Few policy battles in the past decade have been as hotly debated as those involving changes to the state’s commercial fishing industry. The latest in the series could be the most heated yet. On Tuesday, five advisory committees to the state’s Marine Fisheries Commission meet in New Bern to hear from the public on a […]
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At sea with the new book from Crook’s Corner’s Bill Smith
From my grandmother’s house, we could walk to the river and often did,” Bill Smith says. “We always had some family who lived down there. I can walk there from my mother’s house today.” It is Labor Day, and Bill Smith is describing his hometown of New Bern while eyeing the action at the downtown […]

