Camden News

George Ramsay demonstrates how a Shingle Lighter boat is maneuvered, Wednesday, Ramsay built the boat based on only two known drawings of the vessel that will be on display on the Great Dismal Swamp canal trail.

A proposed YMCA in the Maple area will cost the county $12 million and should be open no later than December 2011, if not sooner, Currituck County officials said Monday.

Efforts by state mental health officials to get to the bottom of the fiscal meltdown at Albemarle Mental Health Center - and determine if any illegal activity occurred amid the mismanagement of the agency - will have to wait at least a couple more weeks.

Area school districts pass out hundreds of report cards every year, but on Thursday, the tables were turned.

Unemployment in the Albemarle area fell slightly in September, according to figures released by the N.C. Employment Security Commission.

Camden officials should find out in the next several weeks whether the South Mills fire station project has been awarded federal grant funding.

Staff Photo by Justin FallsMoriah Mattix, 10, tries to look up and catch her breath as she competes during a pie eating competition during the first ever downtown Fall Festival in the RBC Centura parking lot on the corner of Water Street and Main Street, Saturday.

A final defense spending bill likely to be signed by President Obama won't contain provisions blocking a Navy landing field from area counties or requiring host counties to sign off on the airfield.

D.G. Martin "It is like you picked up the entire population of the state of South Carolina and moved them into North Carolina" This is the way Ferrel Guillory, director of UNC-Chapel Hill's Program on Public Life, begins to talk about the impact of population growth in North Carolina since he moved here in 1972.

The regional public health agency has run out of the vaccine used to help adults fight seasonal flu and won't be getting any more this season, a health official said Friday.

Author and professor Kate Willink is the ultimate Yankee: raised in New York City.

The number of sick students missing school in Perquimans County continued to climb last week.

Camden County commissioners this week agreed to seek federal stimulus funding for construction of a new water treatment plant that would be operated by the South Camden Water and Sewer District and serve the county's planned green industrial park.

A Shiloh resident whose building permit application was denied because of school capacity impact concerns lost her appeal on Monday.

Chowan County will become the second area county to receive $2 million as part of a Community Assistance Initiative started by the Golden LEAF Foundation in Rocky Mount.

Three area school districts have announced their winners of the annual Wachovia Principal of the Year contest.

The county manager and the chairman of the Board of County Commissioners are among the nine members of a new panel that will oversee development not only at Camden's proposed green park but the entire county as well.

Unemployment rates in August generally decreased in the Albemarle and across most of the state.

How much would you pay to cross the Mid-Currituck Bridge? That's what the state agency overseeing the Currituck County bridge project wants to know from local residents.

Although they haven't seen a drop in attendance, area school officials say they're concerned about the spread of the pandemic H1N1 influenza, commonly known as swine flu.