Valedictorians and salutatorians at area high schools are ready to leave their mark on the world — and some plan to return to the area to leave that mark here.

Wearing an apron bearing the words “Art Diva,” Tracy Whichard watches as children in her art class paint unicorns and dragons in colorful, bright hues.

This plant family has many edible members. It also has many poisonous ones. In fact, many of the edible solanaceous plants often have poisonous components.

Black nightshade is a common weed in our area. It inhabits sunny locations, so one would assume it’s present in agricultural fields and…

Kjuaan Gibbs, 18, used his long arms to push himself in his wheelchair to a spot by the podium.

The Elizabeth City Foundation recently awarded a total of $72,845 in scholarships to Camden and Pasquotank County students for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Fatherhood from the view of a father and a son leaves me immensely grateful, but with a tinge of unease on the grading of my performance as a dad. That’s probably normal to look back at the highs and lows and how we manned-up as fathers over the years.

My own father’s experience as a…

Our newest exhibit, “Look Again: Discovering Historical Photos” is now open to the public.

There are over 35 photographs on display that are part of a traveling exhibit from the North Carolina Museum of History located in Raleigh. Two cases of artifacts including ambrotypes,…

With her yellow lab, Stella, and her Maltese, Minnie Pearl, at her feet Lina Bateman asks Alexa to play John Denver. She then starts to paint.

Whether it is a picturesque landscape of a river or a cottage by the ocean, Bateman uses her brushstrokes to capture the beauty of northeastern North…

We’re all familiar with the term GMO, or genetically modified organism, and many have already made up their minds about these crops. Unfortunately, most people don’t really know how they were developed or how they are different from any other commodity.

That doesn’t stop opinions…

I got a chance to go to the Step of Faith concert at First Baptist Church in Elizabeth City on May 31 and I’m glad I did.

We didn’t get advance tickets because I wasn’t sure I would finish work early enough that afternoon to be able to make it.

But it turns out I finished in…