CEDAR POINT — The Western Carteret Interlocal Cooperation Agency Board of Directors voted unanimously Wednesday night to set a public hearing for Wednesday, March 17 on Western Carteret Fire and EMS Department Chief Kevin Hunter’s preliminary fiscal 2021-22 budget.

CEDAR POINT — Emergency officials are responding to a serious motor vehicle collision near Angie’s Lighthouse Café on Highway 58 in Cedar Point as of 2:40 p.m. Wednesday.

OCEAN — Broad and Gales Creek and Western Carteret emergency crews have reportedly cleared the scene of a multi-vehicle collision that occurred Tuesday afternoon near the intersection of Highway 24 and Red Barn Road in Ocean. 

CEDAR POINT — The Western Carteret Interlocal Cooperation Agency Board of Directors will formally receive and review Western Carteret Fire and EMS Department Chief Kevin Hunter’s proposed fiscal 2021-22 budget during a meeting Wednesday.

CEDAR POINT — Town commissioners are set to vote at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday on a request to rezone a 2.21-acre tract off a private driveway that leads into Cedar Point Villas.

CEDAR POINT — Cedar Point Mayor Scott Hatsell and town commissioners agreed Thursday night to ask Carteret County officials to change the way state-shared sales tax revenue is distributed among county municipalities.

CEDAR POINT — Cedar Point commissioners will hold a public hearing Thursday night on a proposal to rezone property west of Waterway RV Park and just north of Cedar Point Villas for a golf cart and boat storage business.

CEDAR POINT — The Cedar Point Planning Board will hold a special meeting Thursday at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom to discuss a request to rezone a parcel west of Waterway RV Park from R-10 (residential with a minimum lot size of 10,000 square feet) to Conditional LIW (light industrial warehouse) district.

CEDAR POINT — The Cedar Point Planning Board unanimously recommended Tuesday night that town commissioners approve a Unified Development Ordinance amendment to allow contractors’ offices in the B-1 (general business) zoning district.

CEDAR POINT — The Western Carteret Interlocal Cooperation Agency Board of Directors met Wednesday night but tabled its planned discussion of the Western Carteret Fire and EMS Department’s budget for 2021-22.

CEDAR POINT — Cedar Point commissioners agreed by consensus Tuesday night to give the public works department’s office inside town hall to new code enforcement officer and building inspector Kaitlin DeGrasse.

CEDAR POINT — Cedar Point Town Manager David Rief said Tuesday the state agency that awarded the town a $1.01 million grant for a land purchase has agreed to let officials hold two events per year on the property.

BOGUE BANKS — As the coronavirus pandemic continues with no signs of letting up any time soon, municipal officials throughout Carteret County have learned to adjust to virtual meetings and other changes designed to limit in-person contact with the public.

CEDAR POINT — Cedar Point commissioners Thursday night unanimously approved a special-use permit to allow Morehead City-based hospital Carteret Health Care to build a medical clinic and lab off Highway 24.

CEDAR POINT — The Western Carteret Interlocal Cooperation Agency Board of Directors’ budget committee Wednesday night reviewed Western Carteret Fire and EMS Department Chief Kevin Hunter’s preliminary 2021-22 budget and forwarded it to the full board for review next week.

CEDAR POINT — Cedar Point commissioners Thursday night will hold a hearing on a proposed special-use permit that would allow Carteret Health Care to build a three-story medical clinic and laboratory off Highway 24 in the Villas of Magens Bay development.

BEAUFORT — Authorities with the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office have arrested three people on a series of narcotics-related charges after they allegedly distributed methamphetamine in and around eastern North Carolina.

CEDAR POINT — The Cedar Point Planning Board voted unanimously Jan. 5 to recommend town commissioners rezone a lot at 512 Highway 24 from residential to business.

CEDAR POINT — Town Manager David Rief said Wednesday he has hired Kaitlin DeGrasse of Swansboro to fill the new full-time position of code enforcement officer and building inspector.

CEDAR POINT — The Cedar Point Planning Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to recommend commissioners approve a Unified Development Ordinance amendment and begin to clear the way for a new Carteret Health Care building off the south side of Highway 24.

CARTERET COUNTY — 2021 is upon us, but last year the News-Times covered challenges ranging from major redevelopment, to a feral cat trapping program, to a ban on ocean recreation, to rough weather and everything in between, all while covering a pandemic that transformed nearly everything.

CEDAR POINT — The Cedar Point Planning Board will take up a proposed planned unit development ordinance amendment for a new building for Carteret Health Care, among other items, when it meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

CEDAR POINT — Newly minted Town Manager David Rief has big plans for Cedar Point in 2021.

CEDAR POINT — The town of Cedar Point has a new administrative assistant, and, starting Monday, new town hall hours.