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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Teams from the North Carolina National Guard are in Elizabeth City and elsewhere across the Albemarle this week to assist Albemarle Regional Health Services in administering COVID-19 vaccinations.
Camden Sheriff
The attorney for former Elizabeth City Community Planning Director Carter Thompson informed the city last month that his client will file a wrongful termination lawsuit if a more favorable separation agreement than the one rejected by Thompson is not reached.
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Food Bank of the Albemarle plans to reopen Wednesday after being closed over the past week due to COVID-19.
Elizabeth City Police
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Hungry residents walking through the front door at Hoppin’ Johnz may need time to shake off the cold. When they sit down at their table in the heated outdoor dining area, they may have to shake off their coats.
Three nights per week, local bowlers enter the doors of Albemarle Lanes with one thing on their minds; rolling that elusive 300 game.
CROATAN — The Currituck County and First Flight cross country teams competed in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 2A East Regional Saturday at Croatan High School.
A determined "band of sisters," the Perquimans County High School volleyball team, has kept their focus through all the distractions that have occurred during the 2020-21 campaign, and achieved a remarkable season.
In the winter when you want to catch a largemouth you have a handful of lures you always go to.
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.
Opinion
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
His name may be a nod to the Founding Father and fourth president, but Rep. Madison Cawthorn is no James Madison.
As the new Biden-Harris administration assumes power, the most basic American freedom of speech and expression is under unprecedented threat.
As an old speechwriter, I’m a close reader of political speeches. Especially important speeches, like Gov. Roy Cooper’s inaugural address.
In an earlier letter to the editor, I posed the question: What will we have in a Biden–Harris administration?
Arnold Schwarznegger, the former GOP governor of California, likened the attack on the Capitol Jan. 6 to the murderous rampage by Nazis during Kristallnacht in 1938. He says, “I grew up in the ruins of a country that suffered the loss of its democracy. Growing up, I was surrounded by broken …
As a pastor in our community, I often ask people what they miss about not being able to gather for worship as we used to before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Saturday, January 16, 2021
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.
Friday, January 15, 2021
After a down year for weddings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mollie White is looking for nuptials to bounce back in 2021.
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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A city council in North Carolina has unanimously passed an ordinance that aims to protect workers from discrimination against hairstyles such as braids, dreadlocks or afros.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Government offices are being shuttered in North Carolina's capital as precautions against potential mayhem as Joe Biden takes his presidential oath in Washington.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Richard Burr said Tuesday that the Justice Department has told him it will not prosecute him over stock sales made during the coronavirus pandemic, ending an insider trading investigation that led him to at least temporarily step aside from a powerful committee chairma…
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man who was among the rioters who stormed U.S. Capitol during the siege by supporters of President Donald Trump has been arrested, the FBI said Tuesday.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 20, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) –– Ophthalmology practice Drs. Campbell, Cunningham, Taylor & Haun celebrates a special seven and a half year anniversary to commemorate the addition of Retina Specialist Matthew Cole, M.D., to the team of Knoxville eye doctors.
BEIJING (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry described outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday as a “doomsday clown” and said his designation of China as a perpetrator of genocide and crimes against humanity was merely “a piece of wastepaper.”
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top officials breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday that Joe Biden will be taking over as president of the United States, but they warned that the world has changed after four years of Donald Trump and that trans-Atlantic ties will be different in the future.
THULASENDRAPURAM, India (AP) — People in a tiny Indian village surrounded by rice paddies flocked to a Hindu temple, burst crackers and uttered prayers Wednesday hours before its descendant, Kamala Harris, takes her oath of office to become the U.S. vice president.
GUANGDONG, China, Jan. 20, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Hundreds of core SKA merchant brands in Nanyue Region of Alibaba International Station all unveiled. HOSEN TWO EIGHT Ceramics is honored to be one of them, let everyone know HOSEN, this ceramic brand.
LONDON (AP) — Dozens of U.K. music stars including Elton John, Ed Sheeran and conductor Simon Rattle say musicians have been “shamefully failed” by the British government, which has left them facing post-Brexit restrictions on touring in the European Union.
TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly higher ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration as U.S. president Wednesday, though worries about surging coronavirus cases sapped the Japanese market's early gains.
BEIJING (AP) — China’s highest-profile entrepreneur, Jack Ma, appeared Wednesday in an online video, ending a 2 1/2-month absence from public view that prompted speculation about the future of the e-commerce billionaire and his Alibaba Group.
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