Bath News

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 7:06 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 7:06 p.m. Exactly 111 years after the fact, a new book about the 1898 Wilmington race riot will be unveiled Tuesday night at the Cape Fear Museum.

Even one of history's mostnotorious pirates was more welcome here than formerRaleigh developer John Baldwin.

Authorities in the east have made a major drug arrest. On Friday the Beaufort County Sheriffs Office arrested 38 year old Christopher Jarvis and 36 year old Jennifer Jarvis of Elliott Road in Bath for trafficking in marijuana as well as manufacturing marijuana.

Here's a good one for those of you out there with a sweet tooth and a flair for retro items.

A developer's proposal to expand a marina in North Carolina's oldest town has stirred up a decades-long debate about whether there should be growth there.

A developer's proposal to expand a marina in North Carolina's oldest town has stirred up a decades-long debate about whether there should be growth there.

A developer's proposal to expand a marina in North Carolina's oldest town has stirred up a decades-long debate about whether there should be growth there.

Seeking serenity? Needing tranquillity? Consider these six places in the Carolinas: BATH, N.C. Bath, tucked onto an estuary of Pamlico Sound, has always been small - the village never grew larger than 300 residents and still exists largely within the boundaries marked by colonial surveyors.

In a pirate-worthy broadside on conventional history, a Raleigh , N.C., author claims that Blackbeard and many of his henchmen weren't rogue Englishmen, but sons of North Carolina landowners.

A Raleigh author is attempting to reopen the 274-year-old estate of a Beaufort County man he thinks was once a member of Blackbeard's pirate crew -- and whose bones may be stored in a box in Raleigh.

Blackbeard knew how to make a splash. Foremost among pirates of his time, Blackbeard would put sparklers in his beard to look more imposing.

Published: Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 4:00 a.m. Ten of North Carolina's 14 outdoor dramas will perform scenes from their plays at an amphitheater this weekend in Bath.