Camden mulls zoning change allowing ‘granny flats’

By Cindy Beamon | February 22, 2012 - 9:52pm

CAMDEN — Camden residents may be allowed to build “granny flats” next door to their homes if a proposed zoning change passes next month.

Report: Park, marina could alter South Mills

By Cindy Beamon | February 21, 2012 - 8:17pm

CAMDEN — Motorists on U.S. Highway 17 often drive by South Mills Village without knowing it’s there. But that could be different in the future, says a team of East Carolina University students offering their advice to Camden County officials.

Lights Out? Ruritans may pull plug in South Mills

By Cindy Beamon | February 21, 2012 - 8:16pm

CAMDEN — The street lights in South Mills Village may go out — unless the county agrees to pay the electric bill.

Camden stormwater panel eyes problem drainage areas

By Cindy Beamon | February 19, 2012 - 9:17pm

CAMDEN — A newly formed stormwater advisory committee is identifying problem areas before deciding how best to fund improvements.

Bait, tackle shop opens on Currituck/Camden border

By William F. West | February 18, 2012 - 6:42pm

CURRITUCK — David Jackson said he had long been thinking about having his own bait and tackle shop.

Camden seeks $750K in grants

By Cindy Beamon | February 14, 2012 - 12:51pm

CAMDEN — Camden will be seeking $750,000 in state grants in the next month to help low-income families with housing improvements.

Camden budget on sound footing

By Cindy Beamon | February 9, 2012 - 9:55pm

CAMDEN — Camden County has spent only 6 percent of the $125,000 budgeted this year for the fight against a possible Navy’s outlying landing field, Camden County Manager Michael Renshaw told commissioners Monday.

Fire victim identified; cause still unknown

By Staff reports | January 30, 2012 - 9:36pm

Law enforcement authorities have identified the 71-year-old Camden County man killed in house fire Sunday afternoon.

Camden fire claims life

By Peter Williams | January 29, 2012 - 9:56pm

Fire claimed the life of a disabled man in the Taylor’s Beach community of Camden County Sunday afternoon.

Heater blamed for Camden fire

January 29, 2012 - 6:07pm

A fire that heavily damaged a business in Camden on Saturday was the result of a malfunctioning space heater according to fire officials.

Camden looks forward to working with Academi

By Peter Williams | January 28, 2012 - 8:18pm

CAMDEN — Not only does Academi plan on keeping the huge training site in North Carolina, it hopes to double the amount of business it does here in the next year, the CEO of Academi told Camden officials last week.

Academi opens up to Camden

By Peter Williams | January 28, 2012 - 8:16pm

CAMDEN — The security company that owns 7,000 acres straddling Camden and Currituck counties and employs more than 400 people did more than change their name when it changed ownership, the CEO of Academi told Camden officials last week.

DOT charts US 158 widening

By Cindy Beamon | January 23, 2012 - 9:47pm

BARCO — Planners will be looking for the “path of least resistance” for the future widening of U.S. Highway 158 from Belcross to Barco, said one state Department of Transportation spokesman.

Lawyer: Deputies deny wrongdoing in inmate suit

By William F. West | January 19, 2012 - 9:38pm

CAMDEN — A state prison inmate has sued two Camden County sheriff’s deputies and the county’s former chief deputy, claiming they subjected him to excessive force and racist remarks when they arrested him following a vehicle chase in the summer of 2008.

DOT to discuss plans for Belcross-Barco widening

By Cindy Beamon | January 17, 2012 - 11:21pm

CAMDEN —A wider U.S. Highway 158 between Currituck and Camden counties may be nearly a decade away, but preliminary work on improving the roadway has already begun.

Marchers mark King’s impact on ordinary lives

By Cindy Beamon | January 16, 2012 - 9:52pm

CAMDEN — Go backward in time and erase Martin Luther King Jr., and the world would be an “alternate universe,” says Malik K. Lightly.

Friends support family burned out of home

By William F. West | January 16, 2012 - 9:49pm

CAMDEN — Friends, neighbors and local athletes descended on what was left of Al and Sue Seidel’s iconic home in Whitehall Shores on Monday.

Fire destroys Camden house: Fires also fought at Sonic, Culpepper Inn

By William F. West | January 15, 2012 - 6:59pm

CAMDEN — A weekend fire destroyed a home that was once a golf clubhouse in the Whitehall Shores part of Camden County and also took the lives of two pets.

Camden sets sights on luring grocery store

By Cindy Beamon | January 14, 2012 - 6:10pm

CAMDEN — Local officials here plan to begin gathering data in hopes of recruiting a supermarket to the county.

Locks’ gates removed for repairs

By Cindy Beamon | January 11, 2012 - 9:35pm

SOUTH MILLS — A 23-ton gate dangled above the South Mills locks Wednesday morning as a crane hoisted it to land for repairs. The gate was one of two being lifted out of the water that day for work routinely done every 10 to 15 years.

Camden agencies begin move to business park site

By Cindy Beamon | January 10, 2012 - 12:40pm

BELCROSS — Moving day for some government offices in Camden begins this week.

Camden plan to show both targeted, free-range growth

By Cindy Beamon | January 9, 2012 - 9:49pm

CAMDEN — Consultants say they are ready to predict what may happen in Camden’s future, depending on which of two directions county leaders choose.

Camden to buy iPads

By Cindy Beamon | January 7, 2012 - 7:05pm

Camden commissioners are going paperless.

Camden addressing nameless complaints

By Cindy Beamon | January 7, 2012 - 7:05pm

A new policy being considered by Camden Commissioners may mean that anonymous complaints for code violations may not be immediately investigated.

Accident victim’s condition upgraded

By Staff reports | January 7, 2012 - 6:18pm

A 17-year-old Camden County High School student who was struck by a car Friday afternoon was upgraded to good condition Sunday at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, a spokesperson said.