Pitt County soon will begin spraying for mosquitoes because of a recorded bump in the insect's population.

Spraying could begin as early as this weekend, according to a Friday news release.

The increase in the mosquito population was observed by the Environmental Health Division of the Pitt County…

AYDEN — There's a new economic developer in town.

After a long search process, Mallory Denham was named to the post in August. He was introduced at Monday’s Board of Commissioners meeting.

Denham has been an economic developer since the 1980s.

“I cut my teeth in the '80s in the…

The anticipated drop in ECU enrollment wasn’t as large as predicted, university officials said, but it’s unclear what effect it will on state funding.

Details about fall enrollment 2019 were discussed during the Board of Trustees’ Thursday and Friday sessions.

It was announced…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Among the improbable things for a disastrous day by the East Carolina football team Saturday was that Navy quarterback Malcolm Perry passed for more yards than Holton Ahlers.

Perry and a stingy Navy defense led the charge in the Midshipmen's 42-10 rout of the Pirates in the…

For the fifth straight year, Ayden-Grifton claimed bragging rights over in-county rival Farmville Central, beating the Jaguars 40-12 at Farmville Central High School.

With the win, the Chargers moved to 3-0 on the season and improve their record against the Jaguars to 26-24. Farmville Central…

South Central held off an impressive effort from Pitt County rival North Pitt on Friday night in Bethel, outlasting the Panthers 44-30.

After a blowout loss to SouthWest Edgecombe last week, the Falcons (3-1) had to face considerable opposition from the winless Panthers (0-3).

South Central running…

In December 1999, the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina had plans to open a branch in Greenville to help better serve our neighbors in the east. However, Hurricane Floyd had different plans.

Following the storm, the Greenville Food Bank opened and began to immediately provide…

Are you easily distracted by beautiful landscapes or unique gardens? Would you love to know the trick to growing fruits and veggies? Just wish you could figure out how to rid yourself of those stubborn mystery weeds?

Well, as a self-titled ‘professional plant nerd’, my answer to all of…

When my wife chose Sept. 13 for our wedding day in 1997, she was not looking ahead to see that our 22nd anniversary would fall on Friday the 13th under a full moon.

“So what are we going to do on our anniversary?” I asked Sharon a few days before.

“Oh, probably the same thing we…

Q: My daughter has been diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome. What lifestyle measures can help her? JF, Winterville

A: Yes, lifestyle changes can help your daughter and other women who are diagnosed with PCOS and can reduce some of the undesirable side effects. Chloe Opper, a Brody medical…

“Like parent, like child” is an often-used idiom reflecting an individual’s tendency to carry on the traits of prior generations.

In the case of type 2 diabetes, take heart. While it does tend to run in families, lifestyle changes now can help one avoid, or at least delay, its…

Cucina LaMantia Sicilian Ristorante at 3700 S. Memorial Drive in front of Lowe’s has some exciting news for their customers. Starting Oct. 1, they will be serving lunch off a menu 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 

They have been open for almost a year and in that time have built…

Saturday, I came full circle.

I had the opportunity to sit in the new press box at East Carolina's Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium and my thoughts were “how much this has changed since I first sat in one on this field.”

Way back in the fall of 1963, I was living in Goldsboro and writing for the…

Letter writing is not what it used to be, so I get excited when something arrives in the mailbox with my name on it. No letters lately, but in the span of two weeks the same friend mailed movies, on DVD, that he thought I would enjoy.

I watch movies these days about as often as I write letters. And…

RALEIGH

The sequence is easy to envision — East Carolina quarterback Holton Ahlers sheds the tackle attempt and powers the final few yards into the end zone for a Pirate touchdown Saturday, not long after a noon kickoff, at sold-out Carter-Finley Stadium.

ECU scores on its first offensive…