Camden News

Local officials claim Navy jet flyovers in Camden and Currituck counties are increasing, and Currituck Commissioner Gene Gregory thinks he knows why: The Navy is testing residents of the two counties' tolerance for jet noise, he says, so that it will be easier later on to choose the Hales Lake area of Camden for its proposed outlying landing field.

Robert P. Trivette has been appointed to the District Court bench to finish the unexpired term of Judge J. Carlton "J.C." Cole, who was appointed to the Superior Court bench in September.

Area farmers seem to be weathering the recession OK. Now if the ground will just dry from last week's nor'easter so they can get back in the fields and plant wheat and harvest their remaining soybeans.

Opponents of locating an Outlying Landing Field in Camden County expressed skepticism this week about the Navy's plans to conduct additional waterfowl studies at the Hales Lake site.

Flood waters had receded in most areas of the Albemarle Saturday, though a few trouble spots remained.

A number of significant public and private development projects are moving forward in Camden in spite of the recession, members of the county's first-ever economic commission were advised last week.

Residents of the Bunker Hill Road area in Camden County woke up on Friday morning to find there was no way out of their neighborhood, according to County Manager Randell Woodruff.

Several streets in Elizabeth City were flooded this morning as a November nor'easter churned over northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia.

On any given evening along Elizabeth Street in Elizabeth City a line of people forms outside of the old Elizabeth City Middle School.

George Ramsay demonstrates how a Shingle Lighter boat is maneuvered, Wednesday, Ramsay built the boat based on only two known drawings of the vessel that will be on display on the Great Dismal Swamp canal trail.

A proposed YMCA in the Maple area will cost the county $12 million and should be open no later than December 2011, if not sooner, Currituck County officials said Monday.

Efforts by state mental health officials to get to the bottom of the fiscal meltdown at Albemarle Mental Health Center - and determine if any illegal activity occurred amid the mismanagement of the agency - will have to wait at least a couple more weeks.

Area school districts pass out hundreds of report cards every year, but on Thursday, the tables were turned.

Unemployment in the Albemarle area fell slightly in September, according to figures released by the N.C. Employment Security Commission.

Camden officials should find out in the next several weeks whether the South Mills fire station project has been awarded federal grant funding.

Staff Photo by Justin FallsMoriah Mattix, 10, tries to look up and catch her breath as she competes during a pie eating competition during the first ever downtown Fall Festival in the RBC Centura parking lot on the corner of Water Street and Main Street, Saturday.

A final defense spending bill likely to be signed by President Obama won't contain provisions blocking a Navy landing field from area counties or requiring host counties to sign off on the airfield.

D.G. Martin "It is like you picked up the entire population of the state of South Carolina and moved them into North Carolina" This is the way Ferrel Guillory, director of UNC-Chapel Hill's Program on Public Life, begins to talk about the impact of population growth in North Carolina since he moved here in 1972.

The regional public health agency has run out of the vaccine used to help adults fight seasonal flu and won't be getting any more this season, a health official said Friday.

Author and professor Kate Willink is the ultimate Yankee: raised in New York City.