{"id":102983,"date":"2026-07-13T23:32:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/102983\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:32:37","slug":"several-more-months-before-new-bern-city-hall-clock-is-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/102983\/","title":{"rendered":"Several more months before New Bern City Hall clock is fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The historic clock at New Bern City Hall has been stopped at 4:07 for nearly two months, and it looks like it will stay that way into the fall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/07\/10\/new-bern-waiting-parts-city-hall-clock-repair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/07\/10\/new-bern-waiting-parts-city-hall-clock-repair\/\">The clock requires a full gearbox replacement<\/a> at a cost of $6,000. It is serviced by the Verdin Clock Company in Ohio. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New Bern Public Information Officer Colleen Roberts says the timepiece is expected to arrive in the U.S. from Europe in mid-September. After receiving the timepiece, the Verdin Company will plan a trip to New Bern to make the installation &amp; repair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City officials say the original timeline they gave of 6-8 weeks is for timepieces that have already been built. The one in New Bern is a special build &amp; they need time to source &amp; complete parts &amp; then assemble them for shipping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The clock was also repaired in 2019 as part of a $130,000 project to modernize it and add automated adjustments during daylight saving time.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. NEW BERN,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,38686,6001],"class_list":["post-102983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-new-bern-clock","tag-repair"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116915283108605035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}