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The countdown has already started for next month's N.C. Potato Festival.
The city of Elizabeth City has been awarded another $300,000 in state grant funding to help fund its ambitious Water Street Transformation Project.
The following story is being republished with permission from CoastalReview.org.
Contrary to popular belief, the Quakers were among the most prominent slave owners and traders in Colonial America beginning in the 17th century, including in northeastern North Carolina.
Pasquotank County has been granted $200,000 to help prepare an existing building to house a new company that promises to add 23 new local jobs.
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- District unveils new school zones for Pasquotank Elementary students
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Mrs. Wood thinks that I should get a different hobby. I have about 30 large Carolina pine trees on my property, so my constant avocation is the picking and disposing of pine cones.
CAMDEN — The Camden County girls Bruins soccer team shut out the Pasquotank County Panthers at home on Monday afternoon by a score of 3-0.
Northeastern High School’s Jada Simpson tallied a hat trick in the Eagles’ 4-0 home soccer win over the Albemarle School Colts 4-0 Friday night.
Last week, Shohei Ohtani hit his first home run for his new team, the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 430-foot blast into the right-centerfield bleachers bounced off hands and then ended up at the feet of lifelong Dodger fan Ambar Roman who just picked it up. The young woman was attending the game …
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“Women put Joe in the White House four years ago,” Jill Biden argued recently, “and women will do it again.” Her first statement is undeniably true. The second remains to be seen. But if Jill’s husband, Joe, does win a second term, women will be the reason.
A new poll by Axios and Noticias Telemundo finds that 42% of Latino Americans support building a wall or fence along the entire U.S.-Mexico border. When pollsters asked the same question in December 2021, the number was 30%. That’s a significant increase as the border crisis created by President Joe Biden’s policies worsens.
Price controls always cause shortages. Remember the Arab oil embargo from October 1973 to March 1974?
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The people who breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are being held accountable, and attempts to rebrand them as patriotic choirboys are a sign of the bizarre political times. Yet is it unduly stretching the law to prosecute Jan. 6 rioters using the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002?
Recently in a department store aisle, I overheard a child between the ages 10 and 11 explain, “Yeah, that’s what she gave me, but ‘cause I can’t use one that big, I’m still looking.”
In a miserably polarized America, where politics intrudes on decisions from which beer to drink to which musical artists to listen to, libraries had, for a time, remained safe community spaces. They were quiet oases away from the frenzy, calm gathering places for young and old alike.
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During their prominence in the United States between the 19th century and the late 1950s and early 1960s, boarding houses were a typical temporary residence in most cities.
When Renee Wente saw the huge pine tree growing in the roundabout, she knew it would provide the perfect name for her new business, Loblolly Estate Wedding Venue.
I have a tendency to make very last minute plans as I travel. My trip to Taiwan has been no different. I was talking to my new friends, Dave and Penny, about how I wanted to visit a little village in Northern Taiwan that resembles the village in “Spirited Away,” a popular Hayao Miyazaki anim…
Why did Jesus come to earth? At Christmas, we often say that Jesus was born to die. When Easter comes, we say that Jesus became our substitutionary atonement, or what sometimes in theological study is called vicarious atonement.
EDENTON — Matt Lively is already known in Edenton for his mural on the side of the Chowan Arts Council building on Water Street. That work emphasizes historic structures and features whimsical unicycle-riding bumble bees.
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Students enrolled in College of The Albemarle’s computer integrated machining program are now eligible for a new scholarship named in honor of a COA grad and longtime employee of the Sumitomo Machinery Corporation of America.
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Former President Donald Trump is campaigning in North Carolina as he juggles legal troubles and his rematch against President Joe Biden. Trump’s evening stop in the coastal city of Wilmington on Saturday marks his first rally since his criminal hush money trial began this week with jury selection in Manhattan. The occasion offers the former president a fresh chance to amplify claims that his multiple pending indictments are an establishment conspiracy to take him down –- and, by extension, squelch the voters who first elected him eight years ago.
A video of people pulling bear cubs from a tree in North Carolina has prompted an investigation, but a state official says no charges will be filed. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission says staff responded to a report of people harassing bear cubs at an Asheville apartment complex on Tuesday. Staffers learned that the two cubs escaped after one bit a person. Officials say one cub was found later in a retention pond but the second wasn't found. In the video, people are not only seen pulling cubs from a tree, but one person poses for a photo while holding one of the wild animals, then drops the cub, who runs for a nearby fence.
Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The cases are detailed in federal documents obtained by The Associated Press and raise serious questions about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S. Federal law requires emergency rooms to stabilize patients who are in active labor and provide a medical transfer to another hospital if they don’t have the staff or resources to treat them. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next week in an Idaho case that could weaken those federal protections.
The Sheetz convenience store chain has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Sheetz Inc. discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed a criminal background check. President Joe Biden stopped by a Sheetz for snacks this week while campaigning in Pennsylvania. Sheetz is based in the state and also has stores in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and North Carolina. The privately run family-owned company says it “does not tolerate discrimination of any kind.”
Diversity, equity and inclusion staff members' jobs in North Carolina's public university system could be at risk. The University of North Carolina Board of Governors committee quickly voted to repeal a DEI policy adopted in 2019. The policy will now be sent to the full board to vote on at its next meeting in May. The existing policy outlines the roles of DEI officers across the university system, and the proposed replacement policy does not mention those staff positions. Any repeal of DEI policy would follow the lead of other institutions that have removed their DEI offices, such as the University of Florida.
A North Carolina appeals court says Gov. Roy Cooper's executive orders to keep bars closed during the COVID-19 pandemic while allowing restaurants that also serve alcohol to reopen were “illogical.” A state Court of Appeals panel ruled unanimously Tuesday that a trial judge erred when he rejected claims by the North Carolina Bar and Tavern Association and private bars that their constitutional rights to earn a living and for equal treatment under the law had been violated. Cooper's office defended state actions during the pandemic. The state Supreme Court could now hear the case. It also could return to trial on the issue of monetary damages.
The mayor of North Carolina’s capital city has announced that she won't seek reelection this fall. Mary-Ann Baldwin has been mayor of Raleigh since 2019. She unveiled her decision on a video released Tuesday. Baldwin cited in part health challenges. She described a breast cancer diagnosis last year and her husband’s open-heart surgery. She said she is cancer-free and her husband is doing well, but that “it’s time to devote my energies to myself and my family, and to find other ways to serve.” Raleigh is approaching 500,000 residents and is second only to Charlotte in municipal population. Several mayoral candidates had already emerged before Tuesday.
The Biden administration is enlisting officials in 15 states to help enforce consumer-protection laws covering air travel. The U.S. Department of Transportation said Tuesday that it will give the states power to investigate complaints about airlines and ticket sellers, and then refer cases to the federal government for enforcement. Under U.S. law, only the federal government can regulate consumer-protection laws covering airlines. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says the agreement is legal. He's touting it as a way to increase protection for airline customers. Buttigieg pointed to travelers whose flights are canceled and then must wait days for another flight or pay more to fly home on another airline.
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DENVER (AP) — A girl who wrote to God in her diaries, a boy with learning disabilities who was just learning to like who he was and a teen who would spend every free minute fishing were among the 13 victims of the Columbine High School shooting remembered during a vigil Friday on the eve of …
A man who doused himself in an accelerant and set himself on fire outside the courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial has died. The New York City Police Department said early Saturday that the man was declared dead by staff at an area hospital. Officials and witnesses say the man was in Collect Pond Park around 1:30 p.m. Friday when he took out pamphlets espousing conspiracy theories, tossed them around, then doused himself in an accelerant and set himself on fire. A large number of police officers were nearby when it happened. Some officers and bystanders rushed to the aid of the man, who was hospitalized in critical condition.
Officials in Thailand say about 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand as fresh fighting erupted at a border town that has recently been captured by ethnic guerillas. Fighters from the Karen ethnic minority last week captured the last of the Myanmar army’s outposts in and around Myawaddy, which is connected to Thailand by two bridges. Police say the latest clashes were triggered when the Karen guerillas launched an attack against Myanmar troops who were hiding near the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge, a major crossing point for trade with Thailand. The fall of Myawaddy is a major setback for the military that seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021.
Russia is exploiting air defense shortages in Ukraine's Kharkiv region by targeting civilian infrastructure and communities to drive away residents. Some believe Moscow is preparing for a summer offensive in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city. Officials say nearly 200,000 people in the city have no power, while 50% of the region’s population still suffers from outages. Officials are scrambling to fix the grid before winter starts in six months, and are trying to fortify the city against a possible offensive. Kharkiv’s struggles reflect a wider problem: As Western allies drag their feet in delivering promised aid to Kyiv, Moscow is patiently escalating until — it hopes — Ukrainian resistance snaps.
Investments in public preschool have helped many parents through a child care crisis, in which quality options for early learners are often scarce and unaffordable. But some parents say the programs don't work for them. Some public preschools lack an all-day option. No state has a more ambitious plan for universal preschool than California, which plans to extend eligibility for so-called “transitional kindergarten” to all 4-year-olds by fall 2025. But even in California, not all schools hosting transitional kindergarten offer child care before or after instruction.
Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining the United Auto Workers union, boosting the UAW's nationwide effort to organize nonunion factories. The union wound up getting 73% of the ballots cast in an election run by the National Labor Relations Board that ended Friday. Twice in recent years, workers at the Chattanooga plant have rejected union membership. But this time, they voted convincingly for the UAW, which is operating under new leadership directly elected by members for the first time and basking in a successful confrontation with Detroit’s major automakers.
Former President Donald Trump is campaigning in North Carolina as he juggles legal troubles and his rematch against President Joe Biden. Trump’s evening stop in the coastal city of Wilmington on Saturday marks his first rally since his criminal hush money trial began this week with jury selection in Manhattan. The occasion offers the former president a fresh chance to amplify claims that his multiple pending indictments are an establishment conspiracy to take him down –- and, by extension, squelch the voters who first elected him eight years ago.
Record Store Day celebrates independent retail music sellers who have endured long after megastores like Tower Records closed. The holiday invented at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees in 2007 will be observed Saturday. Each establishment celebrates in its own way. Most stores offer special releases of increasingly popular vinyl records with features such as extra content and beautiful covers. Others have marked the third Saturday in April with performances by local bands, food trucks, DJs and product giveaways. This year's Record Store Day comes as the popularity of vinyl LPs continues to surge.
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