MOREHEAD CITY — During the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations and businesses have found themselves having to rethink their way of operating.

HARKERS ISLAND — The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center will honor active-duty military, veterans, health care workers, first responders, teachers and school staffs with an All-American Shrimp Fry Saturday, July 10.

Some sports analysts say the greatest men’s college basketball game of all time was played at the Greensboro. Coliseum Complex in 1974.

By Rebecca Jones

NEW BERN — The New Bern Historical Society has reshaped its ABC (Attic, Basement, Closet) Yard sale and will offer a curated array of carefully selected antiques, furniture, collectibles and art on two Saturdays, March 13 and 27 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.  

BEAUFORT — Staff at the N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort recently opened its collections to a group of graduate students from the ECU’s history program.

By Rebecca Jones, special to the News-Times

English settlers established a village at Bath, the first port of entry to North Carolina. In 1705, a small community developed there at the confluence of Bath and Back creeks, tributaries to the Pamlico River.

MOREHEAD CITY — The Rotary Club of Morehead City is sponsoring a live benefit concert at Glad Tidings Church on Friday, April 9 at 7 p.m.

MOREHEAD CITY — Carteret County Empty Bowls will present its 18th annual fundraiser against hunger from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday at One Harbor Church at 1605 Fisher St. in Morehead City.

BEAUFORT — Calling all vendors! The Beaufort Historic Site will host its Publick Day Sale on Saturday, April 24 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. outside on the grounds of the site at 130 Turner St.

MOREHEAD CITY — UScellular has announced that public voting is now open in the company’s sixth annual Black History Month Art Contest with Boys & Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plain.

By Rebecca Jones, special to the News-Times

CARTERET COUNTY — Justice Elite Dance Company is excited to share news and celebrate the dancers. In March, when schools closed, so did the dance studio, forcing everyone to find a way to keep doing what they love, but from the safety of our homes. The group quickly became acclimated to Zoom…

FAYETTEVILLE — N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission staff in Fayetteville is making several fly fishing classes available to participants in Carteret County and beyond through online courses.

BEAUFORT — Girl Scout Troop 857 from Beaufort received the Daisy Dozen award Feb. 3. Troop 857 is a multi-level troop made up of eight girls.

PINE KNOLL SHORES — The Pine Knoll Shores Chapter CY of the Philanthropic Educational Organization sisterhood presented three $800 scholarships to students at Carteret Community College on Feb. 8.

When Tommy Burleson of Newland in Avery County, N.C., appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine on Nov. 29, 1971, he was 19 and yet to play a varsity basketball game at North Carolina State University.

CARTERET COUNTY — The Dockside Chat is an opportunity for the community to speak with people in the know on issues of local importance.

BEAUFORT — The Mattie King Davis Art Gallery is excited to welcome artist Annie Kinney for her first ever solo show on Friday, Feb. 12 from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Burma-Shave made big news in 1958 with a “special roadside offer” on its signage. The message read:

MOREHEAD CITY — February may be the shortest month of the year, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty to do in the lawn and garden to pass the time. While out in the garden don’t forget to stop and smell the flowers. Not all flowers are fragrant, but some of the most fragrant flowers bloo…

NEWPORT — La Musique Club of Carteret County presented its 32nd Miss La Musique Pageant recently in the Fellowship Hall of First United Methodist Church in Morehead City.

CARTERET COUNTY — When schools shifted to remote learning at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, parents and children were propelled into uncharted territory.