The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and North Carolina State University are working together to provide a healthy lifestyle camp for overweight youth to be held at the Eastern 4-H Center in Columbia.
Tom Wheless has been named Rotarian of the Year by the Rotary Club of Ayden.
Wheless has served as an active member of the Rotary Club since 1957 and is chairman of the club's annual Pancake Jamboree.
Anglers can fish for free July Fourth. State law establishes the holiday as a free fishing day for all public fishing waters in North Carolina — both saltwater and freshwater — as a way to promote fishing.
A trio of students in East Carolina University's College of Allied Health Sciences has helped give children with special needs a place to play outside.
Pitt County Greek-letter sororities and fraternities are working to organize a Pitt County chapter of the National Pan-Hellenic Council, which is comprised of nine international Greek-letter organizations.