{"id":125986,"date":"2026-09-04T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/125986\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:53:11","slug":"enc-parks-awarded-state-grants-to-fund-improvement-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/125986\/","title":{"rendered":"ENC parks awarded state grants to fund improvement projects"},"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; Several parks across eastern Carolina are getting a boost in funding from the state. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Governor Josh Stein announced that $10 million in grants will go toward improvement projects at 25 parks across the state through the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Spooner Creek Conservation Park in Morehead City, Martin Marietta Park in New Bern and Warsaw Memorial Park in Warsaw received $500,00 each. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Newport Community Park was awarded $390,000, and Farrior Park in Wallace received over $350,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Local communities apply for the grant to fund land acquisition, new recreation facilities or improvements to existing parks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The state says PARTF has provided nearly $14 million in county and municipal grants this fiscal year, including $4 million awarded through the Helene Recovery Fund. <\/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":125987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,17634,61468,61464,107,61466,61467,2119,61465,61469,105],"class_list":["post-125986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-josh-stein","tag-martin-marietta-park","tag-morehead-city","tag-new-bern","tag-newport","tag-newport-community-park","tag-parks","tag-spooner-creek-conservation-park","tag-warsaw","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117213344915845514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125986","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=125986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}