Rain on Monday at the Greenville Convention Center did not dampen the campaign to inoculate as many people as possible, as quickly as possible in the quest to end COVID-19.
Pitt County government hopes to fund about $6.3 million in capital projects in the 2021-22 fiscal year budget but that amount doesn’t include tens of millions of dollars in requests from the public school system and Pitt Community College.
Email announcements to community@reflector.com.
RALEIGH — The UNC System will overhaul standards for creating new degree program to ensure they prepare students for successful careers, the system’s president told the Board of Governors last week.
RALEIGH — As courthouses begin to reopen across North Carolina, the state’s judicial branch office is preparing to request millions of dollars to help keep them open.
As the county’s public schools students returned to campus on Tuesday, some for the first time since Christmas break, Pitt County Schools is considering where next year’s spring break will fall on the calendar.
Deputies arrested a 20-year-old Greenville man for several break-ins in the Camelot subdivision after they spotted a suspicious vehicle in the area, the Pitt County Sheriff's Office reported.
Pitt County Sheriff's Office deputies made arrests and issued citations against eight men and three juveniles and seized firearms and drugs as part of an enforcement effort north of Greenville last week.
U.S. Rep Greg Murphy announced that he has returned $160,000 of funds allotted to him for operations of his congressional office.
WASHINGTON — Lloyd J. Austin, a West Point graduate who rose to the Army’s elite ranks and marched through racial barriers in a 41-year career, won Senate confirmation Friday to become the nation’s first black secretary of defense.
Former Sam Houston State defensive line coach and Western Michigan defensive coordinator Tim Daoust was officially added to the East Carolina football staff Monday. He was tabbed to coach the Pirate defensive ends and outside linebackers, and serve as special teams coordinator.
As East Carolina basketball fill-in head coach Steve Roccaforte was describing Sunday how the Pirates navigated the last few weeks amid COVID-19 protocols, postponed games and a lack of practices, Roccaforte naturally thought back to the 2020 American Athletic Conference tournament that was …
PINEHURST — The Country Club of North Carolina announced last week a new partnership with PGA Tour pro and East Carolina alum Harold Varner III as a CCNC Ambassador.
CARY – The long journey is over, and D.H. Conley’s volleyball team has returned to the top of the mountain.
East Carolina coach Cliff Godwin worked, virtually of course, with infielder Ryder Giles on Giles’ batting swing early in the offseason after the 2020 college baseball season ended abruptly last March.
Down to eight scholarship players available to play and without head coach Joe Dooley, East Carolina's basketball team was not able to hang with talented Memphis on Sunday in Minges Coliseum in an 80-53 loss to the Tigers.
Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday brought a visceral as well as an intellectual sense of relief. I felt hopeful and happy, as if a great weight had been lifted; a cancer cut out; a deadly disease defeated; or any number of metaphors one could come up with for the replacement of something…
The Jensen Project, an Ohio-based nonprofit organization working to halt sexual violence, shared the following column in support of local efforts to observe January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month and in response to the recent death of 16-year-old Greenville girl who had been the victim…
I opened Suddenlink account with cable and Internet about 20 years ago and have always received excellent service. I live just off Fire Tower. I have family living in other cities and states who get very bad service from some competitors. Think before you complain.
Now that Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress (however narrowly), they will probably approve a new round of federal borrowing to bail out state and local governments with shaky finances.
Commendations to the health providers, law enforcement, military and helpers for such an orchestrated procedure for vaccines for COVID prevention at the Pitt County clinic on Friday. I was very impressed.
The late year 2020 was a face-off year. 2021 begins likewise. We turned off our faces, tucking them away behind paper and fabric. We have steadily grown grim about the mouth and hide our scowls behind masks. It is, as Herman Melville put it, time to quietly take to the ship. Come, sail away …
Wade McIver Bullock of Greenville received his Eagle Scout Award, the highest honor in Boy Scouting, on Jan. 12.
I don’t remember exactly when I took to living in stretch pants full time.
Lost pets
Animal Services
Dr. Jim Bryan, who died on January 8 in Chapel Hill at 88, was the kind of caring physician whom author Allan Gurganus is drawn to.
Most Popular Stories
Articles
- Public schools returning to all-virtual instruction due to COVID-19 spike
- Brice Edwards
- Four arrested in shooting that injured teen, Greenville police report
- Health Department to begin vaccinating seniors by appointment
- Man arrested after desecrating grave
- Greenville mass vaccination site taking appointments today; people on waiting list get priority
- Vidant, Pitt County will accept appointments for vaccine site starting 8 a.m. Friday
- Walstonburg Girl Scout creates self-defense curriculum, earns Gold Award designation
- 212580 JULIE HODGES
- Vidant Health and Pitt County to open large-scale COVID-19 vaccine site on Monday
Images
State AP Stories
FULTONDALE, Ala. (AP) — A terrifying nighttime tornado that blasted through suburban Birmingham, trapping entire families in the remnants of shattered homes and killing a teenager sheltering in his basement, left a trail of destruction Tuesday that stunned even longtime residents used to Ala…
DUNN, N.C. (AP) — Select Bancorp Inc. (SLCT) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $3.9 million.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — First Citizens BancShares Inc. (FCNCA) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter profit of $133.4 million.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — These North Carolina lotteries were drawn Tuesday:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina state senator announced Tuesday that he's running for the U.S. Senate in 2022, hoping to flip fortunes for Democrats from his state to serve in the chamber after a string of defeats.
HAVELOCK, N.C. (AP) — A man was shot and wounded by police after officers said he pointed a rifle at them and a woman, a police department said.
{{summary}}
National & World AP Stories
TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it would be very worrying if the European Union blocked Canada from getting COVID-19 doses from Europe.
FULTONDALE, Ala. (AP) — A terrifying nighttime tornado that blasted through suburban Birmingham, trapping entire families in the remnants of shattered homes and killing a teenager sheltering in his basement, left a trail of destruction Tuesday that stunned even longtime residents used to Ala…
The Biden administration is boosting purchases of coronavirus vaccines to deliver enough to protect 300 million Americans by the end of the summer, as it surges deliveries to states for the next three weeks following complaints of shortages and inconsistent supplies.
Stocks capped a day of muted trading on Wall Street with slight losses Tuesday, giving back some of their modest gains from a day earlier.
Internet users across the northeast U.S. experienced widespread outages for several hours Tuesday, interrupting work and school because of an unspecified Verizon network issue.
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday barred the U.S. government from enforcing a 100-day deportation moratorium that is a key immigration priority of President Joe Biden.
ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte resigned Tuesday after a key coalition ally pulled his party’s support over Conte’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, setting the stage for consultations this week to determine if he can form a third government.
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Immigrant rights activists energized by a new Democratic administration and majorities on Capitol Hill are gearing up for a fresh political battle to push through a proposed bill from President Joe Biden that would open a pathway to citizenship for up to 11 million people.
{{summary}}
