Trent Woods News

Santa waved at some of the hundreds of children who turned out for a chilly afternoon Christmas parade in Trent Woods on Sunday.

Friday was a festival holiday at Coastal Carolina Regional Airport in New Bern. About 90 first-graders from nearby Creekside Elementary School sang Christmas carols for a crowd of nearly 100 people at the airport Friday morning.

David Muse, the city engineer who has helped shepherd New Bern through more than a decade of growth and development, died suddenly Friday afternoon, apparently from a heart attack.

Questions about who was in charge at February cooperative law enforcement drivers checkpoint in Bridgeton is at the core of a Craven County woman's defense against a driving while impaired charge now in District Court.

The winner of a prestigious military award for service in Iraq has family members in the New Bern area.

New Bern Vote by Precinct Precinct Registered Vote Percent Grantham 2B 1,876 748 39.87 George Street 2,394 589 24.6 Fort Totten 2,740 377 13.76 Grover C. Fields 1,998 449 22.47 H.J. MacDonald 4,169 583 13.98 West New Bern 4,565 1,170 25.63 Provisional 22 Mail Absentee 69 Curbside 36 Results are now official from Nov.

New Bern's Waldenbooks is on the list of about 200 mall-based stores that parent company Borders Group intends to close by January.

When a Food Lion shopper came out of the store on Saturday with a canned food donation, a green caterpillar and Alice from Lewis Carroll's story "Alice in Wonderland" burst into applause.

Chuck Tyson will return for a second term as the town's mayor, after winning more votes than a former mayor who was previously elected to the post twice.

Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. today. If you are unsure of your polling place, go to www.sboe.state.nc.us. From there, click on "Voter Registration," then click "Check Your Registration," then "Voter Lookup." Enter your name and county, and the Web site will show you the nearest polling place.

Residents of Trent Woods will soon decide whether to amend the town's charter to stagger, and add time to, the terms served by the mayor and commissioners.

For years, Trent Woods and New Bern have been wrangling to try to amicably finish a sewer-project contract between the city and the town.

Katherine Bland Sawyer of New Bern and Colin Robert Boyle of Alexandria, Va., were united in marriage on Aug.

Most of the hundreds of people who came to Pamlico County Heritage Day were looking for a glimpse into the rural county's past - built on farming, fishing and forestry.

The American Red Cross notified the Coastal Carolina Chapter by e-mail on Tuesday that its help might be needed for Atlanta-area flood victims, and Thursday morning two local volunteers were in Georgia ready to work.

It was a toss-up between patrons and artists on who was happier with the Craven Arts Council's new format for its annual auction fundraiser at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center.

Elizabeth "Lib" Bryan was one of the first residents of what is now the town of Trent Woods , and she had no neighbors to speak of when she and her husband moved into their house on Tenella Lane along the Trent River.

Editor's note: See Friday's Sun Journal for additional coverage about Wednesday's mayoral forum.

For the past two years, Judy Wright traveled from her home near Hickory for a special visit with her daughter Dana Willis near Goldsboro - with a destination at Waldenbooks in the New Bern Mall.

A class of about 25 fifth graders at Bridgeton Elementary School sat quietly watching President Barack Obama's nationwide address at noon on Tuesday as part of a lesson on goal-setting and other issues.