Windsor News

" The long-awaited work on the U.S. 17 Bridge spanning the Cashie River in Windsor is expected to begin later this month.

Motorists using a stretch of NC 305 in Bertie County will soon find a smoother ride over this two-lane strip of asphalt.

In a memorable "Fireside Chat" President Franklin D. Roosevelt had with the American people about his federal jobs programs in 1934, he didn't cite statistics to support their value to national progress.

I had a blast from my past Tuesday night. For only about the third time in the last 20 years, I went to the Eastern North Carolina Assemblies of God camp meeting on Cooper Hill Road in Windsor.

For the first time since a shooting left three people dead at a grocery store in eastern Carolina 16 years ago, lawmen have submitted DNA evidence to be analyzed, in hopes of catching the person responsible.

" A variety of activities are planned for Saturday. The Windsor-Bertie County Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the Cashie Spring Spectacular which will be highlighted by events at the park and chamber office on York Street.

The end of their time as make-believe football players is at hand. At last, Old Dominion's athletes can believe this with no stretch of the imagination.

" No, that's exactly what the Bertie County Commissioners said Monday morning to the bids for the Council on Aging food service contract bids.

Police are on alert at a nursing home in Windsor after someone calls the assisted living center making threats.

A pair of Roanoke-Chowan area agencies are among the 27 community health centers across the state to receive money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

" Three Bertie County teachers are suspended without pay following an incident last week.

Three Bertie County teachers have been suspended without pay and a Bertie County school employee arrested in two separate incidents.

" It was a drive that Benjamin Lee Bazemore made nearly every day on his way home from work, only this time the 60-year-old Bertie County man didn't reach his residence.

" Oak City will soon be providing help to Lewiston Woodville. On Monday evening, Lewiston Woodville Fire Chief Larry Mizelle appeared before the Bertie County Commissioners asking for their approval of a mutual aid agreement between Lewiston Woodville and Oak City.

Highway improvement projects are on their way to the Roanoke-Chowan area. Annie Mobley, who holds the District 5 seat in the North Carolina House of Representative, said that Governor Bev Perdue had announced ...

" A 67-year-old Windsor man became Bertie County's first motor vehicle fatality of the year near here Sunday afternoon.

There was a need. One Economy had a desire to help meet it. Thus was the beginning of the alternative school which is housed at One Economy's community resource center in Windsor known as "The Hive." "There ...

" For the second straight day, extremely strong currents in the Roanoke River has led to the suspension of a search for a missing Williamston man.

The NC Department of Prisons has reassigned the man who was the adminstrator of Bertie Correctional Institution in Windsor.

Dive teams were in the water in Bertie County investigating a floating car. The search was in the Roanoke River where Grab Town Road dead ends about eight miles out of Windsor.