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Edgecombe Co. woman celebrates lottery win, chooses lump sum
RALEIGH, N.C. (WITN) - A woman here in the east won the top prize of a lottery and chose to take home a lump sum. Bernica Yelverton, of Princeville, has the top prize of Lucky For Life, according to the North Carolina Education Lottery. She bought her $2 ticket using Online Play.
WNCT.com’s Best of Pets: TJ
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — A senior dog is available for adoption at the Pitt County Animal Shelter. TJ is a Retrieve/Chow Chow mix, and he is looking for his forever home. He has been at the shelter for a little over a month. TJ is seven years old and he often gets overlooked at the […]
Happenings: Events, activities and community announcements
Email announcements at least two weeks in advance to community@reflector.com for publication in The Standard and The Daily Reflector. Winterville movie Winterville Parks and Recreation will begin its Summer Movie and Concert Series with “Migration,” showing June 14 at the Winterville Recreation Park Amphitheater, 332 Sylvania St. The animated film is rated PG. Admission is free and a concession stand will be open Movies begin about 30 minutes after sunset....
Donna Davis: Bands of the Battle — from Vietnam to Greenville, Gary Salt keeps on drumming
Perchance all mothers of young men in the 1960s had reason to worry. There was conflict in distant lands: The draft was inevitable. But Gertrude Salt believed her son was holding his own safety net in each hand, in the form of drumsticks. Decades later, the Craven County native and owner of Salt Wood Products in Greenville, Gary Salt vividly remembers what got him started drumming. “I went to a...
Photo contest celebrates National Park and Recreation Month
Pitt County Community Schools and Recreation is celebrating National Park and Recreation Month in July with a photo contest. People have until June 18 to share photographs of Pitt County residents participating in recreation-based activities at Alice Keene Park, 4561 County Home Road, or at their child’s designated volleyball or soccer location coordinated by Community Schools and Recreation. The photos will be used in publications and on social media during...
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