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News

Bertie incumbents, one ‘newcomer’ win

WINDSOR – With less than 30 percent of the county’s registered voters (28.54 percent, or 3,994 out of 13,993) participating, either by absentee ballot, one-stop ... Read more

by Gene Motley, Thursday, May 10, 2018 10:33 am

News

Bertie town celebrates

POWELLSVILLE – This was not a bad way to celebrate your 18th birthday. Under sunny skies and warm almost-summerlike temperatures, the 18th annual Powellsville Community ... Read more

by Gene Motley, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 10:20 am

Lewiston-Woodville

Seeing and believing

LEWISTON-WOODVILLE – On a whirlwind tour of three eastern North Carolina counties, Bertie, Perquimans, and Pasquotank, primarily to visit their various Arts Councils North Carolina’s ... Read more

by Gene Motley, Monday, May 7, 2018 9:59 am

Columns

Hoist the colors: ECU athletics looks back on track

Hovering around the Top-10 in the college baseball polls have made these heady times in Greenville for East Carolina baseball fans. While I have yet ... Read more

by Gene Motley, Monday, May 7, 2018 9:49 am

News

Significant strides

Bertie group to work on reduction of county’s poverty level Read more

by Gene Motley, Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:56 am

Hertford

Lady Bears get (another) historic win

HCHS edges Bertie for their first-ever softball victory over the rivals in fast-pitch era Read more

by Gene Motley, Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:13 am

Ridgecroft

Rams dethrone Warriors

AHOSKIE – For the first time in 21 years, there is a new regular-season baseball champ in the Tarheel Independent Conference. Lawrence Academy’s two decade-long ... Read more

by Gene Motley, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 10:07 am

Lawrence

Warriors capture TIC regular crown

AHOSKIE – First-year Lawrence Academy softball coach Blair Whitehead says she was nervous heading into her inaugural season at the helm of one of the ... Read more

by Gene Motley, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 10:07 am

Ahoskie

New Headmaster

AHOSKIE – You can’t say Melvin Hawkins doesn’t like to stay busy with his career in education. The former superintendent of the Camden County Schools ... Read more

by Gene Motley, Monday, April 30, 2018 10:32 am

Columns

Welcome back, Matt…it was a short ‘retirement’

Matt Kenseth is officially back in NASCAR. A year ago he was tearing up the track; boasting a win at Phoenix, two poles, and 18 ... Read more

by Gene Motley, Monday, April 30, 2018 10:28 am

News

Middle School lockdown

WINDSOR – At the March meeting of the Bertie County Commissioners, Sheriff John Holley vowed to get tough on false and phony threats telephoned into ... Read more

by Gene Motley, Thursday, April 26, 2018 2:53 pm

News

Back in the ‘bullring’

WINDSOR – Norman Cherry, a former Bertie County Schools educator and administrator, beat out three other candidates to succeed the late Barry McGlone as the ... Read more

by Gene Motley, Tuesday, April 24, 2018 10:11 am

Ahoskie

Sign o’ the times

AHOSKIE – Sign, sign, everywhere a sign. Small but legible placard signs dot the landscape around Ahoskie Creek Park after several former entrances were barricaded ... Read more

by Gene Motley, Monday, April 23, 2018 9:52 am

Columns

Hated to love him, loved to hate him

Another ACC basketball icon has made his way to glory, and this time when God looks down the bench he won’t see someone with a ... Read more

by Gene Motley, Monday, April 23, 2018 9:46 am

BREAKING NEWS

Disqualified

WINDSOR – In a 3-1 vote here late Tuesday afternoon, the Bertie County Board of Elections voted to uphold a petition filed by two Bertie ... Read more

by Gene Motley, Thursday, April 19, 2018 10:05 am

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