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Riley’s Army fundraiser

Riley’s Army will hold the sixth annual On the Run with Riley’s Army 5K Run/1K Fun Walk at 3 p.m. at Winterville Recreation Park adjacent to A.G. Cox Middle School. Opening ceremonies start at 2:30 p.m., the 1K Fun Run begins at 3 p.m. and the…

A 37-year-old man charged with driving while impaired in July was charged again after he crashed his motorcycle and was seriously injured on Reedy Branch Road near Davie Street in Winterville. 

On Sept. 7 about 7:15 p.m., the State Highway Patrol responded to a motorcycle wreck in…

The Lucille Gorham Intergenerational Community Center will soon have some help with its electrical needs thanks to the sun, students and faculty in the East Carolina University College of Engineering and Technology, and a Constellation E2 Energy to Educate grant.

CET students partnered with the…

Cyndi Lauper once said girls just want to have fun, but boys do too, right?

In a sport that has been ridiculed for being overly restrictive in just about every way, one of the few forms of freedom NASCAR drivers still have is in their postrace victory celebrations.

I love seeing what some guys do.…

Although it naturally casts a far-reaching shadow over East Carolina athletics, the Pirates’ dismal start to the football season should not diminish the spotlight that is brewing in non-revenue sports this fall.

There were not high expectations for ECU women’s soccer this year, but the…

Scottie Montgomery firmly believes his East Carolina football team playing at Connecticut on Sunday, more than a month before originally scheduled, is a much-needed shot in the arm for his team.

Although the 0-3 Pirates are feeling the physical and mental effects of three tough games, their…

After all the GOP howling about deficits when President Barack Obama was trying to stave off a depression in 2009, Republicans now in power are getting ever closer to adding an enormous amount to the debt - not to save the economy but to finance a big tax cut. The hypocrisy is bad, but if they…

I visualize sane people bursting a gut laughing as I did at a letter in the opinion section of The Daily Reflector on Monday, Sept. 18, titled, “Trump Is A Positive Influence.”

Well, we need to have our laugh, then get serious and recognize that this is the kind of manufactured…

In the name of the people of the United States, our president has threatened to wipe out a country of more than 20 million people. To do such damage, he would need nuclear weapons. Of all places to make such a threat, he chose the United Nations, an organization we created after World War II to try…

Q I allowed my daughter and her now-husband to continue to live with me after they got married a few months ago, in hopes that they would fly the coop soon so I can finally have an empty nest. They are both 21. They both work retail and go to school. I know they would very much like to live on…

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plain has announced its Youth of the Month winners.

Youth are selected for the honor based on contributions to their club, school, family and community as well as personal challenges and obstacles they have overcome.

Pitt County award recipients include:

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He’d worked on the blanket for months. Rod Hardin’s knitting needles clicked as he lounged beside the pool on vacation in Atlantic City, and little kids paused to marvel at the Santa Claus look-alike in a Hawaiian shirt, draped in threads of yarn. When autumn came, he continued his…

When tonight’s slate of high school football games wraps up, we will officially be halfway through the regular season.

With six weeks under our belt, Pitt County’s haves and have-nots have all but established themselves. Four county teams have winning records entering tonight (Ayden-…

There was a buzz in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium early Saturday evening.

A few thousand people, maybe, were straggled across the concrete-and metal-colored grandstands in the football home of East Carolina – or is it only ECU now, or maybe #ECU?

The stadium's bells and whistles (and promotions) were…

Nothing screams eastern North Carolina more than whole hog barbecue. From Skylight Inn to B’s Barbecue to Parkers and Sam Jones, good barbecue is not just a staple of the region; it’s a staple of the South.

Barbecue turned into my adopted favorite food when I first moved to Greenville…