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Friday, February 21, 2020
More than two years after suspending the practice in the wake of a deadly attempted prison break, Elizabeth City officials plan to revisit having minimum custody prison inmates from Pasquotank Correctional Institute perform work for the city.
A lot of washers and dryers are coming to the Currituck industrial park in Maple.
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Citing Thursday's snowstorm and the possibility of snow-covered roadways Friday morning, all area public school districts, the Northeast Academy for Aerospace and Advanced Technologies, and all campuses of College of The Albemarle will be closed Friday.
The expected arrival Thursday of the region’s first winter snowstorm forced the early closing of schools, cancellation of afternoon and evening community events, and sent scores of residents to grocery and hardware stores in search of staples like bread and water.
The inmate believed to have committed suicide at Pasquotank Correctional Institution earlier this week apparently hanged himself.
Witnesses say a good Samaritan used her bare hand Wednesday to punch out the driver’s side window of a vehicle to help save a man who apparently had overdosed.
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CLEVELAND — Brandon Lynch, who has served as East Carolina’s cornerbacks coach for the past two seasons, has been appointed to a similar position with the Cleveland Browns according to an official announcement by the National Football League organization Wednesday.
CHAPEL HILL — Due to the wintry weather forecast to affect the state over the next several days, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association has postponed the seeding date for the 2020 Men’s and Women’s Basketball Playoffs from Saturday to Sunday.
HERTFORD — The Perquimans County High School boys’ basketball team played as close to a complete game against Gates County Tuesday night.
Behind strong play from some of its youngest players, the Northeastern girls’ basketball team cruised to a 62-39 Northeastern Coastal Conference quarterfinal win over crosstown rival Pasquotank in the Lady Panthers’ gym Tuesday.
CAMDEN — The Camden County High School basketball players all have the same message imprinted on the backs of their warmup jerseys.
The Elizabeth City State men’s and women’s basketball teams will play their final home regular-season games today inside the Robert L. Vaughan Center.
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Friday, February 21, 2020
Attorney General William Barr is looking into the murky origins of the politically charged Justice Department investigations that have roiled American public life for the last three years.
I read the editorial on Sunday and would like to share a different perspective. I have attended all the joint meetings of the Camden Board of Education and Camden Board of Commissioners, as well as several board of education meetings and commissioner meetings. I have spent hours looking thro…
Thursday, February 20, 2020
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The "Nazi Party" is the byname for the National Socialist German Workers Party.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Back in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump promised that Mexico would pay for his proposed border wall. Turns out Mexico wasn’t interested, so Trump eventually resorted to declaring fake emergencies and illegally misappropriating money from the military budget.
A recent Pew Research Center survey finds that only half of American adults think colleges and universities are having a positive effect on our nation. The leftward political bias, held by faculty members affiliated with the Democratic Party, at most institutions of higher education explains a lot of that disappointment. Professors Mitchell Langbert and Sean Stevens document this bias in “Partisan Registration and Contributions of Faculty in Flagship Colleges.”
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Camden Intermediate School
One hundred fifty-three College of The Albemarle students were named to the President’s List for the fall 2019 semester. To qualify for the list, a student must complete 12 or more curriculum semester hours, in courses numbered at or above the 100 level, and earn a 4.0 grade-point average.
College of The Albemarle’s associate degree nursing program has been named third among the 30 ranked nursing programs in North Carolina, according to RegisteredNursing.org, a Carlsbad, California-based website that provides educational and employment resources for nursing professionals.
Sunday, February 16, 2020
For years the Friends of the Museum Board of Directors talked about doing an audio-video production about a subject that is part of Albemarle history. The opportunity to advance the concept came about as plans for the Museum of the Albemarle’s 50th anniversary year developed.
The Pasquotank Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution earlier this month honoring Martin Ferrell Nevins who will turn 100 on Feb. 22.
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