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Friday, January 15, 2021
Food Bank of the Albemarle closed its Elizabeth City facilities Thursday for a through cleaning after a staff member reported testing positive for COVID-19.
Thursday, January 14, 2021
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Flora Robinson, one of Elizabeth City’s oldest citizens and a longtime contributor to the city’s religious and cultural life, died Wednesday at age 106.
One of the best friends Pasquotank County taxpayers ever had has died.
An endangered Chowan County teen reported missing last week has been found safe and sound.
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.
WILMINGTON — Due to the continuing public health concerns associated with COVID-19 (Coronavirus), the North Carolina Coaches Association (NCCA) and the South Carolina Athletic Coaches Association (SCACA) have canceled the 2021 Carolinas Classic All-Star Basketball Games.
BARCO — The Currituck County High School volleyball team defeated Whiteville High School 25-13, 25-13, 25-19 in the first round of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 2A state playoffs Tuesday at Currituck County High School.
Two former Elizabeth City State student-athletes were elected to the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association John B. McLendon Hall of Fame.
Opinion
Friday, January 15, 2021
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.
COVID-19 is raging. More and more school districts are making decisions not to return students to in-class instruction until early spring; some will not return for the remainder of the school year, even though the numbers of students contracting the virus aren’t alarming. We understand the schools’ health concerns, often coupled with staffing shortages, but there are other important factors.
The push to develop vaccines for COVID-19 was called Operation Warp Speed, but the delivery of two vaccines approved so far might be called Operation Hurry Up and Wait. The delay is especially pronounced in North Carolina, which late last week ranked 42nd in the nation in the percentage of its available vaccines that has been administered: 21.5 percent.
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Who amongst us didn’t laugh when they heard that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year?” Incredible that Time magazine couldn’t see fit to name our first responders.
It’s unfortunate that some of North Carolina’s Republican legislators were playing along with President Trump’s runaway claims of a stolen election by voting against accepting the Electoral College results on Jan. 6. It was a cynical ploy with no chance of success, but it sure did encourage the president’s base. And it fanned the flames for the deadly insurrection that occurred that day.
Remember when Barack Obama took over the presidency from George Bush and a difficult issue would pop up he would always blame his predecessor for it? It went on for most of Obama’s first term, leading some to ask the inevitable question about Bush after he was gone: “Do you miss me yet?” It …
Features
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.
Our son Michael in Tennessee is starting a new career as a correctional officer with the state of Georgia. The prison where he will be working is about 45 minutes away from where he lives and he told me this past weekend his family plans to move about halfway between the workplace and their …
Thursday, January 14, 2021
New year — new you. Many are striving to become healthier and happier as 2021 begins. It’s often hard when listening to the news, but a positive outlook goes hand in hand with a healthy lifestyle.
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Editor’s note: The following is a condensed version of a sermon delivered prior to Christmas by the Rev. C. Renee Edwards, pastor of Mt. Hermon and Woodland United Methodist churches.
“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast and they were unwilling to come.” — Matthew 22:2-3
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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York on Friday upheld convictions against a sports marketer, an aspiring agent and a financial adviser in a college basketball scandal that spoiled the careers of several coaches.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's Wake County Detention Center is seeing its worst spread of the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump’s supporters massed outside the Capitol last week and sang the national anthem, a line of men wearing olive-drab helmets and body armor trudged purposefully up the marble stairs in a single-file line, each man holding the jacket collar of the one ahead.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Police in the North Carolina city of Winston-Salem are still investigating a months-old incident in which a white police officer is seen tackling a Black teenage girl.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Animal rights advocates said breeders in North Carolina have shipped more than 1,000 live roosters to Guam, charging as much as $2,000 for each bird in the island’s cockfighting trade.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
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National & World AP Stories
MONROE, Wis. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy has admitted fatally shooting his newborn daughter and leaving her body inside a fallen tree in the woods in southern Wisconsin, according to prosecutors.
BEIJING (AP) — President Xi Jinping is asking former CEO Howard Schultz of Starbucks to help repair U.S.-Chinese relations that have plunged to their lowest level in decades amid a tariff war and tension over technology and security.
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Jets were searching for a leader, someone who could bring a frustrated, playoff-starved franchise back to respectability.
PHOENIX (AP) — The pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week aimed to “capture and assassinate elected officials,” federal prosecutors said in court documents.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling Friday after reports showed the pandemic is deepening the hole for the economy, as Washington prepares to throw it another lifeline.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine said Friday the military had entered and “taken control” of his home and “we are in serious trouble," while the country waited for election results amid a government-ordered internet blackout and official results show…
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. government executed a drug trafficker Thursday for slaying seven people in a burst of violence in Virginia’s capital in 1992, with some witnesses in the death-chamber building applauding as the 52-year-old was pronounced dead.
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York on Friday upheld convictions against a sports marketer, an aspiring agent and a financial adviser in a college basketball scandal that spoiled the careers of several coaches.
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