Kelly Batchelor
Program Director/All Things Considered HostKelly Batchelor hails from the small crossroads community of Cabin in Duplin County in Eastern North Carolina. Since 1989 Kelly has been actively employed in radio.
Kelly's first full-time broadcast job was with WAVY/ 99.5 FM. The New Bern start-up station, with an adult contemporary/jazz format, was a great training ground. Working six days a week on six-and-a-half-hour on-air shifts, Kelly was soon quite comfortable behind the microphone. She also served as public service director and assistant music director.
After a couple of years with WAVY Kelly went on to WSFL 106.5 FM where she eventually took a role as a morning show host, producer, and news director for the active rock station.
After many years with WSFL, Kelly moved to Florence, SC, to take a position with Cumulus Broadcasting. Her time away from eastern North Carolina was brief as she discovered after 10 years in commercial radio that she had become disillusioned with the numerous staff, ownership, and format changes in mainstream radio. After a year-long vacation from radio, Kelly found her way to Public Radio East.
In addition to being the Program Director, Kelly plays a pivotal role as All Things Considered's local host. As you listen to Kelly delivering ENC's most in-depth newscasts, it appears that she's made the transition from rock and roll to public radio flawlessly. She says, "I'm certainly enjoying the interaction with our listeners. And I'm very proud to be associated with reliable, intelligent, and informative radio that fulfills its mission of connecting eastern North Carolina to the world".
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Governor Roy Cooper directed $3 million in new federal funding to provide support for aspiring teachers to become fully licensed teachers in North Carolina.
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President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are turning to a select group of negotiators to help broker a deal to increase the nation’s borrowing authority and avoid the economic carnage that would ensue if a deal is not reached soon.
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Duke Energy will raise rates 4.8% beginning June 1st for residential customers in Asheville, Raleigh and eastern North Carolina. That includes a temporary 2.8% hike while regulators consider a permanent three-year increase and another 2% increase because of the expiration of a federal tax refund that had been offsetting rates.
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The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) Has assessed a more than $70 thousand dollar penalty against World Cat Greenville for air quality violations.
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Republican lawmakers say their proposed North Carolina budget addresses inflation.
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North Carolina House Republicans have approved a measure that would require sheriffs to help federal agents interested in picking up jail inmates they believe are in the country illegally.
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Autopsy results show that a former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP died by suicide.
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What could become the final push to expand Medicaid in North Carolina has started at the General Assembly.
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Some of those students left for private school, homeschooling or moved out of state.
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North Carolina has awarded over $3 million to support recovery programs for college students with substance use disorders.