Johnston Now Magazine

09/04/2026

Last night's Johnston County Education Foundation Adult Spelling Bee was an awesome event that brought the community together to have some fun and raise money to support teachers in JoCo! It was our pleasure to be a part of it. If you missed out...we hate it for ya! Make sure to sign up next year!

09/04/2026

Food has a remarkable way of preserving memories.

09/03/2026

DO YOU HAVE A HARVEST FESTIVAL STORY?

The Clayton Chamber of Commerce is looking for people who have been part of the Harvest Festival throughout its 75 year history. Were you a beauty queen in the 1970s? Does your family have a photograph of your grandfather at the festival in the 1950s? Did you volunteer, participate in an event or have another connection?

The Clayton Chamber of Commerce would like to hear from you! Contact them if you have a story, photograph or memory to share.

By Jamie Strickland For 75 years, the Clayton Harvest Festival has brought people together in downtown Clayton. The crops, the themes and the attractions have changed, but the tradition has remained the same. What began in 1951 as a celebration tied to important parts of Clayton’s agricultural and...

09/03/2026

Congrats to Coates Hearing Clinic of Smithfield!

09/02/2026

Our editor learns a new vocabulary word this month

By Jamie Strickland I recently came across a word I’d never heard before: philomath. I don’t exactly love how that rolls off the tongue, but I do love what it means. A philomath is someone who loves learning just for the sake of it, continues to study new things throughout…

09/01/2026

Leaving a legacy

09/01/2026

Hard copies are out for delivery, but the digital version is live now:

In this edition, we catch up with a Selma business filling a niche in the local flooring market.

08/18/2026

Get caught up on the upcoming Johnston County High School Football season with our podcast!

Justin Roy and I are back to break down the offseason and talk about Week 1 in the debut episode of the JoCo Sports Football Podcast — season two. We're playing around with video, but based on our current budget (see below), I'm not making any promises. There are no…

08/12/2026

By Randy Capps Under current NCHSAA regulations, only eight football teams can win a state championship. That’s one in each classification, and Clayton fell one game short of winning the 7A crown with a 24-14 loss to nationally-ranked Grimsley in the title game in Chapel Hill. The journey, which i...