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The biggest way to reduce energy use and costs during a summer heat wave is to raise the thermostat for your air conditioning. You need to find the highest setting that is mostly comfortable for you; it might be 80 degrees for one person and 82 degrees for another.

In extreme heat, if your setting is too low, your air conditioning unit will never reach the desired temperature, but it will keep running, and your electric meter will keep spinning.

Nudge the setting up and try these additional measures to stay cool and not get burned by high summer electric bills.

Four students will begin the fall semester with scholarships from Carteret-Craven Electric Co-op and the Carteret-Craven Electric Foundation.

The foundation awards up to four scholarships each year, two at Craven Community College and two at Carteret Community College. This year’s recipients are Sarah Marie Stoll, of Newport, Teia Marshall, of Newport; Adrianna Fields of Maysville, and Ashton Baker, of Havelock.

Two area middle school students have some skills and new friends after attending summer basketball camps recently at two of the state’s largest college campuses.

Keeley O’Brien from Broad Creek Middle School attended the NC State Wolfpack Women’s Basketball Camp June 11-14, and Antonio King from Havelock Middle School attended the Roy Williams Carolina Basketball Camp at the UNC-Chapel Hill June 17-21.

Two area middle school students have some skills and new friends after attending summer basketball camps recently at two of the state’s largest college campuses.

Keeley O’Brien from Broad Creek Middle School attended the NC State Wolfpack Women’s Basketball Camp June 11-14, and Antonio King from Havelock Middle School attended the Roy Williams Carolina Basketball Camp at the UNC-Chapel Hill June 17-21.