Barco News

Local volunteers are ready to collect simple shoebox gifts personally packed by children, families, and individuals here in Elizabeth City and surrounding areas.

After its last public library closed in 1957, the ribbon was finally cut and the doors opened on a brand new Moyock Public Library on Wednesday afternoon.

To be updated A 20-year-old ordinance is an assortment of laws that govern planning such as zoning, highway signs, architecture and how neighborhoods are built.

More than 200 residents and history enthusiasts filed into Currituck Middle School last June for an event celebrating the 150th anniversary of the building of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal.

The three-county high-speed pursuit of a Honda Civic that ended in a one-car crash in Barco Tuesday afternoon easily could have become a tragedy, one of the officers involved in the pursuit said Friday.

Driving while impaired has been added to the list of charges against the driver of a Honda Civic that crashed on US Highway 158 in Barco Tuesday afternoon after fleeing from law enforcement officers in three counties.

Currituck County Cooperative Extension Director Rodney Sawyer recently was inducted into the inaugural class of the N.C. 4-H Hall of Fame.

Video: Life on the Coinjock Canal. Brian Clark The Virginian-Pilot Want to go? What" 150th anniversary celebration of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal When: 3 p.m. today Where: Currituck Middle School, 4263 Caratoke Hwy., Barco COINJOCK, N.C. A 147-foot-long yacht docked at the Coinjock Marina last week, one of an increasing number of ...

Harbinger Lavender Farm officially opens for the summer June 13 with an open house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where 187 Church Road, Harbinger, N.C. Info 491-2225 or www.harbingerlavender.com GOING? What Currituck Garden Tour Where Six gardens, from upper Currituck County to Point Harbor, N.C., including Harbinger Lavender Farm , will be open for the ...

The Currituck Sheriff's Office has arrested a former Sonic employee in connection with an arson at the Grandy fast-food restaurant in 2007.

Mary Katherine, 11, places an order with James Riggs at the Holly's Melting Pot display at the Agricultural Career and Awareness Fair at Camden County High School, Saturday.

The state has launched an investigation in Corolla to determine how a resident, her two dogs, and several homes were sprayed with toxic gypsy moth pesticides during a routine aerial chemical treatment recently.

The youthful participants at this week's Albemarle Area 4-H Livestock Show and Sale are keeping up with reports about the swine flu outbreak, but they're more focused on doing their best in the annual competition.