Justin Falls/The Daily Advance Elizabeth City Parks and Recreation Director Jim Overman's last day before retirement is today. Overman, 64, seen in this photo taken Thursday inside the gymnasium at the Knobbs Creek Recreation Center, worked 37 years with the city's parks and rec department.
As Jim Overman’s 37-year career with the Elizabeth City Parks and Recreation Department ends today, he’s going out on top: Earlier his week he was presented a meritorious service award at the annual meeting of the N.
EDENTON — College of The Albemarle needs as much as $5.6 million to unite its two satellite campuses in Chowan County, but county officials said this week they don’t have that kind of money to help.
The Pasquotank County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Monday to pay the county manager and county attorney a 1 percent cost-of-living adjustment that all other county employees received for 2008-09.
Brett A. Clark/The Daily Advance Area farmers and their families gather for dinner during the Farm-City Week Tri-County Banquet at the K.E. White Center, Thursday.
Area farmers seem to be weathering the recession OK. Now if the ground will just dry from last week’s nor’easter so they can get back in the fields and plant wheat and harvest their remaining soybeans.
A Currituck County man has been charged with multiple counts of statutory rape and indecent liberties with a minor after he was arrested in Pennsylvania.