News Stories
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Elizabeth City police have arrested a local man on drug and weapon charges.
HERTFORD — Dwayne Stallings is being remembered as a charismatic education leader who cared about students and school staff as well as his community.
There was no live music, children’s games or shoulder-to-shoulder crowds this year — COVID-19 restrictions made sure of that.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
WINDSOR — Clad in neon-orange and blaze-yellow T-shirts, volunteers were spread across the tornado-devastated landscape in Bertie County on Saturday like beacons of hope.
The Norfolk, Virginia-based health care system that operates Pasquotank County’s hospital is seeking a merger with a Greensboro-based health care system.
Pasquotank County’s new director of information technology is no stranger to the area.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association released the amended calendar for the 2020-21 year on Wednesday.
ATLANTA, Ga. — When friends of Kjahna O are asked to describe her in one word, the inevitable responses are: trailblazer, pioneer or record-setter.
NORFOLK, Va. — Old Dominion is canceling its fall sports season because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Great individuals and great basketball players.
Will Rogers had a saying, “Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.”
Dixieland Speedway announced on Wednesday it has suspended racing competition because of state restrictions related to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Opinion
Thursday, August 13, 2020
We are, in essence, one world, one universe, with one God under many different names.
This letter is in response to one of your letter-writers' comments regarding COVID-19 being a “God-sent plague” and praying to Jesus.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
I wish people would stop referring to Jesus in their comparing and contrasting of things.
Most people who call themselves Marxists know very little of Karl Marx’s life and have never read his three-volume “Das Kapital.” Volume I was published in 1867, the only volume published before Marx’s death in 1883. Volumes II and III were later edited and published in his name by his friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels. Most people who call themselves Marxist have only read his 1848 pamphlet “The Communist Manifesto,” which was written with Engels.
With massive statewide confusion over schools reopening, sky-high unemployment rates, and hospital beds increasingly filled with COVID-19 patients, one thing that seems all too clear is that we are living through a uniquely fraught time. And we are going through it with nearly every one of our fellow human beings. The novel coronavirus has wreaked havoc in every corner of the world and touched every family.
The COVID-19 pandemic shows how we dump society’s problems on public schools, but don’t give them enough money to meet those challenges.
Features
Sunday, August 09, 2020
Hats, gloves, coats. Old telephones and typewriters. Vintage furniture. Even a fake leg.
It is undeniable the many ways this current pandemic continues to change our world. The recent disruptions to our daily routines, once seemingly unalterable, have caused many of us to have to adapt to a new “normal.” The uncertainty of our long-term prospects and the necessity to curb and, u…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jennifer Durham, a science teacher at River Road Middle School in Elizabeth City, was one of nine middle school teachers from eight states selected to participate in the National STEM Scholar Program.
Friday, August 07, 2020
The following are upcoming activities at the Camden Center of Active Adults:
Editor’s note: The following is a recent sermon delivered by the Rev. Daniel Mark Cenci of Christ Episcopal Church. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission.
“These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
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