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MOYOCK — The president of the company that services the troubled sewer system in the Eagle Creek subdivision is attempting to buy the utility.
Breanne Scribner and Lindsey Lynam grew up across the street from each other from the time they were toddlers until they were 12 years old.
Citing a heightened fire risk because of dry conditions, the N.C. Forest Service banned all open burning and canceled all burning permits across the state Monday afternoon.
Residents who rely on Food Bank of the Albemarle to help feed their families will soon have access to the agency’s planned demonstration kitchen.
The Albemarle Area United Way is seeking to raise matching funds for a $10,000 challenge grant earmarked for its temporary emergency crisis fund.
A story and photo caption about Black Friday shopping in the weekend edition misidentified shopper Arthur Mitchell Jr. as Pedro Holley.
Local Events
A Northeastern High School football player was recognized by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association.
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BOWIE, Md. — Fayetteville State defeated the Elizabeth City State University women’s volleyball team 25-19, 25-16, 25-19 in the semifinal round of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association women’s volleyball tournament Saturday evening inside A.C. Jordan Arena on the campus of Bowie S…
The North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association released its All-State volleyball teams.
The Northeastern High School football team exploded for 30 second quarter points, building a double digit lead, and then held off a closing charge by Washington to win by the final score of 57-47. The victory Friday night in Elizabeth City, came in the third round of the NCHSAA State Playoff…
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Opinion
“Best budget ever!” has been said about so many previous state budgets that it might seem like hyperbole to say it now about the one Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper recently signed into law after he and the Republican-led Legislature finally agreed on its contents.
On Monday, Nov. 15, Dr. Barnett Berry, research professor and senior director for policy and innovation at the University of South Carolina, shared with the Board of Education for the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools a national initiative for Community Schooling.
What a convoluted mess this has become. Thanks, President Joe Biden.
The fear by some that “Critical Race Theory” (I use quotes because CRT has become more of an imagined bogeyman than an actual thing) is being taught in public schools, and the intertwined issue of the supposed rights of parents to dictate what is and is not taught to their children, provokes…
“This is not who we are.”
You’d think at some point the folks who lead the North Carolina Republican Party might experience just the tiniest twinge of sheepishness.
Features
“Amazing Grace” is certainly a hymn we have all heard many times, and probably sung as well. But exactly what is “amazing” about grace?
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.” — Ephesians 1:3-4
The Albemarle Chorale will perform in public for the first time in two years when it holds the first of two Christmas concerts early next month.
Currently on display at Museum of the Albemarle until August of next year is “Picturing Women Inventors,” a poster exhibition designed to educate and inspire young people to see themselves as future inventors. This exhibition showcases breakthroughs, motivations and challenges women encounte…
Port Discover, the family science center in downtown Elizabeth City, hopes to bring back a host of programs for kids, teens and adults. And to do it, it’s brought back a former staffer in a new role.
As an assistant coach of Elizabeth City State University’s men’s basketball team who played point guard in high school, Kenny White is used to setting up winning plays.
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State AP Stories
PILOT MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — Fire crews in North Carolina are working to control a fire in Pilot Mountain State Park that has already burned hundreds of acres.
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — University of Maine researchers are trying to produce potatoes that can better withstand warming temperatures as the climate changes.
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The Dayton Board of Zoning Appeals has approved the city’s request to demolish a 129-year-old historic building that once was the site of the Wright brothers’ first bike shop.
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Three people were shot and wounded Friday during an apparent fight between two groups at a North Carolina mall crowded with shoppers on the day after Thanksgiving, the police chief said.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — New state data shows more than 1.3 million of the roughly 8.2 million North Carolina adults who qualify for a COVID-19 booster shot — or one in six eligible residents — have gotten the extra protection against a virus that has killed about 775,000 Americans.
The city manager in Newport, Rhode Island, is standing by the city police department's review of the 1966 death of an employee of wealthy heiress Doris Duke that found that there is no new information that would change the result of the original investigation that determined it was an accident.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, helped a local food kitchen prepare Thanksgiving meals for the needy before leaving town — like millions of other Americans — to resume their family tradition of spending the holiday on tiny Nantucket island in Massachusetts.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state Sen. Ben Clark announced Monday his run for U.S. House in the state's 4th Congressional District. He is looking to secure the Democratic nomination in a GOP-leaning district outside Raleigh that is expected to be one of the most competitive races in …
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National & World AP Stories
CHICAGO (AP) — Jussie Smollett staged a racist and homophobic assault and told police he was the victim after the television studio where he worked didn't take hate mail he had received seriously, a prosecutor said during opening statements in the ex-"Empire" actor's trial Monday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are spending freely and going back to store shopping, knocking out some of the momentum in online sales from last year when Americans were making many of their purchases exclusively via the internet.
Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has emerged from behind the scenes to take over one of Silicon Valley's highest-profile and politically volatile jobs.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction, complaining in a petition released Monday the verdict was thrown out over a questionable agreement that the comic claimed gave him lifetime immunity.
As the sex trafficking trial of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, began on Monday, social media users were spreading false claims that the judge barred the press from the courtroom and prohibited livestreams to keep details from the public.
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday broadened its recommendation for COVID-19 booster shots for all adults as the new omicron variant is identified in more countries.
NEW YORK (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board has ordered a new union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama based on objections to the first vote that took place in April.
NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were “partners in crime” in the sexual abuse of teenage girls, a prosecutor said Monday, while Maxwell’s lawyers said she was being made a scapegoat for a man’s bad behavior as the British socialite’s sex trafficking trial got underway in…
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