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Thursday, February 25, 2021
Elizabeth City City Council, citing concerns about increased crime and traffic, voted this week to deny a rezoning request that would have paved the way for a 60-unit apartment complex on Walker Avenue.
City Council approved a rezoning request Monday night that will allow microbreweries to operate in additional city zoning districts.
While the number of North Carolina counties with the highest level of community spread of COVID-19 has fallen dramatically in recent weeks, most Albemarle area counties are still in the high tier.
Albemarle Regional Health Services Director Battle Betts said he appreciated the praise he received at Tuesday’s Board of Public Health meeting for the agency’s handling of COVID-19 vaccination clinics.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
RALEIGH — With cases and other key metrics trending downward in North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday announced the state will ease gathering and occupancy restrictions and end its 10 p.m. statewide curfew starting Friday.
CONCORD — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and state health officials announced a plan Wednesday to allow outdoor sports venues, including Charlotte Motor Speedway, to host events with fans up to 30 percent of their capacity, beginning Friday.
It was a banner 2019 season for the Currituck County High School varsity football team.
EDENTON — Good basketball teams play their best late in games, down the stretch.
ROCKY POINT — The Northeastern boys’ basketball team defeated Heide Trask 81-56 Tuesday in the first round of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 2A state playoffs at Trask.
During the past two seasons, the Northeastern High School varsity football team has been within reach of hoisting a state championship plaque.
The 2A Northeastern Coastal Conference released the 2020-21 all-conference volleyball teams Tuesday.
Opinion
Thursday, February 25, 2021
One of the crown jewels of North Carolina is our world-class system of higher education. Among these stellar institutions are our Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
One of the oddest aspects of the debate over school reopening in North Carolina is that everybody wants the same thing.
It is with deep sadness that I report that Linda Perry, founder of the Camden Charitable Foundation and the wife of retired Camden Sheriff Tony Perry, passed away this week at her home surrounded by her family. Linda had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for the past six years.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
The leaders of the North Carolina General Assembly treat legislation like a wish to the genie in the lamp.
If I want to raise a conservative friend’s blood pressure these days, I’ll ask him what he thinks about North Carolina’s senior U.S. senator, Richard Burr.
After reading a frequent local contributor’s list of reasons to be thankful for Donald Trump, I was amazed that he neglected to mention some of the most noteworthy.
Features
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Both Elizabeth City State University and College of The Albemarle have been named a Military Friendly School in recognition of their programs and services for veterans and their families.
GREENVILLE — Many people are changed forever when they have unexpected brushes with greatness.
Long ago I awoke one morning to a day that in the pastoral ministry all ministers dread. Two wonderful families, independent of one another but both resolute components of our small congregation, unexpectedly experienced tragedies you would never wish upon anyone.
I am fascinated by those people refusing to wear face masks to protect themselves and others from the spread of the coronavirus.
There are so many reasons why choosing Elizabeth City as the home of the inaugural Coast Guard run was easy.
EDENTON — Chowan County residents began reviewing proposed designs this week for Edenton-Chowan Schools’ planned new school to replace the current John A. Holmes High School.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — With cases and other key metrics trending downward in North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday announced the state will ease gathering and occupancy restrictions and end its 10 p.m. statewide curfew starting Friday.
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FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Felony charges have been dropped against a North Carolina man who was beaten and threatened at gunpoint after a younger man found him in a bedroom with the younger man’s two small children.
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ABOARD THE OPEN ARMS (AP) — The February storm is unforgiving, violently shaking the humanitarian rescuers’ vessel as they try to revive a faulty engine and save African migrants drifting in the Mediterranean Sea after fleeing Libya on unseaworthy boats.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Finland plans to reintroduce a state of emergency that would allow the Nordic country to close restaurants for a three-week period starting March 8 as it fights the variant first discovered in Britain.
JERUSALEM (AP) — When it comes to obtaining hard-to-get coronavirus vaccines, Israel’s friends are discovering the road appears to run through Jerusalem.
BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets followed Wall Street higher Thursday after the Federal Reserve chairman said the U.S. central bank is in no hurry to withdraw support for the economy.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Members of a group supporting Myanmar’s military junta attacked and injured people protesting Thursday against the army’s Feb. 1 seizure of power that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. At least several people were injured in the attacks in Myanmar's la…
NEW YORK (AP) — The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is formally expanding a $3 million financial relief fund that it quietly launched earlier this month, to help people struggling to make ends meet during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A secretive Israeli nuclear facility at the center of the nation's undeclared atomic weapons program is undergoing what appears to be its biggest construction project in decades, satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show.
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher Thursday after the Federal Reserve chairman said the U.S. central bank is in no hurry to withdraw support for the economy.
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