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Sunday, September 20, 2020
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Construction is set to begin on a training facility that aims to provide area landscaping and plumbing companies a steady pool of qualified job applicants.
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First United Methodist Church has offered the use of its kitchen to Mid-Atlantic Christian University as MACU recovers from a roof collapse on campus earlier this month.
Saturday, September 19, 2020
CURRITUCK — A longtime school volunteer is mounting a write-in campaign for the Currituck Board of Education seat currently held by incumbent Dwan Craft.
The number of voters seeking to vote by mail continued to grow last week, as every county election board in the region saw double-digit increases in ballot requests.
Leadership, experience and moving Pasquotank forward are just some of the reasons Democrat Lloyd Griffin lists as reasons why voters should return him to the county Board of Commissioners.
Friday, September 18, 2020
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The Mid-Atlantic Christian men’s basketball team is ready to play.
With the nights getting cooler and the winds switching out of the northeast, it didn’t take long for the drum to move into the surf.
PANTEGO — The Albemarle School volleyball team defeated Terra Ceia Christian 25-9, 15-25, 25- 11, 25-18 on Thursday at Terra Ceia.
It was Christmas morning and I was eleven years old.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association released the final standings for the Wells Fargo Conference Cup for the 2019-20 athletic year Wednesday.
The Albemarle School volleyball team opened its 2020 season Tuesday against visiting conference foe Pungo Christian Academy.
Opinion
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Daily the media says Donald Trump has divided this country worse than anyone in history and conveniently “forgets” President Obama’s attitude about religion and gun clingers and Hillary Clinton’s infamous remarks about half of Trump’s supporters being “deplorable” and half having no worth.
Last fall, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a member of the National Security Council staff, was a star witness against President Trump at House impeachment hearings. Since then, he has left public view, left the White House and left the Army. Now, with an election approaching, he is launching what appears to be a media campaign to take shots at the president.
Editor’s Note: The following is an editorial published by The Greensboro News & Record on Tuesday.
The figure to keep in mind about this year’s race for the White House is that no president has won a second term in modern history when the unemployment rate was above 7.2%.
Editor’s note: Ruth Bader Ginburg died Friday after this column was distributed.
From the moment we wake up to when we are relaxing after a long day, we are exposed to news regarding health care mergers and acquisitions, legislation pertaining to the Affordable Care Act and, most recently, the status of the COVID-19 pandemic. As we navigate these new circumstances, it is imperative that we do not overlook critical, existing developments in public health. Buried under 2020’s whirlwind of headlines is the sobering reality that obesity is still on the rise in the United States.
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Sunday, September 20, 2020
When filmmaker Caroline Stephenson was making a documentary of the history of Rosenwald Schools in Hertford one of her goals was to get one of the schools placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In her first novel, “Love’s True Colors,” author Tiffany Price based the book’s fictional romance on her and husband Matt’s own love story.
College of The Albemarle students from Chowan County enrolled in the college’s law enforcement training programs can now take advantage of a new endowed scholarship named for the county’s recently retired sheriff.
Changes during the 20th century were as profound as the invention of the automobile and electricity.
Elizabeth City State University has received high marks as a top public school in the 2020 reports of two national publications.
GREENVILLE — A Baptist church’s effort to “love thy neighbor” is giving dozens of middle schoolers a chance to return to the classroom.
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