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Local school officials are putting pen to paper in support of North Carolina's bid for hefty - and highly competitive - federal education grants to be awarded next year.

Mary Lou Spruill Combs, formerly of Stafford County, died Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009, in Williamston, N.C. Mary Lou was born in Columbia, N.C., on Jan.

Photo by Brian Strickland Apex High School student and cancer patient Aaron Mervin, right, recently joined Gov.

Chris Grimes feels it's important people know more about a "small part" of the Civil War, and how important it was in Eastern North Carolina.

Published: Monday, September 14, 2009 at 9:43 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, September 14, 2009 at 9:43 p.m. After months of delay from the state, the Pender County Board of Education finally passed the district's 2009-10 budget at its meeting Monday night - weeks after the first day of school.

The National Alumni Association of Elizabeth City State University is holding its 33rd Annual Alumni Awards Banquet today at 6:30 p.m. in the K. E. White Center.

You have to watch the video closely...but you just might see Michael Jackson's ghost! 104.1 WTQR's Jeff Roper plays the video.

Published: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 4:46 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 4:46 p.m. Pender County schools on May 1 became clients of a new Web-based Wilmington company that bills itself as an innovative approach to school fundraising.

Jet-powered, Raleigh-based businessman William Wise snagged gold and diamonds, a quarter-million-dollar wine collection, a private plane, luxury SUVs and millions in cash thanks to investors' faith and deposits in Wise's now-failed Caribbean bank.

Published: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 11:34 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 11:34 a.m. Belt tightening by Pender County in its proposed 2009-10 budget includes $457,000 less for the school system, a prospect a school official calls 'disastrous' in light of expected state funding cuts.