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Labors of love: Workcampers enjoy helping make a difference
Fourteen-year-old Eliana Dintelmann says her dad told her that volunteering again this summer for Group Workcamp would be a good experience. Turns out he was right, Dintelmann says. Dintelmann was among the nearly 400 young people and adults from 13 states who volunteered to take part in this week’s Group Workcamp in the area. Coordinated...
Group Workcampers to help 50 area residents
Approximately 50 residents in Camden, Perquimans and Pasquotank counties will receive free home repairs next week thanks to the efforts of nearly 400 youth and adult volunteers from around the country who will be donating their labor during a weeklong visit to the area. The repair effort is being coordinated by local nonprofit River City Community Development Corp. as part of the national Group Workcamp initiative. Workcamp, which is organized by Group Mission Trips, is a nonprofit, interdenominational Christian volunteer home-repair organization based in Fort...
Davis asks USDA head for disaster declaration over drought
While weather conditions in Camden, Currituck and upper Pasquotank were still “abnormally dry” as of last week, the U.S. Drought Monitor had designated Chowan, Perquimans, and lower Pasquotank counties as areas of “moderate drought.” Across the state of North Carolina, drought conditions have agriculture experts concerned about the effects on this year’s crop production. In the northeastern region, while local agriculture experts are monitoring the situation, Congressman Don Davis, D-N.C., has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to designate 19 of the 21 counties he...
High files for Camden school board, Evans for E-Chowan board
EDENTON — A former Edenton-Chowan Public Schools central office administrator and high school principal has filed for the Edenton-Chowan Board of Education seat being vacated by the board’s chairman. Sheila Evans filed Friday, June 28, for the District 1, Seat 1 position currently held by Gene Jordan, who has already announced he’s not seeking re-election in November. The seats of two other ECPS incumbents — Paul Clifton, who holds District...
Area jobless rate rose to 3.4% in May after falling in April
The six-county area’s unemployment rate ticked up from 3.2% in April to 3.4% in May, thanks to an increase of 175 jobless claims. N.C. Department of Commerce data released last week show the unemployment rates in Pasquotank, Currituck, Chowan, Perquimans, Gates and Camden all edged upward as the total number of jobless claims in the area rose from 1,694 in April to 1,869 in May. The same commerce data showed...
Lane finding she's great fit at NEAAAT
Dr. Leah Lane is experiencing a series of synchronicities. She will tell you that the universe conspired to bring her to the principal’s job at the Northeast Academy for Aerospace and Advanced Technology, the area’s largest charter school. Up until some months ago, Lane, a longtime educator who lives in Camden County, was working for the Dare County Schools as coordinator for the district’s Multi-Tiered System of Support program. She...
Teen missing in Camden County
CAMDEN COUNTY, N.C. (WAVY) — The Camden County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a 16-year-old girl who has been missing since Wednesday morning. Kailynn Winter Conely, 16, is 5-foot-5, 120 pounds and has shoulder-length sandy blonde hair, blue eyes, and was last seen wearing a black hat, black shirt, black pants, light-colored shoes and was […]
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