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. […]

Artists in 29 counties are eligible for the regional awards Bank of the Arts, 317 Middle St, New Bern September 9th, 2016 The Craven Arts Council is seeking applications for the 2016 – 2017 Regional Artist Project Grants. The deadline to apply […]

19th: Lunch and Learn: Meet the Martins, 12:00pm at the North Carolina History Center. Call 252-639-3500. 20th: Parking Lot Yard Sale benefiting the Children’s Miracle Network, 8:00am – 11:00am at Walmart in Havelock. 20th: META-Mudder Neuse River Mud Run at 10:00am. For details […]