Havelock News

Proposed new toll and toll increases on coastal ferry routes are unlikely to be implemented July 1 as originally planned, officials said Tuesday.

Trinity Presbyterian Daycare, an institution in Havelock for the last 40 years, is scheduled to close its doors for good at the end of the month.

North, 39, a retired Marine and well-known bouncer at area night clubs, died on April 14 after being shot at the entrance to the bar at 400 Fontana Blvd., as he sought to protect customers inside.

Mills, an adult literacy advocate from New Bern, is one of 10 authors scheduled to participate in the annual Authors Luncheon on Saturday in Havelock.

Nate Johnson has Havelock on his mind, so much so that he brought the National Active and Retired Federal Employees association to the city for its 57th annual state convention this week.

Craig Schadewald, at left, local union president of the New Bern Association of Letter Carriers, discusses plans for this weekend's Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

Taken at KRFD with Minolta SRT101/Kodachrome about 15 years ago. By the way - the C-195 is almost done! Plane over the Swiss fields with the Leman lake and the French Alps in the background.

When New Bern Mayor Lee Bettis was arrested Monday on a possible driving while impaired charge and two other traffic violations for allegedly driving erratically in Havelock, the police report spurred questions about his residency.

New Bern Mayor Lee Bettis, 48, was arrested and charged with driving while impaired and failure to maintain lane control in Havelock on Monday morning.

The N.C. State Highway Patrol is investigating a Monday morning crash that left at least five people injured.

Trooper Eure says that 45-year-old Barrett Vogel of Havelock was driving south on to the U.S. Highway 17 on ramp from Highway 55 when his motorcycle went off the road to the right, struck a guard and ejected him about 30 feet into a nearby wood line.

N.C. Department of Transportation officials said last week that completion of the new service road bridge across Slocum Creek will be later than first planned.

A 2-year-old boy rescued from a house fire in Havelock has been released from the hospital.

A 2-year-old boy rescued from a burning home Tuesday in Havelock continues to recover in the hospital.

Craven County Schools is looking to make connections with community and business leaders, and to that end, hosted a group of about 30 from the Havelock area last week at Havelock Middle School.

Fire crackled and sizzled nearby as police officers lifted Havelock firefighter Charlie Winter head first through a side window of a burning home Tuesday in search of a missing child.

That child, believed to be a toddler, was transported to CarolinaEast Medical Center in New Bern for treatment.

A Havelock man was airlifted to a Greenville hospital after the mo-ped he was riding was struck head-on by a car late Sunday night just outside the city limits.

A four-month investigation targeting the illegal sale of prescription pills and other controlled substances in and around the Craven County area results in charges against nearly two-dozen people.