Commissioners urged citizens to register to vote if not already registered before the primary in Tuesday night's Burke County Board of Commissioner's regular meeting. Burke County Board of Elections Director ,Debbie Mace, presented on voter registration reminding citizens that voter registration cutoff is 5pm Friday, 25 calendar days before the election. Mace said if citizens miss the cutoff date they could register and vote at early voting with the proper forms of identification. Mace claimed to be a big supporter of absentee voting by mail because it helps the elderly and college kids. Anyone who is registered to vote may vote absentee by mail. 17 year olds who will be 18 by the November election may vote in the primary. The bond is the only item on the ballot they cannot vote for. This is because if voters are under 18, they cannot vote on anything that becomes final. They will vote on candidates only for this election. Early voting begins Thursday March 3rd and runs through Saturday March 12th. For more voter information visit burkenc.org.

A new facility coming to Caldwell County will create 82 new jobs. Governor McCrory's announced Wednesday that Krystal Engineering will open a Lenoir-based production facility-ramping up an 82 person workforce during the next five years. The company is a leading global processor of materials for electronics components. Krystal plans to invest $29 million in the new facility due in part to a performance-based grant from the One North Carolina Fund. Hiring for varied positions will begin in late summer.

At the Lenoir City Council meeting on Tuesday, two public hearings regarding amendments to the City's Charter Code of Ordinances Traffic Section were discussed. As a product of these discussions Lenoir's City Council unanimously agreed to allow on-street parking for the 200 block of Church Street between West and Ashe Avenues and agreed in-turn, to remove the 300 block of Church Street in order to eliminate the current "one-way street " designation. Also on Tuesday, City Council approved a request from the Avery Dennison Corporation allowing the company to install four groundwater monitoring wells on City property. The wells will be a part of a voluntary groundwater study conducted by the Avery Dennison Corporation in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.