s Fall – Winter Quarterly Ledger Publication (October – December 2016). If you haven’t already sent us your free announcements and events, send them to us by September 15. If you’re […]

As your new Real Estate Contributor to “New Bern Now,” I thought a great place to begin is to tell you a bit about myself. My History I moved to New Bern from a town about 50 miles north of New York […]

Partners In Education (PIE) is pleased to announce a grant award from The Harold H. Bate Foundation of $15,500 as matching funds for the Cheryl Marteney Beginning Teachers’ Cottage. Early in her career, Ms. Marteney was an educator, and she was a […]

Domestic visitors to and within Craven County spent $130.55 million in 2015, an increase of 2.5 percent from 2014, Visit North Carolina announced today. This is a record high for visitor spending in Craven County based on data collected back to 1990. […]