Un-American City?

By William R. Toler

The city of Kinston was named as one of the top-ten All American cities last week along with Statesville.

But some citizens in Lenoir County would beg to differ with that decision.

Earlier this month, city leaders voted 3-2 to annex the neighborhood of Crestview and other communites along Hwy 258, although there had been protests and threats of law suits, according the Kinston Free Press.

North Carolina is one of two states in which involuntary annexation is legal. Nebraska is the other.

Mayor “Buddy Rich” made a statment during one interview saying that if people didn’t want to live in the city, then they shouldn’t have moved to an area that would be annexed. What a pompus thing to say.