Atkinson News

Submitted by WWAY on 17 June 2009 - 10:45am. READ MORE: Atkinson voters cast their ballots on a $750,000 bond referendum Tuesday night.

June Atkinson, North Carolina's Superintendent of Public Instruction, will speak to Charlotte's Uptown Democratic Forum Wednesday at noon.

Each month the Wilson County Board of Education releases its personnel list, which shows employees who have been hired or resigned from the system during the past month.

Published: Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Colon Corbett knew about hard work and how to make do with little, growing up during the Great Depression, being the son of a sharecropper and working in the tobacco fields behind a mule.

One of the eight suspects arrested for allegedly being involved in the bank robbery at the BB&T branch in Elm City on Dec.

Carlene Atkinson is out of jail but she's not allowed to drive. The Lake Wylie, S.C., woman is facing trial on three counts of murder in connection with a fatal wreck on N.C. 49 and had been jailed on $900,000 bond.

I must be on the "awesome" beat. My editors at the StarNews keep assigning me the craziest stories.

Alyse Player leads a performance by the L.J. Bell Chorus during a volunteer appreciation luncheon Friday that featured a keynote speech from North Carolina State Superintendent of Schools Dr.

Rep. Bruce Goforth, D-Buncombe County, says he believes school officials who take indecent liberties with students should be placed on the sex offender registry, despite the student's age.

Submitted by WWAY on 6 May 2009 - 11:18am. READ MORE: It is a slightly overcast morning in the small Pender County town of Atkinson; almost a kind of dreariness that seems to fit in well with the principal theme of Provinces of Night.

Submitted by WWAY on 27 April 2009 - 10:24am. Pender County residents proud of their family tree There is a new title holder in Pender County .

Published: Friday, April 24, 2009 at 12:25 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, April 24, 2009 at 12:25 p.m. The white clapboard house in downtown Atkinson smelled like cigarettes and collard greens.

Published: Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 12:31 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 12:31 p.m. Animal officials in New Hanover and Pender counties have received more reports of rabid animals attacking pet dogs in the area.

Deadline for posters is 5 p.m. - The Democratic Women of Rowan County breakfast meeting, First Baptist Church, 223 N. Fulton St., May 2. Guest speaker: June St.

A North Carolina writer has chosen another familiar geographic setting to stage her third mystery novel about investigator Logan Hunter.

Published: Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 1:58 p.m. Harley Catherine Phillips and Dr.

The legislature and governors have stripped the state's top elected education official of authority over the years.

HEADLINES: _ Atkinson asks NC lawmakers to resolve leadership confusion in public schools _ All NC judges could preside at marriages in bill clearing NC Senate _ Golf cart restrictions could be applied in all cities, counties in bill clearing House _ Accident reports would require cell phone information in bill given tentative Senate OK THE BRIEF: ...

When it comes to the hot button issue of electric rates, Elizabeth City Mayor Steve Atkinson says he's watching out for citizens as a member of the board that governs the city's wholesale supplier of ...

Ahem. Make that: Proceed apace, Dr. June Atkinson, state superintendent of public instruction.