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Goose Nest Festival slated for May
On May 18 Goose Nest Festival T-shirt collectors will have the opportunity to add a third garment to their collection as Goose Net Festival Founder and Chair Vonetta Porter and her team of volunteers transform the tiny town of Oak City into a metropolis. Last year, over 2,000 festival-goers converged on the one-square mile town of 260 residents to watch the morning parade and partake in the day’s festivities. While this year’s festival is expected to top that, there will not be a parade. ...
Mother, boyfriend get probation in deaths of two children
A local couple recently avoided prison sentences for the deaths of two children nearly two years ago in the Southeast Rocky Mount area. The children — a 1-year-old girl and her 3-month-old brother — died after their mother and her boyfriend left them in a car with the engine and heater on during a cool morning on April 23, 2022. Zharia Noel and Ahmene Butler, both 23, pleaded guilty to...
Local man, 34, receives life sentence for 2021 fatal shooting
A local man was sentenced to serve life in prison after an N.C. Superior Court jury in Edgecombe County recently found him guilty of first-degree murder. Darryel Hill, 34, stood trial last week for the fatal shooting of another man more than three years ago in Rocky Mount. Hill on Friday was processed in at Central Prison in Raleigh to begin serving his life sentence, according to N.C. Public Safety...
PETA official: What happened to Princess
“What has happened to Princess” was the question PETA Assistant Director of Local Affairs Rachel Bellis asked the Bertie County Commissioners last Monday after speculation Princess and two of her four puppies had died due to neglect. However, according to the dog’s owner, Traquan Pugh, he had given Princess and two of her puppies away. “I gave Princess and two pups away,” Pugh told the Bertie Ledger-Advance Tuesday evening. ...
Martin County softball on 15-game winning streak
The Martin County Girls softball team is on a 15-game winning streak. Martin County hosted the Perquimans Pirates on Tuesday, April 16. The Pirates held Martin County and Martin County held the Pirates. Neither team scored a run until the sixth inning of play in Tuesday’s game. Martin County put two runs on the board to win the game, with a final score of 2-0. Martin County had four hits, no errors and two runs scored. Perquimans had two hits, two errors and no runs scored.
"AfroPoP" series views climate through a Black lens with "Freedom Hill"
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Freedom Hill by filmmaker Resita Cox serves as the season finale for season 16 of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange. The film closes out the season on Monday, April 22 (Earth Day) at 8:00pm on-air on WORLD and streaming on worldchannel.org. Resita Cox's documentary Freedom Hill...
WNCT marks date of 2011 deadly tornadoes
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — April 16, 2011, is a day that many in Eastern North Carolina will never forget. Thirteen years ago Tuesday, there was an outbreak of over 30 tornadoes across North Carolina, killing 24 people statewide. Half of those tornadoes were in the eastern part of the state. Three tornadoes were long-tracked, one […]
Little lauded for work at Bertie DSS
Bertie County Department of Social Services Board Chair James Lee offered praise for DSS Director Daphine Little during the Public Comment session at a recent meeting of the Bertie County Commissioners. Lee offered an overview of Little’s tenure highlighting her accomplishments of emerging from N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) oversight due to previous missteps before she was hired, to increasing departmental professionalism. “We went through an application...
Perquimans Pirates baseball, softball teams both win
The Perquimans High School baseball team defeated the Tarboro Vikings on Wednesday, April 10, for the second time in as many nights, 14-4. Will Rucker had three hits for the Pirates. He was followed by Sean Saunders and Collin Roberts, who had two hits each. The Pirates also knocked in eight runs in the game. Saunders and Jacob Askew each had two RBIs, while Maddux Thach, Ben Brown, Rucker and Evan Conway each had one RBI. ...
Economic booster: ‘We’re getting close’ on prospects at Kingsboro
Carolinas Gateway Partnership President and CEO Bob Pike said, “We’re very close” to getting a business or an industrial prospect to locate at the Kingsboro megasite off U.S. 64 in Edgecombe County between Rocky Mount and Tarboro. “One thing about this job: You don’t want to overpromise, but you’ve got to be optimistic,” Pike said in a phone interview earlier this month. “All I can say at this point in...
Williamston Medical will move to Park Ave.
After only two months of operation Williamston Medical is moving out of the space provided by the county to a new location at 800 Park Ave. in Williamston. The move was anticipated by county officials since Dr. Dhurva Chawla had yet to sign the lease he agreed to at the January county commissioners meeting. When the Martin County Commissioners unanimously voted to approve the lease with Dr. Chawla’s Williamston Medical,...
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