WILSON — Students were eager to show off the progress they had made on their Mother’s Day cards.

Each one was hand-fashioned from scratch in Beth Wiggs' art class.

Wiggs is the new art teacher at the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf in Wilson.

“Each individual is…

A public hearing on the naming of a service road serving the Southwest Bypass is on the agenda of today’s 6 p.m. Board of Commissioners meeting.

The commissioners will hear if the public prefers the name “Pittman Farm Road” or “Trump Lane” for the newly constructed…

AYDEN — The Ayden Board of Commissioners has amended the town’s vacant building code.

At a meeting last week, the board voted to exempt new property owners from the vacant building registration for 12 months, to decrease the registration fee for the next six months and to exempt an…

East Carolina announced program-record grade point averages in football and men’s basketball for the spring semester, one week after those teams were close to the cut line for NCAA administered penalties because of their multi-year academic progress rate scores released by the NCAA from 2017…

Ironwood

Ironwood's team captured the Eastern League trophy in the season's final match last week at Ironwood. The finals consisted of both a team and an individual match over two days of play.

The team was made up of Leslie Bailey, Dianne Delaney, Debbie Pruitt, Belle Prusinowski and Georgia White.…

East Carolina lost its final regular season baseball game of this season, yet some fans stuck around at sunny and steamy Clark-LeClair Stadium after Memphis’ 10-9 victory on Saturday afternoon to see the Pirates collect their trophies and to show appreciation for what ECU accomplished…

It is refreshing to read that Pitt County towns are starting to consider building connected greenways. These are long overdue and will be wonderful additions to our area.

BYH, the cost of having public libraries is much less than the price we pay for having an ignorant nation.

BYH to us for living…

Behold: the father of lies is come. (John 8:44)

The Washington Post just announced that Trump has passed the 10,000 mark of provable lies. I have never seen as dishonest a bunch as every member of this administration.

Just look at Attorney General William Barr. He auditioned for his job by writing…

How many people have the ability to manipulate the stock market? One, and this isn’t a trick question. We’re watching how President Trump’s statements about slapping tariffs on China one day, or the great headway he’s making on a China trade deal the next day can tank the…

Elizabeth City native De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s debut novel, “In West Mills” might be the blackest novel set in North Carolina this year, maybe ever.

This book is all about African Americans living and struggling in eastern North Carolina from about 1940 to 1987.…

I love foreign languages and travel, I love alpine skiing and I love interesting local color. So when I had a chance to take a four-week paid sabbatical from work some years ago, I spent more than a year researching the perfect destination that could scratch all those itches simultaneously. Ruthie…

Mom was our navigator, and her GPS was a 1966 book of maps that needed no correction for millionths of seconds.

In those days, the Global Positioning System was a military secret, so when she planned a 14,000-mile summer trip, she was on her own with pencils and a few brochures. In January she…

Elizabeth City native De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s debut novel, “In West Mills” might be the blackest novel set in North Carolina this year, maybe ever.

This book is all about African Americans living and struggling in eastern North Carolina from about 1940 to 1987.…

I love foreign languages and travel, I love alpine skiing and I love interesting local color. So when I had a chance to take a four-week paid sabbatical from work some years ago, I spent more than a year researching the perfect destination that could scratch all those itches simultaneously. Ruthie…

Mom was our navigator, and her GPS was a 1966 book of maps that needed no correction for millionths of seconds.

In those days, the Global Positioning System was a military secret, so when she planned a 14,000-mile summer trip, she was on her own with pencils and a few brochures. In January she…