PELETIER — Peletier commissioners Monday night reviewed but took no action on a proposed ordinance to limit potential negative impacts of an eight-acre vegetative waste disposal site planned by Emerald Isle off Highway 58 in town.

BEAUFORT — Carteret County commissioners Monday night postponed a public hearing on a developer’s proposal to rezone 156 acres off Highway 58 near Peletier for a recreational camper park project.

PELETIER — Peletier commissioners voted 3-1 Monday night to spend up to $600 experimenting with videotaping their meetings for public broadcast via a yet-to-be determined platform.

PELETIER — A familiar face took a seat behind the dais in Peletier as Walter Vinson returned to the board of commissioners Monday night.

PELETIER — The Peletier Board of Commissioners Monday night voted unanimously to move $50,000 from the town’s American Recovery Plan Act account to a fund set up to pay for repairs at a historic church the town owns on Peletier Loop Road.

PELETIER — The White Oak River Chapter of the Isaac Walton League of America will hold its annual fundraising oyster roast and barbecue on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 6 p.m.

PELETIER — Peletier commissioners voted 4-0 Monday night to adopt an ordinance to regulate new billboards in town.

PELETIER — Peletier is still moving toward creation and adoption of an ordinance to try to limit what some officials and residents consider to be potential negative impacts of an eight-acre vegetative waste disposal site planned by Emerald Isle off Highway 58 in town.

PELETIER — Town commissioners Monday night voted 3-2 to appoint Walter Vinson to fill the board seat vacated when Walter Krause resigned in September.

PELETIER — Town Commissioner Walter Krause has resigned, effective immediately.

PELETIER — Motorists in the small but rapidly growing western Carteret County town of Peletier are going to need to slow down a bit.

PELETIER — The Western Carteret Fire Department put out a motor home fire and saved a garage and residence Wednesday morning in Peletier.

CAPE CARTERET — Cape Carteret has begun a search for a new police chief to replace Bill McKinney, who recently announced his intent to retire at the end of September.

PELETIER — Simmering tensions among members of the Peletier Board of Commissioners went highly public Monday night as Mayor Dale Sowers and Commissioner Dann Taylor lambasted Commissioner Steven Overby for comments he made on a Facebook page in June.

PELETIER — Peletier commissioners Monday night began the process of finding a replacement for town attorney John Tantum, who resigned effective June 30 after more than five years in the position.

PELETIER — It looks like another record-setting year for calls for service by the Western Carteret Fire and EMS Department, as residential and commercial growth continues in the district.

PELETIER — Peletier is inching toward creation and approval of an ordinance to try to limit potential impacts of a controversial vegetative waste disposal site planned by Emerald Isle off Highway 58.

PELETIER — In the midst of continued rapid development in the area, residents in and near Peletier have begun having monthly meetings to discuss issues.

PELETIER — The speed limit for motorists on Peletier Loop Road has officially been reduced from 45 to 35 mph, thanks to a successful petition drive by Donna Bierly, who lives off the increasingly busy street in the once rural but rapidly growing western Carteret town.

PELETIER — After a public hearing Monday, June 6, Peletier commissioners voted 4-1, with Steven Overby in the minority, to approve the town’s 2022-23 budget, which takes effect July 1.

BEAUFORT — The Carteret County Planning Commission during its Monday, June 13 meeting will discuss a petition to rezone 82.31 acres of property off West Fire Tower Road and Amphitheater Drive near Peletier for a major development project.

PELETIER — Although rezoning a 35-acre site off Highway 24 that would be used by Emerald Isle and Carteret County as a vegetative waste disposal site has been deemed unnecessary for that use, Peletier residents who oppose the plan are still expected to turn out for the town commission meetin…

PELETIER — The White Oak River Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America will host its first open house of the year and a U.S. flag retirement ceremony on Monday, May 30, Memorial Day.

PELETIER — Peletier Mayor Dale Sowers presented town commissioners his proposed 2022-23 budget during the board’s monthly meeting in town hall Monday night.

PELETIER — Town commissioners Monday night agreed by consensus to allow their part-time code enforcement officer to begin gathering price quotes from contractors willing to clean up dangerous and eyesore properties.