BAILEY — It’s hard to ignore the removal of hundreds of trees along the U.S. 264 corridor in Nash County, but N.C. Department of Transportation officials said it is all an effort to improve safety and visibility.

“The project is intended to accomplish several goals. Primarily,…

A Winterville man is facing charges after allegedly breaking into the home of an ex-girlfriend, according to the Greenville Police Department.

Police reports indicate that Melshaun Victor Hawkins, 25, allegedly broke into the 27-year-old woman’s home located in the 3000 block of…

Twenty months after Hurricane Matthew damaged about 250 Pitt County structures, money now is available to buy out 11 properties.

North Carolina Emergency Management plans to release $8.5 million in federal and state money to acquire, elevate or rebuild 64 homes damaged by Hurricane Matthew and its…

WINTERVILLE — It took until the final hour on June 17 for the Pitt County Post 39 American Legion baseball team to be handed its first loss of the season.

It happened late Sunday night when visiting Wallace Post 156 scored an 8-5 win against Pitt County in the final game of the Area 1 versus…

The United States team completed a dominant run at the FIBA Americas U18 basketball tournament in Ontario, Canada, on Saturday night with a 113-74 victory against the host Canadian squad to take the gold medal.

East Carolina first-year coach Joe Dooley helped pick the team, which was led…

The D.H. Conley football team is known for its spectacular athletes. Fast, physical and athletic are all adjectives often used to describe the Vikings players.

The Vikes finished with an 11-2 record in 2017, led by a perfect 6-0 mark in Eastern Carolina 3-A/4-A play. With star quarterback…

Spike Lee said “do the right thing,” but often kids don’t. They get in trouble. It happens when their self-actualization interests intersect with the rules in families and schools and laws in society.

The key is when a child makes a bad choice, there’s a responsible adult to…

Would you rather vote at 7:30 a.m. or 6:30 p.m. on a weekday — or vote on the Saturday morning before the election?

That was the practical impact of the choice facing the legislature last week — but you might not know it from the heated rhetoric on both sides. Democrats and left-…

The trade war with Canada over steel, aluminum and milk understandably grabs the headlines. But flying under the radar is the battle over Canadian newsprint, a skirmish that’s hurting businesses and costing jobs.

In January, the U.S. Commerce Department, responding to a complaint from a New…

Bug Hunt

River Park North, 1000 Mumford Road, will host Bug Hunt from 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday. Participants will take a 1.5-mile hike to search for insects. Cost is $3 for city residents and $5 for others. Call 329-4560.

Summer reading

Sheppard Memorial Library, 530 Evans St., and its branches will…

D.H. Conley High School has announced the following scholarship awards:

Tia Adkins – Greenville Pitt Educational Association

Jackson Allsbrook – St. James United Methodist Church Scholarship

Michael Arce – Pitt Community College Visions Scholarship

Nick Baldwin – East…

Q Our 15-year-old daughter has told us she’s in love with a 20-year-old guy who is in the Army and intending to make the Army his career. We’ve met him, and he is extremely respectful and well-mannered, and has told us he’s in love with her. We’ve made it clear to both of…

In one of my favorite pictures of my father and me, I’m kissing him on the cheek, and he’s looking at the camera with an expression of tired surprise. It was at the end of a weekend visit, and we were saying our goodbyes outside the restaurant where we’d met for breakfast.

I see…

Pitt County is home to world-class eastern North Carolina barbecue.

But there probably aren’t many who realize that different branches of the same family have cooked and sold barbecue in the Ayden area alone for more than 150 years. In fact, two of the best barbecue joints in North Carolina…

My wife is a fantastic cook. She's done so well over the years at providing a wide variety of meals for our daughters that they expect the same kind of service even when she’s away from home.

It is during those lean-table times when my children will actually call upon dear old Dad to come…