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KDH Wawa to open May 16, EC store sometime later this year
As construction ramps up on the Wawa store in Elizabeth City, the Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain says it plans to open its first North Carolina store in Dare County next month. The Wawa store in Kill Devil Hills will open at 1900 Croatan Highway on Thursday, May 16, at 8 a.m. with a grand opening and ribbon cutting to follow at 10 a.m., the company said in a press release. ...
Extension Master Gardener Volunteers Spring Garden Show Saturday
TODAYRed Cross blood drives The American Red Cross will host a blood drive in the Sentara Albemarle Medical Center education rooms Thursday from noon to 5 p.m. A second blood drive will be held Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Albemarle Area Association of Realtors’ main room at 426 McArthur Drive, Elizabeth City. School of Arts Showcase ...
Tobias column: Chorale concert will pierce your heart with beauty
I’ve had the privilege and pleasure of singing with my friends in the Albemarle Chorale for seven years. We’ve sung a lot of wonderful music. But this spring’s concert, I think, will be the loveliest and most meaningful. In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Edenton Resolves (which was a revolutionary action of defiance against the British Crown by 51 courageous women who did not hide behind disguises), the Chorale is singing 11 works either lyricized or composed (or both) by female poets and...
Carolina Moon Theater Company to debut 'Wage Warfare' May 11
HERTFORD — Lynne Raymond already had a full-time gig as director of Historic Hertford, Inc., when her minister approached her about starting a community theater group 11 years ago. Raymond was skeptical of the idea at first. “Mary Lou Soper and I go to the Hertford United Methodist Church. Our minister back then, Pastor Larry Bowden, said he wanted to talk to us about starting a community theater group,” she...
Jacavone column: Video series to help navigate genealogical resources
At the Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library, we receive many inquiries about genealogy and local history. Not only does the North Carolina History Room on the second floor have several books, maps, and articles to get you started on researching your family history, but thanks to the digitization of several genealogical records and ease of internet access, your library card can give you additional access to hundreds of thousands of pages of digitized and text-searchable historical records. ...
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