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Council on Aging activities ongoing
The Pitt County Council on Aging is offering the following classes and programs. All offerings are free and located at the Pitt County Wellness Center, 4551 County Home Road, unless otherwise noted. Registration is required unless otherwise noted by calling 752-1717, Ext. 201. Stretch and balance class, 12:30-1:15 p.m. Mondays. Cost $4 per session paid monthly.Shape Up & Get Fit, 10-10:50 a.m. Mondays. Intense workout that incorporates strength training and cardiovascular exercise. Free weights, resistance bands, and an exercise mat are necessary to participate. Cost...
Third Saturday in October designated Great Trails State Day
Recently passed legislation encourages North Carolina residents to get moving on trail systems across the Tar Heel state. The third Saturday in October will be North Carolina’s Great Trails State Day, thanks to the N.C. General Assembly’s 2024 Farm Bill. The bill recently passed unanimously in both the N.C. House and Senate. It became law with Gov. Roy Cooper’s signature. This year, Great Trails State Day will occur on Oct. 19. ...
July 19 abby: Daughter has troubling memories of dad
DEAR ABBY: When I was young and even as I grew older, my father touched me inappropriately. It made me uncomfortable even as an adult. I feel like when I was very small, something more may have happened. I may have been drugged to keep me from remembering. I know a few weird things that went on, and my mother knew about it. I always felt uncomfortable around him. Yet I loved my parents very much. I have the weirdest dreams about them doing things to me that I don't like. ...
Tom Campbell: Lawmakers continue to fail public schools
Tears are being shed over the legislature’s failure to appropriate additional funding for private school vouchers. One Charlotte mom complained, “We voted them in with the promise they’d give a free education to all, and it hasn’t happened.” Dear Charlotte mom. You are wrong. Every child in North Carolina has the opportunity of a free education in traditional public schools. Your child is not being punished. In fact, those who are being punished are the children in traditional schools — punished because our General Assembly...
Star Parker: Shooting offers path to unite us
It is not trivial to observe that the good news regarding the horrible assassination attempt on Donald Trump is that just about everyone agrees what happened is very bad and not an encouraging sign about the state of our nation. After that point of agreement, many different and diverging opinions emerge about who or what is to blame. This act of violence against Donald Trump is, unfortunately, not a one-off...
NC State Chancellor announces retirement after nearly 15 years
RALEIGH — Another chancellor in North Carolina’s public university system has announced plans to step down — this time at the state’s largest university by enrollment. North Carolina State University Chancellor Randy Woodson declared his retirement plans at the university’s trustees meeting Thursday, capping off nearly 15 years in his role. His term will officially end June 30, 2025, Woodson said. His departure marks yet another chancellor vacancy in the...
Comedian Bob Newhart, deadpan master of sitcoms and telephone monologues, dies at 94
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Newhart, the deadpan accountant-turned-comedian who became one of the most popular TV stars of his time after striking gold with a classic comedy album, has died at 94. Jerry Digney, Newhart's publicist, says the actor died Thursday in Los Angeles after a series of short illnesses. Newhart, best remembered now as the star of two hit television shows of the 1970s and 1980s that bore...
ECU Notes: Pirates, Peruvians build lasting connection
It was easy for Angel Castañeda Vargas, a student at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (Peruvian University of Applied Sciences), to summarize how he felt on East Carolina University’s campus for a week last month. He stood between ECU baseball’s Clark-LeClair Stadium, about an hour before the start of a sold-out NCAA regional game, and 50,000-seat football venue Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium as Pirate tailgaters surrounded him and his Peruvian peers. Filled...
Local roundup: Tar Heel 9-11s and 10-12s romp to state championships in Wilson
Greenville baseball teams continued their state tournament dominance on Wednesday night and Thursday morning at Wilson’s Gillette Athletic Complex, as the Tar Heel 9-11 and 10-12 Little League teams grabbed state crowns. With a loss still to give, Tar Heel 9-11 cruised past Lake Norman in an 8-0 rout to win the championship on Wednesday night before the 10-12s followed suit with a 10-0 shutout of Bull City on Thursday morning. ...
Local roundup: Tar Heel 9-11s and 10-12s romp to state championships in Wilson
Greenville baseball teams continued their state tournament dominance on Wednesday night and Thursday morning at Wilson’s Gillette Athletic Complex, as the Tar Heel 9-11 and 10-12 Little League teams grabbed state crowns. With a loss still to give, Tar Heel 9-11 cruised past Lake Norman in an 8-0 rout to win the championship on Wednesday night before the 10-12s followed suit with a 10-0 shutout of Bull City on Thursday morning. ...
Local roundup: Tar Heel 9-11s and 10-12s romp to state championships in Wilson
Greenville baseball teams continued their state tournament dominance on Wednesday night and Thursday morning at Wilson’s Gillette Athletic Complex, as the Tar Heel 9-11 and 10-12 Little League teams grabbed state crowns. With a loss still to give, Tar Heel 9-11 cruised past Lake Norman in an 8-0 rout to win the championship on Wednesday night before the 10-12s followed suit with a 10-0 shutout of Bull City on Thursday morning. ...
Yard Gnomes: Herring, other players honing skills for bigger things
Jack Herring happened to be in Greenville at the right time. The former Rollins College (Fla.) outfielder came to town ahead of his summer league assignment of playing ball for the Greenville Yard Gnomes in the Coastal Plain League. That’s when he and his summer league teammates had a prime opportunity to check out an East Carolina baseball game. ...
Appeals court reinstates former officer's qualified immunity in 2019 Greenville killing
A federal court on Friday ruled that a former Greenville police officer acted within the bounds of immunity granted to officials during a 2019 shooting that killed an unarmed man. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals partially reversed and dismissed a 2022 U.S. District Court of Eastern North Carolina decision that would have allowed a jury to consider whether former Greenville Police Department officer David Johnson violated the Constitutional rights of Sean Rambert, 23. ...
Two arrested in shooting death near Guy Smith
A 20-year-old was killed Wednesday night after two men exited a car on Memorial Drive and shot into another vehicle that was stopped in traffic, the Greenville Police Department reported. The incident occurred about 6 p.m. in the 900 block of South Memorial near the entrance to an AutoZone, police said. That’s at Crosswinds Street north of Moye Boulevard not far from Guy Smith Park. Terrance Harrell was in the...
President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19 while campaigning in Las Vegas, has 'mild symptoms'
LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 while traveling Wednesday in Las Vegas and is experiencing “mild symptoms” including “general malaise” from the infection, the White House said. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden will fly to his home in Delaware, where he will “self-isolate and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time." The news had first been shared by UnidosUS President and CEO Janet Murguía, who told guests at the group's convention in Las...
Matthew Stevens: Great-tasting peaches can be tough to grow
Peaches are one of my favorite fruits to eat during the summer. It’s really hard to beat the flavor of a fresh peach picked just that day, but growing peaches is unfortunately not as easy as one would hope, due to a variety of disease and insect problems, as well as a danger of ill-timed frosts reducing yield. Peaches are native to China but have been grown in the Southeastern United States since the early 1900s. Like most fruit trees, they are normally grafted to...
Community Crossroads raising funds for resource center
Nearly a month after breaking ground on its resource center project, Community Crossroads Center is urging community members to contribute to its capital campaign. The center, Greenville’s only homeless shelter, needs to raise $1 million to fully fund construction of the 13,000-square-foot facility. It will house a medical clinic, learning labs, classrooms, conference space, offices for partner organizations, and storage. The cost of the project is $4.2 million. Once it’s...
Letter: Boys don't cry
As kids in elementary school, my classmates and I were taught some damaging conventions. Among them: “Boys don’t cry. Pink is for girls and blue is for boys. Girls play with dolls, and boys play football.” And that hideous list went on and on. During my phys ed classes in second and third grade (1967–1969) there was a boy who cried, presumably because he didn’t have the strength or coordination to compete in dodgeball and other sports. He displayed immense frustration, which resulted in tears....
Kathryn Jean Lopez: GOP aborts its claim as pro-life party
Pro-life people believe abortion to be the human rights issue of our lifetime, one with eternal stakes. With the Republican Party's changes to its platform regarding abortion, it's hard to believe the GOP is in the cause for the long haul — never mind the eternal. The platform no longer calls for an end to abortion, opting instead for the leave-it-to-the-states position. This platform and likely presidential nominee Donald Trump have abandoned any even nominal claim to the moral high ground. Lauren Onak, vice-presidential candidate...
Cynthia Tucker: Rise of misinformation undermines trust in facts
My sister recently told me that her former supervisor at a small-town library doesn't believe the moon landings were real. I was stunned to hear that, but I shouldn't have been. My sister's former boss is a college-educated professional — and younger than the old folks I used to hear disputing the facts of the moon landings — but she is hardly an anomaly. We live in an age of misinformation, disinformation, easily accepted conspiracy theories and broad distrust of reliable sources of information. As...
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