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Repairs ongoing in Elizabeth City after equipment failure at power substation left about 1,000 customers in the dark
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — Dominion Energy crews are working to restore power in Elizabeth City following an equipment failure at a substation on Tuesday afternoon. A spokesperson with Dominion said the crew was able to isolate the failed equipment. Dominion provides the power to the municipal electric department that serves Elizabeth City.
Good’s ‘buzzer-beater’ gives Greenfield draw with DASH
With time running out for Greenfield School in Monday’s nonconference varsity boys soccer match against DASH United, the host Knights ran their final play to a T — literally. Trailing 1-0 to DASH United home school team as the final seconds whizzed by on the Forbes Field scoreboard, Knights junior Noah Wright sent a cross into the box where sophomore […] The post Good’s ‘buzzer-beater’ gives Greenfield draw with DASH first appeared on Restoration NewsMedia.
Barton College’s Bulldog Believers
Chip Hester had a vision. There were days during that long week back in September 2020 when the thermometer touched 90 degrees and the eastern North Carolina humidity felt thick enough to chew. Hester, the coach of the newly reestablished football program at Barton College in Wilson, drove one tractor and Todd Wilkinson, the school’s director of athletics, drove the other. Barton’s first class of 80 football recruits — including 31 uplifted by an improbable legacy they knew nothing about — worked in shifts to plant the sod for a field upon which they would soon practice as a team. Though none of them would put on a game uniform for another year, they were already Bulldogs. “Those guys literally laid the foundation of our program with their own sweat equity,” Hester says. “Fortunately, we’d recruited a bunch of tough country boys who were used to hard work and getting their hands dirty.”
‘One man crime spree:’ North Carolina felon gets 15 years after firing gun toward school, leading cops on 118 mph chase
Crip gang member Jahmez Tavaughn Jackson was already a felon on probation wearing an ankle monitor when he fired shots toward a Wilmington school -- and then fled in a 118 mph chase, officials said.
NC DMV adds self-service kiosks in grocery stores
The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles is adding more self-service kiosks. In an effort to reduce traffic at DMV offices across the state, N.C. DMV has added six more self-service kiosks somewhere you might not expect — at Harris Teeter grocery stores. The Charlotte area has received three...
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