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'Our State' magazine again features Rose Buddies
A feature story in this month’s edition of “Our State” magazine about the world-renowned Rose Buddies took several years to make it to print, says editor Elizabeth Hudson. “This story had been for us years in the making,” said Hudson, who was speaking at Museum of the Albemarle on Tuesday. Hudson and “Our State” staff writer Rebecca Woltz were among the guests attending the museum’s salute to the Rose Buddies...
Pasquotank-Camden EM launches new PASQCAM Alert system
Camden and Pasquotank residents have a new way to receive up-to-date emergency alert notifications. Pasquotank-Camden Emergency Management began operating its all new PASQCAM Alert notification program on Monday, May 20. Examples of emergency information the new mass notification system can provide users include extreme weather forecasts and events, evacuation and shelter-in-place or lockdown notices, missing person and public health alerts and power outages. ...
Hertford budget would raise tax rate by 4 cents
Hertford taxpayers will see a 4-cent property tax rate increase and residents will see increases in both their monthly sewer and electric bills if Town Council approves the town manager’s $7.67 million proposed budget for 2024-25. Hertford Town Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing Tuesday on Manager Janice Cole’s budget proposal that raises the town’s property tax rate from a revenue-neutral 48 cents to 52 cents, base monthly sewer charge from $43.70 to $47.02, and base monthly electric service charge from $15 to...
Parker-White column: School board must honor vote to name track for Wiggins
Editor’s note: This column is an open letter addressed to the citizens of Perquimans County. In 2018, the Perquimans County Board of Education voted to name, posthumously, the future track at the Perquimans County Athletic Complex in honor or Capt. M. Shirley Wiggins, USN (Ret.). In anticipation of the track’s March 2024 grand opening celebration, there was a rumor in the community that the track would not be named after...
Juvenile detention center set to reopen in Winfall
WINFALL — Compared to working with adult inmates, a career as a juvenile corrections officer can be challenging but also more rewarding, says William Lassiter, deputy secretary of the N.C. Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. “I’d say there are more challenges because kids are more impulsive,” said Lassiter. “There also are more benefits, because a kid is changeable, where a lot of the adults that you get in the adult system, they’re kind of stuck in that lifestyle. ...
N.C. Potato Festival draws 33K to city's waterfront over 3 days
Jeffrey Billips likely spoke for many in the record-breaking crowd attending the opening night of the three-day N.C. Potato Festival in Elizabeth City on Friday. “We’re gonna have as much fun as we can tonight just in case the weather changes tomorrow,” Billips said as he and his wife guided three youngsters from one amusement ride to another. Billips was talking about the weekend forecast which called for rain both...
LGC: Hertford no longer on Unit Assistance List
When the Local Government Commission’s next Unit Assistance List comes out, the town of Hertford won’t be on it. The town, which had been on the LGC’s Unit Assistance List, or UAL, for several years because of its financial health and past fiscal management practices, was notified May 17 that it will not be on the state agency’s UAL for 2023. Kendra B. Boyle, director of the fiscal management section...
Currituck budget has 6-cent tax hike, 9-cent increase for Corolla
CURRITUCK — All Currituck property owners could see their property taxes increase by almost 11% beginning July 1. And for property owners in Corolla, their total tax increase could be even more — 16%. All this comes after a 22% property tax increase went into effect for Currituck taxpayers last July 1. Currituck commissioners were...
Many vendors at Potato Festival repeat participants
Many of the food and product vendors at this past weekend’s North Carolina Potato Festival were repeat attendees. Brian Condon, who was vending knives and other cutlery for Cutco, said the company founded in New York in 1949 tries to set up a vendor tent at “pretty much any festival we’re able to attend.” That includes the Potato Festival in Elizabeth City, where the company’s had a vendor tent the...
Letter: Lights at Currituck maintenance building a public nuisance
We have been fighting with the Currituck County commissioners for a year over the public nuisance lights on the new county maintenance building. We have a petition signed by virtually everyone in our neighborhood saying "turn the lights off" but after two presentations to the commissioners they are ignoring us. On Nov. 6, 2023 and March 4, 2024 we gave a presentation to the county commissioners on the light problem and followed it up with an email to the county manager in December and a...
Tater time! EC's Potato Festival starts Friday
The wait is finally over. Elizabeth City’s three-day North Carolina Potato Festival kicks off along the city waterfront Friday at 5 p.m. The annual event features amusement rides, competitions like the National Potato Peeling Contest and the Little Miss Tater Tot Contest, continuous live entertainment, an auto and bike show, an antique tractor display, arts and crafts vendors and of course — everybody’s favorite — food vendors. ...
Camden city officials host 10th annual ‘Alliance for Action’ event
Camden city officials hosted their 10th annual Alliance for Action event where they talked about the growing economic impact in Camden. Several projects were discussed like the redevelopment of the Walter Rand Transportation Center and the construction of a new school and housing. Camden officials say they hope these projects will continue to help develop […]
County to hire engineer to address Wellfield convenience site flooding
Pasquotank County is taking a new approach to improve flooding and storm drainage issues at the Wellfield convenience site off Wellfield Road. The county commissioners agreed during their finance committee meeting last week to allow Pasquotank Manager Sparty Hammett to begin the process of hiring an engineering firm to design measures to address the problem. The Wellfield site is the second largest convenience center operated by Pasquotank’s Solid Waste Department,...
Street closings begin for this weekend's Potato Festival
Street closings for this weekend’s N.C. Potato Festival got underway on Tuesday near Waterfront Park and Museum of the Albemarle as Elizabeth City officials begin gearing up for the annual event that brings 40,000 people to the city waterfront over three days. Water Street between Shepard and Ehringhaus streets was closed, as was Ehringhaus’ right eastbound lane between Water and McMorrine streets. Waterfront Park and the park’s boat ramp also were closed. ...
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