Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Council delays decision on city manager

January 22, 2019

The Rocky Mount City Council made no decision in a meeting on Martin Luther King Day to discuss the future of its top administrator.

City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney, who wasn't at the meeting, faces mounting allegations of cronyism and financial mismanagement similar to accusations leveled…

Residents pack chambers for meeting

January 22, 2019

A packed house at a special called meeting Monday went home with no answer as to the fate of an under-fire city official.

The Rocky Mount City Council announced no public decision after meeting two-and-a-half hours in closed session discussing the employment of City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney.…

Unity breakfast shines light on current issues

January 22, 2019

The keynote speaker at the annual Rocky Mount Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast used the podium to take a different approach to honoring the slain civil rights leader.

Instead of focusing on more notable aspects of King's legacy, such as federal civil and voting rights laws, N.C. Justice…

Insurance agent opens new office

January 21, 2019

Takyla W. Smith said being an insurance agent is like being a doctor in needing to have a good bedside manner.

"You know, people do business with people who they like," Smith said. "So they have to like you and trust you."

Smith, 36, after having worked approximately 12½ years for MSH…

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Pregnancy center to host annual fundraising banquet

January 22, 2019

Your Choice Pregnancy Resource Center Board of Directors will welcome Mike Sharrow as the 2019 Celebrate Life Banquet keynote speaker.

Sharrow is CEO and president of the C12 group, which is the nation’s largest network of Christian CEO’s, business owners and executives. The Celebrate…

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Exhibit will let kids be astronauts

January 21, 2019

The Children’s Museum & Science Center at the Imperial Centre for the Arts & Sciences will allow kids to have a hands-on learning experience upon their first visit of the year.

Be the Astronaut is an interactive learning exhibit that teaches STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering,…

ECC celebrates student ambassadors

January 21, 2019

When Maxine Hurdle lost her job in the mid-1990s after more than 16 years at the former Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Co., she decided to return to school to start a second career.

She chose the Human Services Technology curriculum at Edgecombe Community College, receiving financial assistance…

Farmers attend leadership institute

January 20, 2019

AgCarolina Farm Credit recently announced that 21 young, beginning and small farmers took part in the Ag Leadership Institute in Raleigh.

The Ag Leadership Institute features a wide range of speakers discussing many factors contributing to the success of a farming operation.

“Offering…

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No. 11 North Carolina shoots way past No. 10 Virginia Tech

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January 21, 2019

CHAPEL HILL — There would be only one way out of the slump and there would be no timid option. North Carolina would have to keep shooting.

The No. 11-ranked Tar Heels kept firing 3s, and would soon find their range from beyond the arc, wearing down a No. 10 Virginia Tech team that eventually…

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Lack of touches for Gurley in NFC title game left some confused

January 21, 2019

The Los Angeles Rams beat the New Orleans Saints on Sunday, 26-23 in overtime, to advance to the Super Bowl for the first time since the 2001-02 season.

As Tarboro football’s Twitter account pointed out after the result, Rams running back Todd Gurley will be the second Viking to play on the…

Gryphons, Knights set to square off Tuesday

January 21, 2019

Northern Nash against Rocky Mount High in basketball, “the best matchup east of i-95,” as Northern Nash coach Henry Drake called it before a meeting last year, is set for another installment on Tuesday night.

This matchup, the second of three on the season for the boys’…

Super Bowl: Pats vs Rams in a meeting of Past vs Future

January 20, 2019

It all began in 2002, back when the Rams were in St. Louis and the Patriots were a plucky underdog standing in the way of a potential dynasty.

So much has changed.

This hasn’t: Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.

The duo, every bit as formidable now as when they won that first title, face the Rams,…

Colin Campbell: Help rural communities by visiting them

January 22, 2019

For those of us who don't often get outside the cities — or very far beyond our own towns — North Carolina geography can be confusing.

Franklinton is in Franklin County, but the town of Franklin sits 300 miles…

Letter to the Editor: Abortion should unite, not divide, us

January 20, 2019

Abortion is one of those issues that divides us into our respective corners along with like-minded folks on the political spectrum, glaring at those who dare to hold a different view.

I, for one, am an avid “pro-…

Letter to the Editor: Strandberg will be missed

January 19, 2019

We lost a good one last week.

Betsy B. Strandberg was a pioneer. She was president of this, and the chairman of that — and she was the first woman to hold those positions. She was a strong person, and she had…