Massey Toyota is once again the Hole-In-One sponsor of the Lenoir Community College Foundation Golf Classic set for Thursday at the Kinston Country Club, offering each golfer a chance to drive home a brand-new car. This event has raised more than $600,000 toward student scholarships at LCC since its inception, and Massey Toyota has been a supporter for the past several years. More than 130 golfers played in the tournament last year, and the Foundation is expecting an even better attendance this year. ...

A 15-year-old freshman from J.H. Rose High School was killed Wednesday when the car she was in was hit from behind by a delivery truck on N.C. 11, authorities confirmed. Caroline Lupton was one of three people in the car hit near Central Park Drive in the area of the Sam's Club, the Winterville Police Department and Pitt County Schools reported. Winterville's interim police Chief Chris Williams said officers were...

With the state playoffs looming, the Farmville Central girls’ soccer team capped the regular season with a 7-0 thrashing of SouthWest Edgecombe in a midweek Eastern Plains Conference match. The victory gave the Jaguars (9-2-1 overall) a 7-2-1 finish in league play, good enough to claim second place behind conference champion Washington. North Pitt landed third at 7-3. Farmville got two goals and four assists from sophomore Madison Denham, two...

The No. 6 East Carolina baseball team began a three-game series with Tulane on Friday. The American Athletic Conference series is the final conference road series of the regular season. The Pirates entered the weekend with a three-game lead in the AAC, and with two weekends remaining, they are nearing the end of their chase for a fifth consecutive AAC regular season title. The Pirates (37-10, 16-5 AAC) lead UTSA...

East Carolina University’s College of Nursing will have Service League Scholars beginning in the 2024-25 academic year thanks to a $1 million gift from the Service League of Greenville. Service League Scholars will earn full tuition and fees for the academic year in which they receive the award. Two scholars will be named in the inaugural year. “The Service League’s investment in Pirate nurses will make a meaningful impact on...

Winterville rolled out its new Safe Roads to School program this week with “Walk and Roll to School Day” at W.H. Robinson Elementary and A.G. Cox Middle schools. Wednesday’s event drew dozens of students who arrived at school via “walking school buses” or “biking trains” chaperoned by parents. Winterville Safe Routes to School Coordinator Katherine Dale told the Pitt County Board of Education on Monday that the town received a $200,000 grant designed to promote healthy habits by giving local elementary and middle school students...

A Farmville man was arrested after a month-long investigation into drug sales, the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office reported. A news release from the agency said that on May 2, detectives with its Special Operations Unit and Gang and Guns Crime Unit conducted a traffic stop on Askew Road in Greenville. A search was conducted on the vehicle where officers located narcotics and cash. Solomon Ferreria Alves, 32, of Farmville was...

As a pharmacist, I have seen firsthand the impact today’s big pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have on patients they claim to serve. Most patients don’t realize that PBMs control the price you pay at the pharmacy counter. While PBMs promote health plan cost savings to businesses for their employees, their records often tell a different story. Thankfully, in Raleigh and in Washington, lawmakers are finally waking up to the role PBMs play in drug pricing. ...

Voters beware, Donald Trump is running against history. Several time-honored reforms and institutions came into being through the demands of history and are unlike entities created through political processes rooted in the sentiments and majorities of current moments in time. “Its time has come,” is the operative phrase so applicable to such special entities and laws. The West Point phrase, “Intuitively obvious to the casual observer,” is even more definitive. ...

DEAR ABBY: I am the 18-year-old daughter (and third child) of parents who are going through a divorce after being together for 36 years. I need your insight on this because I am unsure. My father has always craved physical love and affection, whereas my mom is more like a cat who prefers separation and independence. Even with these differences, things used to be good between them. That was until Mom decided she wanted to stop having sex due to her age and no longer...

Pitt County’s proposed 2024-25 budget gives public schools $4 million less than what the district requested, but it includes money to raise the local teacher pay supplement and funds school nurses, social workers and IT staff. Pitt County Schools Superintendent Ethan Lenker and his senior administrators reviewed the system’s requests during the second day of the Pitt County Board of Commissioners’ budget workshop on Wednesday. Pitt Community College President Lawrence Rouse also presented his school’s budget requests. Lenker and Rouse are both retiring this summer. ...

ECU’s Miller School of Entrepreneurship and Churches Outreach Network have teamed up again this year to offer a free, week-long summer camp for high school students where they can learn about starting and operating their own businesses. The second annual Summer Innovation Academy will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., July 8-12, at the Isley Innovation Hub on ECU's campus. Friday’s session will be extended to allow students an opportunity to showcase their projects. Camp activities, led by ECU instructor Corey Pulido, will include recognizing a business opportunity, developing a business model and pitching an idea to potential investors. The registration deadline is June 8 and space is limited. Apply by visiting youtheb2022.org/application-youth-business. For more information, contact Rodney Coles at rodneycon2007@gmail.com or 717-9600.

The Women for Women of Pitt County Endowment has awarded $103,000 in grants it says are for programs that improve the lives of women and girls locally. “Local nonprofits are the backbone of our communities, just as women and girls are the heart of the family,” said Devinder Culver, Women for Women of Pitt County Endowment committee member. “The impacts of the gifts from the Endowment are immeasurable as they are truly investments in building healthy, safe communities. ...

The Pitt County Arboretum is still seeking help to create a new visual identity through an updated logo. It is accepting submissions through Wednesday and will offer a $500 cash prize to the person who submits the winning design. The arboretum is a public garden at the Government Circle office complex in Greenville that opened to the public in 2002. It is primarily designed and maintained by Extension Master Gardener...

Taylor Woodring got the East Carolina softball team started on Thursday against North Texas, but the Pirates couldn’t muster much more than a start. After the ECU offense strung together hits and runs in the first round, it couldn’t replicate that outing in a 9-1 loss in six innings to North Texas in the second round of the American Athletic Conference tournament. The Mean Green advanced to Friday’s semifinal round...

A 15-year-old freshman from J.H. Rose High School was killed Wednesday when the car she was in was hit from behind by a delivery truck on N.C. 11, authorities confirmed. Caroline Lupton was one of three people in the car hit near Central Park Drive in the area of the Sam's Club, the Winterville Police Department and Pitt County Schools reported. Winterville's interim police Chief Chris Williams said officers were...

A chance to help a local coach and to raise awareness about the importance of organ donation is coming on Saturday in Winterville. An event called A Kidney for Coach aims to help identify a potential kidney donor for former D.H. Conley and North Pitt girls’ basketball coach William Knight, but it also is designed to provide information about organ donation and insight from medical professionals. Knight previously received a transplant and is now in need of another. He recently stepped down from his post as Conley coach to address his health needs. Knight and others will host the event from 10 a.m. to noon at The Biscuit and the Bean Cafe at 168 Beacon Drive in Winterville. The information and awareness event is free to the public.

Greenville United kicked back into gear on Wednesday night with its first friendly match of the new year. The Bucks played host to Salem City FC and played to a 1-1 draw at John Paul II. It was the first match in a busy week for the club that culminates on Saturday night with a charity match at home against Hickory FC. ...

Local high school baseball and softball teams went a collective 9-for-11 in Tuesday’s opening round of the NCHSAA playoffs. All six baseball teams and three softball teams advanced to Friday night’s second round, where five of those teams will be at home once again. Also cashing in a postseason win on Tuesday and remaining home for the second round was the John Paul II baseball team in the opening round...