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1 week ago | 
wnct.com | Kenneth Roundtree |Elizabeth Pittman
WINTERVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — The town of Winterville hosted “Cycle and Serve,” an all-ages bike rodeo and community service event. At this event, children were able to bring their bikes to ride or borrow one provided to help them learn bike safety skills. “This event is called Cycle and Serve, and it is an opportunity for us to teach children bike safety rules of the road,” Safe Kids Pitt County, Ellen Walston said.
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1 week ago | 
wnct.com | Kenneth Roundtree |Elizabeth Pittman
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Many events marking Juneteenth are happening across the country, with a local church joining in the celebration here in the East. Juneteenth is a federal holiday recognizing the day the last enslaved African Americans in the U.S. learned of their emancipation. In Greenville, Living the Word Ministry held a Juneteenth service at Sycamore Hill Missionary Baptist Church. The theme this year, “Remembering Our Past to Cultivate Our Future.”“Just like anything else.
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3 weeks ago | 
wnct.com | Erin Jenkins |Kenneth Roundtree |Elizabeth Pittman
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (WNCT) — Final preparations are underway for the 67th Annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in Morehead City. Crews along the Morehead City waterfront are putting together the finishing touches in preparation for the thousands expected to arrive on Monday, June 9.
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1 month ago | 
wnct.com | Lauren Beachy |Kenneth Roundtree |Pel Law
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Red Oak Community Fire Department hosted their big chicken barbecue plate sale Friday, May 16. The Fire Department raised money to help re-finish the bay floors in their building, which has become a safety hazard. The $10 BBQ plate included chicken, potatoes, green beans and a roll.
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1 month ago | 
wnct.com | Ken Watlington |Kenneth Roundtree |Elizabeth Pittman
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) –The Methodist Home for Children hosted an event on Thursday, May 15, 2025, to raise awareness for National Foster Care month in May. With more than 15,000 children currently in foster care, this event is important to help raise awareness for foster families, and to recruit new foster parents.
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1 month ago | 
wnct.com | Ken Watlington |Kenneth Roundtree |Elizabeth Pittman
KINSTON, N.C. (WNCT) — On Friday, May 9, 2025, professional baseball returns to historic Grainger Stadium in Kinston with the Down East Bird Dawgs. Crews are already hard at work getting everything ready for not only opening day, but two exhibition games this week, Monday, May 5, and Wednesday, May 7.
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2 months ago | 
wnct.com | Alayna Verduyn |Kristi Cheek |Kenneth Roundtree
NEW BERN, N.C. (WNCT) — Established in 1710, New Bern is one of the oldest towns in North Carolina. It also served as the state’s first capitol and is home to the first Governor’s House, Tryon Palace. “I was in Miss Sadie Dixon’s fifth-grade class, in fact, that’s the room that’s open for the homes tour,” New Bern Historical Society Curator Jim Hodges said. For more than 100 years in New Bern, the building at 517 Hancock Street served as a grade school.
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2 months ago | 
wnct.com | Jordan Honeycutt |Kenneth Roundtree |Mekaela Muck
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
wnct.com | Lauren Beachy |Kenneth Roundtree |Mekaela Muck
WILSON, N.C. (WNCT) — Johnson and Johnson broke ground on their new bio-pharmaceutical facility in Wilson Friday. Governor Josh Stein joined the company in celebrating this milestone. Governor Stein speaks on Johnson and Johnson facility groundbreaking in WilsonWhen the facility opens it will help the company grow their pipeline of transformational medicines. This will also add thousands of jobs here in North Carolina.
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
wnct.com | Lauren Beachy |Kenneth Roundtree
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — On Friday, Governor Josh Stein will join Johnson and Johnson for the groundbreaking of their new facility in Wilson. This will be for their new state-of-the-art biologics facility. The new facility will support plans to advance Johnson and Johnson’s portfolio and pipeline of transformational medicines for cancer, immune-mediated and neurological diseases.
