From the Pamlico County Board of Commissioners Meeting, March 17, 2025
Down in the County
Meeting Notes and the Budget
From the Pamlico County Board of Commissioners meeting, March 3, 2025, and the March 10, 2025, Pamlico County Commissioners Budget Meeting
Construction of county’s $67M school is underway with funding from the state
Nearly a decade ago, John Prescott woke up from a deep sleep, he said, with his head filled with a dream that his future granddaughter was playing and being educated at a new school complex. That dream became fully formed in the Pamlico County School Board chairman’s...
For its founder, YNTO’s after-school program is a dream fulfilled
Jones is the founder of Youth Navigating Toward Opportunity (YNTO), a nonprofit that provides after-school programming for over 40 low-income kids from Pamlico County. YNTO started out as Jones’s senior project during high school, years before it became an official ...
Meeting Notes: Grantsboro housing approved
From the Pamlico County Board of Commissioners meeting, Feb. 17, 2025
Meeting Notes: New housing and Pamlico County schools update
From the Pamlico County Board of Commissioners meeting Feb. 3, 2025
Tim Buck: A life of public service
After 19 years as Pamlico’s county manager, Tim Buck attended his last county commissioners meeting on Monday, January 27. He sat in his usual shirt and tie with his wife and family behind him as his retirement was officially recognized by the county commissioners...
Local barbecue from the Krazy Karpenter in Goose Creek
This is good ol’ Eastern North Carolina barbecue—the kind with iconic vinegar-based red chili flake floating sauce. The kind that people like me continue to talk about after eating. Hugh usually reserves his smile for barbecue talk. He is a tall man, with a gentle...
Meeting Notes
From the Pamlico County Board of Commissioners meeting, Jan. 27 , 2025
Down in the County’s Reporter in Residence
El grew up in Farmville, NC, not far from Pamlico County, and is excited to get to know all of you—to listen to your ideas, concerns and, most importantly, to document Pamlico County’s living history, he said. A December 2024 graduate of the University of North...
Meeting Notes: Solar Energy Ordinance and Wind Farms Discussed
From the Pamlico County Board of Commissioners Meeting, March 17, 2025
Meeting Notes and the Budget
From the Pamlico County Board of Commissioners meeting, March 3, 2025, and the March 10, 2025, Pamlico County Commissioners Budget Meeting
Construction of county’s $67M school is underway with funding from the state
Nearly a decade ago, John Prescott woke up from a deep sleep, he said, with his head filled with a dream that his future granddaughter was playing and being educated at a new school complex. That dream became fully formed in the Pamlico County School Board chairman’s...
For its founder, YNTO’s after-school program is a dream fulfilled
Jones is the founder of Youth Navigating Toward Opportunity (YNTO), a nonprofit that provides after-school programming for over 40 low-income kids from Pamlico County. YNTO started out as Jones’s senior project during high school, years before it became an official ...
Meeting Notes: Grantsboro housing approved
From the Pamlico County Board of Commissioners meeting, Feb. 17, 2025
Meeting Notes: New housing and Pamlico County schools update
From the Pamlico County Board of Commissioners meeting Feb. 3, 2025
Tim Buck: A life of public service
After 19 years as Pamlico’s county manager, Tim Buck attended his last county commissioners meeting on Monday, January 27. He sat in his usual shirt and tie with his wife and family behind him as his retirement was officially recognized by the county commissioners...
Local barbecue from the Krazy Karpenter in Goose Creek
This is good ol’ Eastern North Carolina barbecue—the kind with iconic vinegar-based red chili flake floating sauce. The kind that people like me continue to talk about after eating. Hugh usually reserves his smile for barbecue talk. He is a tall man, with a gentle...
Meeting Notes
From the Pamlico County Board of Commissioners meeting, Jan. 27 , 2025
Down in the County’s Reporter in Residence
El grew up in Farmville, NC, not far from Pamlico County, and is excited to get to know all of you—to listen to your ideas, concerns and, most importantly, to document Pamlico County’s living history, he said. A December 2024 graduate of the University of North...