Greenville Utilities Board of Commissioners on Thursday unanimously voted to declare its former Mumford Road Operations Center surplus property, the first step towards selling the land.
In the early weeks of 2020, just before the coronavirus pandemic began dominating the headlines, a literacy organization that had served the community for more than 30 years closed a chapter with hardly a word.
Four Pitt County high school seniors are among 20 members of the Class of 2022 selected for EC Scholars, the most prestigious undergraduate award program offered at East Carolina University.
A public art tour along the route of the Emerald Express Trolley is scheduled from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Emerge Gallery & Arts Center announced.
First Christian Church is thinking out of the box for ways to help the homeless by having members of its youth group sleep outside in a cardboard box.
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A firm that supports cryptocurrency says uncertainty around energy costs have led them to pause development of a data processing facility in Greenville.
Pitt County law enforcement is investigating two vehicle break-ins on B’s Barbecue Road in Greenville.
WINTERVILLE — Police officers, firefighters and public works staff sounded their vehicles’ sirens and honked their horns for the children attending a touch-a-truck event at Winterville’s first Market on the Square of the season on May 12.
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North Pitt Middle School (featuring players from Wellcome, Pactolus, Bethel and Stokes) triumphed over Chicod School in the Pitt County soccer championship match played on May 12.
Zach Agnos started the kindling and the rest of the East Carolina lineup fanned the flames into a roaring fire.
FARMVILLE — Farmville Central’s girls’ soccer team saw its standout season come to an end Thursday as it suffered a 4-0 loss to visiting Franklin Academy in the second round of the 2A playoffs.
The East Carolina baseball team got to the finish line first.
Rob Maloney was named director of athletics for Pitt County Schools on Wednesday, according to an announcement from PCS Superintendent Ethan Lenker.
Tuesday night saw eight area teams in action between the third round of the NCHSAA softball and baseball playoffs and the opening round of the girls’ soccer playoffs.
Receiving a good education is more than performing well in school. Students need to be given the skills to be able to adapt to any environment or life destination. There needs to be more emphasis on analyzing, deciphering and utilizing the information learned effectively.
Humans glorify science for advancing our understanding, else we would still believe the world is flat as the center of the universe, and the atom is the tiniest particle in that universe.
President Biden likes to tout his role as “Sheriff Joe” in the Obama administration, where he helped distribute and monitor billions in recovery aid in response to the Great Recession. But another key part of the cleanup from the 2008 financial crisis was tighter regulation of Wall Street ba…
Recent remarks by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, noting the institutional damage caused by the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion on Roe v. Wade, have gotten exhaustive coverage in the press.
Bless your heart to local businesses that took big advantage of COVID funds. I am all for helping those that need help but some are way better off than before. New houses, new cars, all the best and all since COVID funding. Guess I need to open a business that I can funnel money through. Mus…
Pundits and politicos like to talk about “mainstream” or “main street” Republicans, as if they made up a significant percentage of today’s GOP. But make no mistake, the May 17 primary election proved beyond doubt that the Trump cult (and there’s no denying they are a cult) is firmly in contr…
“There are few better ways to spend a cloudy, dull Sunday afternoon than sitting in the cinema tucking in to a nice comforting slice of Downton Abbey. ‘Life is like a twisting, turning novel,’ one of the characters says wistfully, and that’s one of Downton’s charms; nice pithy little pearls …
Naomi Judd thought she understood the ties that bind country music stars and their audience — then one aggressive fan went and joined the Pentecostal church the Judd family called home.
This fantastic flower was produced on a tree at what we here in Columbia call the Belser Arboretum, a 7-acre (or so) tract of forested land pretty much in the middle of the city, and two blocks from my home.
I’ll repeat last week’s COVID tip. If you want to wear a mask, do so. There may only be a few of you in a crowd that do, but Americans still are getting sick and some are dying every day. Eat healthy (most of the time), be physically active, wash your hands often and mind your distance.
Tabbouleh is a bulgur salad; in fact, it’s also a very green salad. It consists of an abundance of fresh garden herbs, jumbled together with bulgur, citrus and olive oil, which paint this salad an unmistakable green. You might also call tabbouleh a very greedy salad, since there seems to be …
The Service League of Greenville has pledged a $2 million endowment to sustain programs and services within ECU Health Medical Center. This matches the organization’s gift to the Vidant Cancer Center capital campaign in 2015.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several state legislators won't be returning to the North Carolina General Assembly next January after primary losses, while former lawmakers had mixed results in trying to get back to the House or Senate.
Printing mistakes will force local election officials in Pennsylvania and Oregon to redo thousands of mailed ballots, a laborious process that could delay results for some closely contested races in Tuesday's primaries.
RALElGH, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ted Budd and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley won their respective Senate primaries on Tuesday, setting up a fall election matchup that should again test former President Donald Trump's influence in North Carolina.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump’s choice for Pennsylvania governor won his primary Tuesday night and his Senate pick was locked in an exceedingly close contest as the former president worked to expand his hold on the Republican Party.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — First-term U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost his Republican primary race Tuesday to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, after the pro-Donald Trump firebrand's personal and political blunders translated into voter unhappiness.
Former President Donald Trump’s winning streak in U.S. Senate primaries is on the line today as voters in North Carolina and four other states cast their ballots in midterm elections.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's winning streak in U.S. Senate primaries is on the line Tuesday as voters in five states cast their ballots in midterm elections.
WILSON, N.C. (AP) — Wilson County’s only commercial hemp grower says if medical marijuana becomes legal in North Carolina, he will be a good candidate to grow it with the knowledge he has gained.
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GAYLORD, Mich. (AP) — A rare tornado tore through a small northern Michigan community on Friday, inflicting injuries, flipping vehicles, tearing the roofs off buildings and causing other damage.
OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker in Oregon is calling for an investigation into a ballot-printing fiasco that will delay results from Tuesday’s primary by weeks, with a key U.S. House race hanging in the balance in a state that prides itself on voter access and election t…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border must continue, a judge ruled Friday in an order blocking the Biden administration’s plan to lift them early next week.
POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol on Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine, after a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of the strategic port city to a smoking ruin, with over 20,000 civilians feared dead.
NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Angell, the celebrated baseball writer and reigning man of letters who during an unfaltering 70-plus years helped define The New Yorker’s urbane wit and style through his essays, humor pieces and editing, has died. He was 101.
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street rumbled to the edge of a bear market Friday after another drop for stocks briefly sent the S&P 500 more than 20% below its peak set early this year.
NEW YORK (AP) — The bear came close to Wall Street but then backed off.
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Fearing the Monastery of the Angels could be sold for private use or redevelopment, Los Angeles preservationists and advocates are forming a nonprofit as they seek to acquire and take responsibility for the beloved Hollywood home to cloistered Dominican nuns.
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