Perquimans County News

The soulful sounds of Maria Muldaur, the childhood glee of "Tom Sawyer" and the faithful message of The Faithway Doves provide plenty of opportunity for inspiration in River City this weekend.

" Hertford County is close to striking a deal that will privatize Child Support Enforcement.

As the Maguire Theater at Arts of the Albemarle's Center nears one year since it first opened - it was March 27, 2009 - the region's premier spot for live, stage entertainment is building its reputation and the offerings of music and theater are growing.

Erskine Morgan filed last week as a candidate for the Outside City seat on the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Board of Education.

Due to icy road conditions, schools in the Perquimans County and Elizabeth City-Pasquotank school districts will operate on a two-hour delay Tuesday, Feb.

The prospect of a million-dollar shortfall has Pasquotank County and Elizabeth City officials bracing for an especially tough budgeting season this spring.

Just nine counties in North Carolina saw a drop in unemployment. The two with the biggest drop are here in Eastern Carolina.

If you want to butcher your grocery bill during these lean economic times, Doug Layden is ready to show you how.

A 12-year veteran of the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Board of Education has announced that he doesn't plan to seek a fourth term.

Inmates are now being transported by the new regional jail's transportation team instead of local county deputies.

During a celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., hosted by the Perquimans County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the Bagley Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Winfall Monday, Jan.

Delivering a criminal warrant can be time-consuming. Pasquotank County Sheriff's deputies have to type up the warrant, mail it to other counties in the state and rely on calls from other counties when the wanted person is located.

Area voters will spot many familiar names - and a few new ones - on the ballot this spring when they go to the polls for the May primaries.

To the untrained eye, it didn't look like anything special - just a handful of North Carolina superintendents posing for a photo as attendees of the school board association's fall conference looked on.

Kendall Spaugh sits contentedly in a classroom at Perquimans County High School.

"You don't really think. You're so mad at the time that you're adrenaline is just going and you just go." On Friday night, Michelle White's adrenaline landed her in a high speed chase through the streets of Elizabeth city on the tail of a purse snatcher.

A Nixonton woman who chased a purse-snatcher on foot and then from behind the wheel of her car hasn't given up on finding the thief and recovering items taken from her.

He doesn't have stories from previous international adventures, can't give a detailed description of a European landscape, and at the moment, doesn't even own a passport.

A large illegal mushroom growing operation has been discovered in northeastern North Carolina.

Two Perquimans County men are facing a host of drug charges following what one official said may be one of the largest seizures ever in North Carolina of illegal psychedelic mushrooms.