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County signs off on recommended salary for new elections director
All but one Pasquotank commissioner voted to support the Board of Elections’ recommended salary for the county’s new elections director on Monday. The commissioners voted 6-1 to pay Janae Hedgepeth a salary of $65,813, plus an additional $2,500 reimbursable moving expense during Monday’s Board of Commissioners’ meeting. Commissioner Sean Lavin, who represents the county’s Northern Outside district, cast the lone no vote. Lavin objected after voicing concerns over Hedgepeth’s experience...
Currituck adopts 4-pronged plan for fighting opioid abuse
CURRITUCK — Currituck will hire a full-time treatment services coordinator and appoint a post-overdose response team as part of its overall strategy for combating opioid abuse in the county. The Board of Commissioners approved a four-pronged plan on Monday to address opioid abuse that spends $160,000 in national opioid settlement monies provided by the state, according to a county press release. The biggest chunk of those funds — $100,000 —...
How Clint 'Scrap Iron' Courtney got his nickname
It had to be the wackiest footrace in history. It pitted a ballplayer against a sportswriter, and it was instigated by the legendary pitcher Satchel Paige. To set the stage, the race was run over the impossibly rough terrain of the little railroad station in Colton, California, the night the St. Louis Browns were breaking training camp in 1952. It was run in almost total darkness by two nearsighted bespectacled contestants, each in street clothes and regular shoes. The team was waiting for a special...
Litter of five endangered red wolves dies after sire killed
Editor’s note: This story is being republished with permission from CoastalReview.org The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has confirmed that a litter of five endangered red wolf pups has died after their father was killed by a vehicle on U.S. Highway 64, leaving fewer than 20 of their species remaining in the wild. The pups were the offspring of a 2-year-old female red wolf named Chance, otherwise designated 2413F, and...
Letter: 'Twilight Zone' episode featuring 'Anthony' probably explains Trumpism best
Our COVID-19 lockdowns had an eerie “Twilight Zone” feel to them. Now, I’m leaning into the 1959-64 TV series to explain another modern phenomenon: Trumpism. I’ve wondered how to explain Trumpism to people like my parents who died long before Donald Trump’s rise to the White House. Explaining to the uninitiated would have once been challenging. Today, I’d simply direct them to “It’s A Good Life,” a 1961 “Twilight Zone”...
Hinton: ECSU should have seat on airport authority
Elizabeth City State University’s aviation science program has grown so much at the airport that ECSU needs its own seat on the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Airport Authority, says Scott Hinton. “Their presence has grown so significantly out there that we think they need a permanent seat at the table,” said Hinton, who is the airport’s director. Hinton provided Pasquotank County commissioners an update on activities at the airport at the board’s...
Cynthia Tucker: Immigrants prove more boon than burden
JD Vance is still drawing fire — appropriately so — for his misogynous comments about “childless cat ladies.” When Taylor Swift announced her endorsement of Kamala Harris on Instagram, she signed it with the phrase that he had hung around his own neck: “childless cat lady.” But beneath the cruelty and casual sexism trafficked by Vance is a substantive concern: the reproductive rate in the United States — indeed, throughout the wealthier countries — has dropped below replacement levels. In other words, more Americans are...
Kathryn Jean Lopez: Marching for life
The human-rights issue of our lives is abortion. Clearly not everyone sees it that way. It's buried in euphemisms about women's health. But unborn children still die. The March for Life happens every January, marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court case which legalized abortion in all three trimesters, which was overturned in 2022. The march doesn't typically get a lot of media coverage. For years, the attention it did...
Froma Harrop: Crazy talk, crazy people and guns everywhere
One evening, just over a week ago, I was walking in Midtown Manhattan when dozens of police cars, sirens blasting, lights flashing, descended on the area. Cops cut off entire avenues to traffic. Soon a phalanx of police vehicles, followed by a column of identical black SUVs, whooshed past red lights. They were taking former president Donald Trump to his home at Trump Tower. The New York Police Department was clearly determined not to let anything happen to him on their watch, certainly not after...
John Farkas: State building code council must include architects
I am writing to express my profound disappointment in the North Carolina General Assembly’s recent override of Governor Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 1661 this month, a decision that will have far-reaching implications for our state’s building safety. This bill removes architects from the State Building Code Council, along with other critical members such as active fire service professionals, coastal experts and local government officials. Locally, state Sen. Kandie Smith...
Star Parker: Taking from Peter to give to Paul is not America
A newspaper story several years ago reported about an elementary school teacher who held elections in his class. The students picked their candidates — one little boy competing against one little girl. The little boy stood up before the class and shared his ideas for changes that would improve their lives. The little girl stood up and promised that everyone who voted for her would get ice cream. The little...
EC woman dies after traffic collision on Pitts Chapel Road
An Elizabeth City woman died following a traffic collision on Pitts Chapel Road in Pasquotank County on Sunday. Trooper O.E. Calloway of the N.C. Highway Patrol identified the deceased woman as Patricia Dooley, 87, of the 900 block of Bateman Drive. According to Calloway, Dooley was driving her 2017 Buick Encore east on Perkins Lane around 11:06 a.m. when she failed to yield the right of way and made a...
USCG Base EC has been operating under boil water notice since July
The local U.S. Coast Guard base has been operating under a boil water notice for the last several months. Cmdr. Heidi Koski, commanding officer of Base Elizabeth City, said last week that “due to low chlorine levels” the base has been under a precautionary boil water notice since July 9. “We are actively managing the situation, and we’ve been engaged with municipal water authorities to address the problem,” Koski said...
New Sentara medical office building 45% occupied
The Medical Office Building on the new Sentara Albemarle Regional Health Campus in Elizabeth City is about 45% occupied by partnering medical practices. That’s according to Beth Delaney, SAMC plant engineer and operations director, who, along with Teresa Watson, SAMC’s president, provided an update on Sentara Health’s new hospital campus in Elizabeth City to the Elizabeth City Rotary Club on Monday. The new $200 million medical campus is being built...
Edenton council asked about Hayes annexation, golf cart rules
EDENTON — Residents asked about the town’s annexation of the Hayes Plantation property and the possibility of new restrictions on golf carts driven on town streets at last week’s Edenton Town Council meeting. During the public comments portion of the Sept. 10 meeting, Hal Murray asked Town Council to provide the public information about the annexation of the Hayes Plantation property. According to documents Murray supplied during the meeting, state...
Letter: Get involved in helping end food insecurity during Hunger Action Month
September is Hunger Action Month. Food Bank of the Albemarle serves 15 counties in Northeast North Carolina to address food insecurity. Food insecurity has increased in the region from 36,000 to 43,630 people, which is 14.7% of the population. For children, the number is even higher: 23% of children face hunger: that is one in four children. Nine years ago, Tammy Sawyer, director of communications and marketing at College of The Albemarle, started the ECP Backpack Buddies initiative that partners with the Food Bank to...
John Hood: NC campuses rank high on speech
As recently as 2015, nearly 60% of Americans told Gallup that they had “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in U.S. colleges and universities as a whole. Today, just 36% of respondents agree — not much different from the shares who say they have only “some” confidence (32%) and very little or none (32%). And while respect for higher education has plummeted among Republicans, there have also been double-digit drops in confidence among independents and Democrats. ...
Tom Campbell: Lawsuits may be examples of election interference
Despite the ruling by North Carolina’s Supreme Court to the contrary, most North Carolinians believe we are entitled to free and fair elections. They oppose any attempts to interfere with peoples’ right to vote or the accurate counting of those votes. Sadly, there are some willing to undermine our confidence in our election systems and interfere with election outcomes. Two recent North Carolina examples cause us raise our eyebrows. The first involves whether or not Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should have his name included on...
Rob Schofield: GOP legislators doubling down on fear, prejudice
North Carolina Republicans have clearly been struggling of late. Between the national surge of energy and support that the rise of the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket has provided to Democrats and many independents, and the steady drumbeat of foul-ups and bad news that continues to surround their gubernatorial nominee, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the GOP is in obvious need of a political pick-me-up — something to stop the bleeding and help rouse the conservative base. And so it is that the state legislature returned to...
Froma Harrop: Gas prices could actually help Harris
Americans focused on inflation seem especially tuned into the price of gasoline. While inflation has been fading away, many prices remain higher than they were two years ago. But not for gasoline. That’s getting cheaper. The average price at the pump is now about $3.26, which is down $1.73 from the high in June 2022. MAGA will note that it was only $2 a gallon when Donald Trump was in...
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