The North Carolina Potato Festival — downtown Elizabeth City's signature event — is less than a month away, and it's poised to once again offer a jam-packed weekend of family fun.
Potato Festival to offer three days of rides, tunes, food, fun/News/2019/04/22/Potato-Festival-to-offer-three-days-of-rides-food-fun.html1
A panel established to encourage excellence in the Elizabeth City State University Education Department plans a thoroughgoing assessment of the university’s teacher education program.
Education working group begins its work at ECSU/News/2019/04/22/Education-working-group-meets-at-ECSU.html1
Next weekend, Jeffery Hall — the self-named “E City Runner” — hopes to both complete his first marathon and raise at least $1,000 in the fight against childhood cancer and pediatric diseases.
E City Runner hopes to help in childhood cancer fight/News/2019/04/22/E-City-Runner-hopes-to-promote-EC-fight.html1
A new agriculture report shows most Albemarle counties experienced declines in soybean and corn sales that mirrored declines statewide from 2012 to 2017.
Potato Festival to offer three days of rides, tunes, food, fun/News/2019/04/22/Potato-Festival-to-offer-three-days-of-rides-food-fun.html7
April 22, 2019
The North Carolina Potato Festival — downtown Elizabeth City's signature event — is less than a month away, and it's poised to once again offer a jam-packed weekend of family fun.
YMCA officials last week cited what’s happening in South Boston, Virginia, as an example of the kind of community support they hope to garner in Elizabeth City for the YMCA at the Pines.
YMCA cites Va. example in pitch for community support/News/2019/04/22/YMCA-cites-Va-example-in-pitch-for-community-support.html3
Pasquotank County commissioners have agreed to revisit a proposed ban on hunters allowing their dogs to roam on private property without written permission from the landowner.
Pasquotank to reconsider written permission for dog roaming/News/2019/04/22/Pasquotank-to-reconsider-written-permission-for-dog-roaming.html3
A panel established to encourage excellence in the Elizabeth City State University Education Department plans a thoroughgoing assessment of the university’s teacher education program.
Education working group begins its work at ECSU/News/2019/04/22/Education-working-group-meets-at-ECSU.html3
HERTFORD — The Perquimans baseball team connected on a pair of home runs as the Pirates defeated Camden 12-2 in five innings in the opening game of the Albemarle Easter Tournament Saturday afternoon at Perquimans County High School.
Baseball | Pirates, Bruins hit homers in wins/Sports/2019/04/21/Pirates-Bruins-hit-homers-in-wins.html3
EDENTON — Camden softball’s offense was not its typical explosive self in Saturday afternoon’s Albemarle Easter tournament game against the Pamlico Lady Hurricanes.
Softball | Camden holds on; John A. Holmes cruises for Easter tournament wins/Sports/2019/04/21/Softball-PQ-stunned-by-Bertie-NSA-cruises-to-Easter-tournament-title-game.html3
BARCO — Currituck's McKenna Sweeney and Shiloh Willingham, and Elizabeth City's Zoe Pureza were among the winners at the first annual Bob Kohler Classic, a USTA Jr. tennis tournament played at Currituck County High School Saturday, April 13.
The tournament was co-sponsored…
Currituck hosts Bob Kohler Classic/Sports/2019/04/21/Currituck-hosts-Bob-Kohler-Classic.html3
Traffic jitters at downtown pedestrian crossing/Lifestyles-Columnists/2019/04/21/Safety-actions-needed-at-downtown-pedestrian-crossing.html7
April 21, 2019
Later this summer The Daily Advance will be moving to a different part of town, making way for what is expected to become a new city-county senior center. There's a lot we'll miss not being on the corner of Water and Church. One thing I won't miss is the elevation in my anxiety level that comes…
With the opioid epidemic continuing to inflict a heavy toll on communities across the region, organizers are hoping for a strong turnout at next month’s third annual Mayday Mayday Stop Addiction Now Festival.
The festival, which provides education about substance abuse disorders as a way to…
Mayday Mayday festival aims to highlight, curb addiction/Lifestyles/2019/04/21/Mayday-Mayday-festival-aims-to-highlight-curb-addiction.html3
There may be more than one way to skin a cat, but how many ways are there to defeather a fowl?
Until the 1890s, the most popular method was to remove feathers from a bird was by hand. As you may imagine, hand-plucking feathers from a bird is a laborious and time-consuming task. By the turn of the…
Industrial revolution also yielded the chicken-plucker/Lifestyles-Columnists/2019/04/21/Albemarle-Column-April-21.html3
Unfortunately, our Supreme Leader, President Donald Trump, has brainwashed a lot of people into believing every lie, denial and exaggeration he tells every hour of every day.
What are we willing to give up to keep Trump happy?/Letters/2019/04/21/041919gilllet.html3
