The Pitt County Sheriff's Office and the Pitt County Council on Aging on Saturday held its annual Senior Prom at the Pitt County Senior Center. The event's them was "The Time of My Life" and featured good, music and lots of fun and surprises.
A Charles Boulevard gas station is expected to be under renovations until Nov. 17 of this year.
Countenance, an East Carolina University student magazine, has won the 2022 Silver Crown award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
Tradesformers, a youth apprenticeship program designed to connect talented students with growing industry trades in the area, conducted its annual “Signing Day” event Tuesday at the Pitt County Community, Schools and Recreation center.
Pitt County rising high school seniors Garbielle Adams and Lane Stocks were recognized for completing NC Farm Bureau’s Institute for Future Agricultural Leaders program. At left, Stocks and Adams hold their certificates. Pictured with them are, from left, Travis Park and Joy Morgan, NC State…
The following deeds were recorded with the Pitt County Register of Deeds from April 6-12. Each $2 in revenue stamps is equal to $1,000 in valuation. (No fee required.)
The following new corporations in Pitt and neighboring counties filed May 16-20 with the N.C. Secretary of State’s office:
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The following deeds of trust were recorded with the Pitt County Register of Deeds from May 5-11:
A troubled student housing development built north of the Tar River in the mid-2000s can now be rented as market-rate apartments following a vote of the Greenville Board of Adjustment on Thursday.
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After relying on a high-powered offense all season, Truist found itself in an unfamiliar place in Game 1 of the Greenville Little Leagues City Championship Wednesday and Thursday night, as it was shut down at the plate in a 4-1 loss at the hands of Ross Orthodontics.
Soaring through the air, upside down, gaining the power to launch over a bar 14 feet off the ground might seem like a nightmare to some. For East Carolina’s All-American pole vaulter Sommer Knight, defying gravity is part of the thrill.
Thirty-one local senior athletes representing the Greenville-Pitt County Senior Games made the trek to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., recently to compete in the National Games as part of Team North Carolina.
Truist kept its title hopes alive with a 9-2 victory over Ross Orthodontics in Game 2 of the Greenville Little Leagues City Championship series Friday night.
East Carolina rising sophomore distance runners Jack Dingman and Madeline Hill are competing at the United States Track and Field U20 Championships this week at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
Ross Orthodontics is just one win shy of its first Greenville Little League City Championship title since 2015 after defeating Truist 4-1 in Game 1 Thursday night.
BYH to all of the LED street lights that are stealing our dark skies and ability to see stars not to mention causing sleep health problems, animal migration issues, and songbirds singing at odd times.
I started off to write something this week about COVID-19. That’s because I am currently suffering from some shape or form of this stupid virus.
This week marked the delayed arrival of the Emancipation Proclamation into the state of Texas on June 19th, and the freeing of slaves in the Confederacy. It would still take nearly another year for slavery to be outlawed in the United States with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
So, I should move from Winterville to the country to avoid development? How about Chicod? No, with the sewer expansion, Greenville will be annexing it soon enough.
J. Michael Luttig is an orthodox conservative and loyal Republican, appointed to the federal bench by President Bush 41 and often mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee. So when he appeared before the Congressional committee investigating the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, his words of…
The debate over gun restrictions bothers me for two seemingly contradictory reasons.
How does a musician go from putting his guitar under the bed and declaring, “I’m done” to being named the No. 1 entertainer in downtown Greenville?
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Innovation Early College High School has announced the following scholarship award recipients from the Class of 2022, its first graduating class:
From dust to dust, the story of the cosmos plays out.
“How can I be happy, Dr. Mercer?” a student asked in class during a lecture on the Hebrew Bible book of Ecclesiastes, one of my favorites and an intriguing meditation on the meaning and purpose of life.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Sekou Cooke’s curated exhibit in uptown Charlotte on hip-hop architecture has a lot to offer.
PHOENIX (AP) — The skies over a scattering of Western U.S. cities will stay dark for the third consecutive Fourth of July as some major fireworks displays are canceled again this year, this time for fire concerns amid dry weather, along with pandemic related supply or staffing problems.
Churches across the U.S. are tackling the big question of how to address homelessness in their communities with a small solution: tiny homes.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — After debuting last summer, the dinosaurs at Sweet Valley Ranch are ready to wake from their slumbers.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ended the nation's constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Friday’s decision by the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade with a 5-3 decision, eliminating the U.S. constitutional right to an abortion prompted the following reaction from state and local elected officials and candidates:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court gave Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina a win Thursday in a fight over the state's latest photo identification voting law.
HOPEWELL, Va. (AP) — All four inmates who escaped a minimum-security prison satellite camp in Virginia over the weekend are now back in custody, the U.S. Marshals Service and Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Wednesday.
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Stocks swayed in afternoon trading on Wall Street Monday as the market cools off following a rare winning week.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — “Woman’s Choice,” the sign proclaims in bold pink letters. But despite promising abortion information and free pregnancy testing, the facility in Charleston, West Virginia, is designed to steer women facing an unwanted pregnancy away from choosing an abortion.
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Scores of civilians were feared killed or wounded in a Russian missile strike Monday on a crowded shopping mall in Ukraine's central city of Kremenchuk, Ukrainian officials said.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The fall of Roe v. Wade shifted the battleground over abortion to courthouses around the country Monday, as one side sought quickly to put statewide bans into effect and the other tried to stop or at least delay such measures.
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO allies will decide at a summit this week to increase the strength of their rapid reaction force nearly eightfold to 300,000 troops as part of their response to an “era of strategic competition," the military alliance's secretary-general said Monday.
LONDON (AP) — Russia appeared to default on its foreign debt for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution more than a century ago, further alienating the country from the global financial system following sanctions imposed over its war in Ukraine.
MOSCOW (AP) — Shackled and looking wary, WNBA star Brittney Griner was ordered to stand trial Friday by a court near Moscow on cannabis possession charges, about 4 1/2 months after her arrest at an airport while returning to play for a Russian team.
ESSEX, Vt. (AP) — Before the pandemic, there was no room in the budget for Kate Murphy’s children to buy lunch at school. She and her husband would buy in bulk and make bag lunches at home. So the free school meals that were made available to students nationwide amid the crisis have brought …
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