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Reading event

A Children’s Reading & Craft Event for kindergartners through fifth graders will be held at 4 p.m. on Monday at the New Wynn Chapel Life Center, 191 Package-Craft Road, Bethel. The book, Miles is the Boss of His Body, will be the focus of the program. The book is about…

Free meals, parades and ceremonies are nice gestures of support, however, many veterans fall through the cracks when they return home from deployments and the transition from soldier to citizen is often a daunting task.

According to a 2018 Department of Veteran’s Affairs Military to Civilian…

A report on events that led to the resignation of East Carolina University’s former interim chancellor indicates that he consumed 7-10 drinks at four bars over six hours then later retrieved his vehicle and drove home on the night of Sept. 25-26.

The report from Womble Bond Dickinson, the law…

Ninety-four points, zero wins.

East Carolina’s football team was dealt that harsh reality in its first two games of November, scoring 43 in a three-point loss to Cincinnati at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium and then on Saturday producing even more points — 51 — but also allowing more in a…

Frida night's games were the end of the line for three area teams, North Pitt, Farmville Central and Greene Central. For the remaining teams, Ayden-Grifton, J.H. Rose, D.H. Conley and South Central, there is still work to be done in the state playoffs. See who stood out in the final week of the…

Let's expand this exercise, for one week, to include South Carolina. The Battle for The Carolinas.

Clemson, obviously, would be No. 1. South Carolina would be fourth thanks to its win over Georgia.

No. 2? Appalachian State, which would own road victories over No. 3 North Carolina and fourth-ranked…

I think most everyone would agree that our greatest national resource is our young people. What a breath of fresh air is the story of Greenville’s own Logan Council. Imagine what our country could accomplish if our State Department ($40 billion) was funded on the same level as the Department…

BYH to the potentate of potatoes. If I consumed all the tasty versions of potatoes listed, I would soon be the size of a fully grown farm hog.

BYH to the writer who wants to focus on real-world issues. BYH is a column for giving thanks or venting ideas. It is not a column for hateful talk, or…

DALLAS

Tucked in a super clean and sometimes sleepy nook in Dallas is the campus at SMU, a private school that has stirred to life this fall behind a nationally ranked football team that provides excitement for its tidy, polite fan base with a fun-to-watch, prolific offense and an outside-the-box…

Individuals dealing with mental illness and substance use often find the stigma to be quite a challenge.

Besides handling the symptoms and disabilities of their disease, they face stereotypes and prejudices that arise because of misconceptions about mental illness, said Glenn Simpson, administrator…

WASHINGTON, N.C. — A few short miles from Greenville is the charming waterfront town of Washington, N.C. Strolling down the historic Main Street, just a few blocks from the Pamlico Riverfront, you can find quaint shops and restaurants featuring beautiful and charming decades-old facades. They…

DALLAS

Tucked in a super clean and sometimes sleepy nook in Dallas is the campus at SMU, a private school that has stirred to life this fall behind a nationally ranked football team that provides excitement for its tidy, polite fan base with a fun-to-watch, prolific offense and an outside-the-box…

Generation Z has had it with us baby boomers. We were handed a golden opportunity to make the world better and we blew it. “OK boomer” has become its rallying cry of collective mistrust.

I live with three Gee Zees (I made that up because it’s easier and more fun to say), and not…

Performances in athletics can be great, they can be memorable and they can be record-breaking, but that doesn’t always equal a win.

Sports outcomes can be cruel sometimes, which is what happened Saturday night when East Carolina played its best football game of the season — by far…