The Mount Olive Area Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that Greg Wiggins has been selected as the Grand Marshal for the 2025 Mount Olive Christmas Parade. Each year, the Christmas committee solicits nominations for this prestigious honor. Julie Beck, Mount Olive Chamber President stated, “We are honored to recognize Greg for his long-time commitment to the fire service and to our community. He served a total of 47 years in fire service including a few years at Smith Ch

Literacy Connections is celebrating a year of tremendous growth and inviting the community to renew or join its Friends of Literacy program as 2025 draws to a close. After more than a decade in its previous location, Literacy Connections relocated to Downtown Goldsboro, placing its programs in the heart of the community where students, families, and partners can more easily connect. The move provided a larger learning center for one-on-one tutoring, the Terrace Room event ven

Grateful, Thanks, Blessing, Prayer, Appreciate, Indebted; these are all words that are synonymous with the two holidays we celebrate in November, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. This year more than ever, I feel the need for these words and the heartfelt feelings these words evoke. As our military strives to rebuild and replenish its tools of war, it is simultaneously building up the mental and physical strength of the people that make up that grand machine tasked with the de

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