Two local businessmen recently were honored by a pair of Christian business groups.

Doug Ezzell with Freedom Industries was named the 2016 C12 Member of the Year for the Rocky Mount C12 Group 1, which meets monthly at Benvenue Country Club.

Todd Hinson with Allegra Marketing Print Mail was named…

If you are just getting started on investing, it’s important to get a grasp on the basics. A proper perspective from the beginning may improve your opportunities for long-term investment success. Here are five concepts that can be helpful for new investors to understand:

■ If you are…

CenturyLink recently announced that Edgecombe Early College High School was among the recipients of the CenturyLink Clarke M. Williams Foundation’s Teachers and Technology grant program.

The program, which began in 2008, awards grants of up to $5,000 to schools in CenturyLink’s…

Bob Allen and Michael Allen of Boone, Hill, Allen & Ricks Real Estate recently welcomed their newest agent, Joni Robbins.

Robbins was raised in Edgecombe County and has lived in Nash County for the past 22 years. She is married to Chad Robbins and they have two sons, Anson and Ethan. She worked…

Rocky Mount native Danielle D. Brown recently was sworn in to the New York State Bar.

Brown was duly licensed and admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor-at-law on April 5 by a panel of justices for New York’s Second Judicial Department Appellate Division.

Brown presently works…

Veteran consumer products executive John C. Watson III has joined the senior leadership team at Braswell Family Farms as vice president of sales and marketing.

“John brings an established reputation as an approachable visionary and as a change driver who helps companies to next-level…

So what do you know about the Internet of Things? The dictionary defines the Internet of Things (IoT) as a proposed development of the internet in which everyday objects have network connectivity, allowing them to send and receive data.

IoT has changed the way businesses view assets, manage their…

If you start a business, one of the many things you will have to decide is what type of entity you will be: sole proprietor, partnership, corporation or a LLC. In this article, I will briefly cover the corporation.

First, why do you want to incorporate? There are a number of reasons to incorporate…

Tax Freedom Day generally falls around this time each year. This is the day when the nation as a whole has earned enough money to pay off its total tax bill for the year, according to the calculations made by the Tax Foundation. So you may want to use Tax Freedom Day to think about ways you can…