News Stories
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Financial shortfalls have forced the N.C. Department of Transportation to delay construction on many parts of the proposed 213-mile Interstate 87 project from Raleigh to Virginia, a move that will push back the $1 billion project by several years.
Following guidance from state health officials, Albemarle Regional Health Services plans to expand COVID vaccinations to persons 65 and older starting Monday, the agency said Friday.
While the past year may have included more incidents of racial strife than any in decades, local civil rights leaders agree little has changed about their approach to celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy.
Teachers and other staff in area school districts have generally embraced the recently available COVID-19 vaccines, education officials said last week.
Thanks to the U.S. Coast Guard Base, Elizabeth City Regional Airport ranks among the top four general aviation airports in North Carolina for local jobs generated and economic impact.
Friday, January 15, 2021
City Council paved the way for a new gas station and convenience store at the corner of Halstead Boulevard and Body Road this week.
Mike Sweeney is the fishing columnist for The Daily Advance.
CAMDEN — The Camden County Bruins volleyball team fell to the Neuse Charter Cougars by a score of 3-2 Thursday night in the second round of the NCHSAA Class 1A state playoffs at Camden County High School.
HERTFORD — The Perquimans County High School volleyball team defeated East Carteret 25-10, 23-25, 25-15, 25-7 Thursday evening in the second round of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 1A state playoffs.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association released its second draft of the conference realignment for the 2021-25 athletic seasons Thursday.
Pasquotank County High School hosted a swimming meet with Currituck County and Northeastern Wednesday at Albemarle Family YMCA in Elizabeth City.
MURFREESBORO — For the first time under coach Brett Vincent, the Chowan men’s basketball team picked up a 95-65 win against Barton.
Opinion
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Democrats started trying to remove President Donald Trump from office before he entered office. Now they are proposing to remove him from office after he leaves office.
Inauguration Day will soon be upon us, and it can’t come soon enough for millions of Americans.
“There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,” said Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, in announcing she would vote to impeach President Trump.
Saturday, January 16, 2021
I overheard two bodybuilders trading stock tips around the dumbbell rack at our gym.
Friday, January 15, 2021
Twitter explained why it decided to permanently ban President Donald Trump: “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
How would we love to turn back our town clock and go straight to the year 1880? That was an era of elegance, fine wines, and beautiful ball gowns that looked so heavenly, they were to die for. Also, the horse-drawn carriages were so magical.
Features
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Some 60 elementary and middle school students fired cotton balls from homemade catapults Thursday evening in the first College of The Albemarle virtual STEM night of the year.
Museum of the Albemarle’s collection contains more than 35,000 dimensional artifacts. These range in size from a 29-foot shad boat to clay beads about a quarter-inch in diameter. In most cases they belonged to people who lived in the region from 12,000 B.C.E. to 2000 A.D. We have an extensiv…
Twenty Elizabeth City State University students will have an opportunity to apply for summer 2021 internships thanks to State Employees’ Credit Union’s decision to renew its $100,000 grant to the university.
The following is a condensed version of a sermon delivered last Sunday by the Rev. Carroll Bundy, pastor of New Hope United Methodist Church.
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fail for it had been founded on the rock.” — Matthe…
The Christian faith is based on God’s promises that good will prevail, justice will be served, and evil will be overcome. That is all well and good, but our problem is that we have not yet seen that happen.
State AP Stories
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Television celebrity Rachael Ray likes to show how one person can help change their community and even the world.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the "Powerball" game were:
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Six workers at a North Carolina police department have tested positive for COVID-19 days after a vaccination event, according to local officials.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
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National & World AP Stories
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s planning minister says the country’s drug regulatory authority has approved the use of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and the government is trying to make it available by the first quarter of the year.
Grand Slam champions are among the 47 players in hard lockdown after four positive tests for COVID-19 emerged from two of the charter flights bringing players, staff, officials and media to Australia for the first tennis major of the season.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery players have another chance to win big next week since there were no winners of the top prize for both the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots in their most recent drawings.
Today in History
Four coronavirus cases have been detected from charter flights carrying tennis players, coaches and officials to Melbourne for the Australian Open, forcing 47 players into strict hotel quarantine.
BEIJING — China on Sunday reported 109 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, two-thirds of them in a northern province that abuts Beijing, and no deaths.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s electoral commission said Saturday that President Yoweri Museveni won a sixth five-year term, extending his rule to four decades, while top opposition challenger Bobi Wine dismissed “cooked-up, fraudulent results” and officials struggled to explain how polling…
A double row of chain-link fencing circles the Arizona State Capitol. Windows on the Illinois and Ohio statehouses have been boarded up. National Guard troops in camouflage and flak jackets and heavily armed state troopers were stationed at state capitals across the U.S. in advance of protes…
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