NEW YORK — Given the leather jacket and sneer Tom Petty wore on the cover of his 1976 debut, many people assumed he was one of those cheeky punks bent on tearing down the walls of rock ‘n’ roll.

He was not. It is not that Petty and his band, the Heartbreakers, did not have their…

The Enfield Performing Arts Center will host a two-day “Enfield Riot” Film Festival on Oct. 6-7 highlighting North Carolinian filmmakers in addition to independent films from directors and producers across the globe.

The festival will show eight feature films and 12 short films.

A VIP…

Edgecombe Community College is inviting the community to join the 50th anniversary celebration of the founding of the college during the first week of October.

A highlight of the week will take place at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, when the public is invited to a special lunchtime acoustic concert featuring…