Albemarle News

Chris Palestrant, the piano player for the Uphill blues band, smiles while he and his band mates perform at Elizabeth City's July 4 celebration at Waterfront Park, Saturday afternoon.

Megan Kelly and Christy Abernethy cut a board for the platform. Youth missionaries from the Carolina Cross Connection campers based out of Joshua Youth camp in Albemarle.

Charlotte City Council member Nancy Carter has called a community meeting for her district tonight.

RALEIGH a ' The N.C. Department of Transportation will soon be putting American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to work to improve roads in Rowan and nearby counties.

The beautiful Kellie Pickler has struggled with her dumb blonde image since making her musical debut on season five of American Idol.

Watercolor paintings by two members of the Perquimans Arts League will be on exhibit at the Sound Links Restaurant in Albemarle Plantation during July.

The family of Sadie Kellock poses outside her Peachland home with the group of Carolina Cross Connection campers and volunteers who performed home repairs free of charge last week.

Arts of the Albemarle's annual show, Splash, is up and running and features artists Bob Rankin and Margie Sawyer.

The Albemarle Hospital Foundation has been awarded a $60,000 grant to help uninsured and low-income citizens in Camden and Pasquotank counties receive the medications they need.

Loading... 1 of 5 Left to right: Cowon Stallings, Felisha Riddick, Julian Jenkins and Jessica Jenkins wait for a oeThe Lost Weekenda to begin at the film festival held at Marinersa Wharf Park.

By default, the small general aviation airports that dot the landscape are often the most poorly represented in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Sharon Meade , Outer Banks Curator for the NC Wildlife Resources Commission, shows her father Shelton Alexander the workings of a model tugboat built by Oscar Roberts of Aydlett during the event celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal at Currituck Middle School, Sunday.

The driver of a motor scooter was injured in a two-vehicle accident Saturday night at the intersection of U.S. Highway 17 North and U.S. Highway 158 at Morgans Corner, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol.

StaffMasters will host a job fair Monday in Albemarle for machinists, forklift operators and truss builders.

Gray Stone Day School held its fifth graduation ceremony on June 5 at Pfeiffer University's Misenheimer campus.

Unemployment rates dropped in 83 of North Carolina's 100 counties in April, including the five counties in the Albemarle region, according to the state's Employment Security Commission.

The downtown Elizabeth City cafe Rachel's Place was within two days of closing when local businesswoman Sallie Stimatz stepped in.

The Food Bank of the Albemarle is again offering northeastern North Carolina residents the opportunity to help feed the hungry while treating themselves to a restaurant meal.

Forecasters have issued a flash flood watch for counties across central North Carolina and said to expect heavy rain through Friday across most of the state.

Elizabeth City, NC- Northeast North Carolina business travelers now have an affordable alternative to charter air service, thanks to a NCFlyPorts program available at the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Regional Airport and other airports throughout the state.