Cherry-Point News Archives

Marines learned lessons about warfare in an outdoor setting Friday at the New Bern Civil War Battlefield.

Eleven nations are training in Eastern Carolina to improve the way they accomplish missions together.

The flight line at Cherry Point air station could have been called pit lane Thursday as some of the fastest fighter jets in the world came in as part of Exercise Bold Quest 2009.

School officials hope to revive plans for the alternative Early College East school with a grant aimed at helping grow the state's aerospace manufacturing workforce.

Warfighters from the United States and 10 allied nations will assess coalition combat identification systems during a U.S. Joint Forces Command exercise Oct.

The day after CarolinaEast Medical Center officially opened a new 37-bed expansion, members of its administration, staff and hospital board started looking for money to enlarge its emergency room and maternity facilities.

Out of tragedy, Jewel Wall found his voice. He was 12 years old on Feb. 2, 1979, the day his father killed his mother and then committed suicide.

The lights came on in the Greenfield Heights Subdivision at about 10:50 a.m. Thursday as power companies restored electricity to the last of more than 18,000 customers from Havelock to Altantic.

Updated at 10:40 a.m. Power is returning to the east end of Havelock this morning following a Progress Energy transmission outage at 2:30 a.m. In all, the outage affected about 16,000 power customers in Carteret and Craven counties, including about 4,300 in the Havelock area.

Editor's Note: With the city election set for Nov. 3, the Havelock News had all four candidates for mayor answer the same basic questions for these profiles.

Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point is in the running to house the consolidation of several Marine Corps anti-terrorism units, along with two military bases in Virginia.

Graham A. Barden Elementary School students can now run around in a dry circle instead of muddy oval.

First Citizens Bank opens a branch in the Slocum Shopping Center. 1961 Commissioners adopt a resolution seeking nine acres of government surplus property in the old Splinterville area.

Cynthia Veniskey, left, feeds 3-year-old Zachary Veniskey red chili on Saturday at the Havelock Chili Festival.

A total of 240 Marines from Marine Wing Support Squadron 271 returned from Iraq to their home base at Cherry Point Marine air station on Thursday at about 8 p.m. They were the second of four or five waves of Marines from the 600 deployed with the squadron six months ago.

MCAS Cherry Point is one of three bases being considered for a new, consolidated counter-terrorism command for the Marine Corps Security Force Regiment.

The Craven County Board of Education is planning to ask state lawmakers to exempt school and activity buses from stopping at the railroad crossing at James City where a Cherry Point Marine was killed in a recent crash.

Sue Arden won't reveal all the ingredients to the sauce that coats her hot wings.

A bomb squad from Cherry Point has arrived at New Bern's yard waste facility for possible explosive devices discovered in the trash.

Ernest Conner, Havelock's first police officer and unofficial police chief, resigns.

Deciding to sign a partnership with Havelock Middle School was a natural thing for the personnel of Marine Attack Squadron 542.

When born, Tiernan Liam Zane Gwynn was shorter than a standard ruler and weighed less than a bottled soft drink.

The Marines are part of Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 4. They were in Iraq for six months.

Three of Havelock's mayoral candidates offered some similar and different views of the city during a forum Monday night at the Havelock Tourist and Event Center.

Bad blood between two groups at a night club last week ended with blood being spilled in an apparent knife attack.

Two incumbent commissioners and one challenger expressed their varying views of Havelock during a candidates forum Monday night at the Havelock Tourist and Event Center.

A fire damaged a home on Webb Boulevard in Havelock Wednesday afternoon. The Havelock Fire Department received a call at about 1:40 p.m. about the fire.

A new director has been hired for the civilian Military Growth Task Force that is helping the region plan for the presence of new military and military-related personnel.

A Cherry Point Marine died Thursday evening as a result of injuries from a car collision with a stopped school bus that occurred that morning in James City.

A Jacksonville man was injured after driving his sport utility vehicle off Catfish Lake Road and into a ditch Friday afternoon.