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Rom My Perspective – Sale of City-Owned Property

A proposed plan by the New Bern Redevelopment Commission would bring new affordable housing units to vacant property near New Bern Towers.

The name Dodge City conjures images of the wild, wild West.  "But also in Dodge City, there was law and order. Matt Dillion kept law and order," said Terre Holloway, co-owner of the Dodge City Market on Main Street in Duffyfield.  On a recent week day, he was showing a visitor the signs on the front door and window - "Welcome and Respect" above and below a star; and "Without vision the people perish" ...Dream.  A woman walking by told him there were two strangers in a pickup truck in the back parking lot.  Holloway, a retired bail bondsman, shook his head. He suspected drugs - sellers or ...

This a good weekend to visit two of New Bern's oldest predominately black neighborhoods to help in a community cleanup and to attend a public Community Resource Fair.  Cleanup volunteers are welcome April 29 through May 1, any amount of time from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. PPE provided and Covid precautions will be in place. Call 349-8274.  The city of New Bern Public Works will assist in supplies and trash haul-away.  Following the end of the Saturday May 1 cleanup, volunteers and the public are invited to the 1 to 3 p.m. Community Resource Fair at The Omega Center, 800 Cedar St.  It includes fre...

The New Bern Redevelopment Commission has reached a milestone in Phase I of its housing program, with plans to build seven to nine new houses and rehab at least one existing property. It centers in a section called “The Avenues,” west of Craven Terrace and bordered by Broad, Miller and Cedar streets. The commission, armed with a 20-year redevelopment plan passed last spring, has worked since then at buying and rehabilitating structures for rentals to create a revenue stream for future housing. Building new homes is now in the plan. Jeff Ruggieri, director of Development Service for the ci...