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We at the Sun Journal we are thankful for much in this bountiful year.       We are thankful for our readers and our advertisers, of course. Without both of them together, we simply wouldn’t …

Students and faculty got a bit of a scare Monday morning when a student was spotted with a handgun and the college immediately initiated a “lockdown” procedure. When the alarm was sounded, a centra…

GateHouse Media During an interview last week, Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend left little doubt about the evil he was seeing in the Iraqi city of Mosul: “It is the toughest and most brutal close-quar…

We don't know about you, but we've come to expect that New Bern will be included when travel magazines and websites come out with lists of best places to visit in North Carolina, most charming places…

HB2 is gone. The Senate and House repealed it Thursday and Gov. Roy Cooper signed the legislation. The next hurdle is an important one: Is this repeal measure enough to end the opposition of Big Bu…

Weather conditions make this time of year ripe for wildfires. Brunswick County had a significant wildfire last April. Then toward the end of last year, North Carolina experienced its worst wildfire o…

So there’s a changing of the guard in the governor’s mansion. The question now is, will it mean anything? After a nearly monthlong battle, Republican Gov. Pat McCrory conceded the election to Roy …

Heated rivals took the field on Monday night to play a football game — 18 days after it started. On Oct. 6, the Havelock Rams and West Craven Eagles started their game. Two top 10 teams in the sta…

Once again Eastern North Caroline finds itself in the path of danger. Deadly Hurricane Matthew will be raging up the coast today, and the region could be experiencing 50 mph winds or more by nightfal…