Sharpsburg News

SHARPSBURG Sharpsburg commissioners will be entering a closed session during their regular meeting Tuesday night to discuss land development.

SHARPSBURG Sharpsburg residents will have a chance tonight to give town commissioners their two cents on the proposed 2009-10 budget.

SHARPSBURG The town will be keeping its current administrator after all. Sharpsburg commissioners voted at their regular meeting last week to renew Town Administrator Robert Masters' contract.

A 27-year-old man died Saturday night after jerking his car left, causing it to overturn multiple times on Davis Road near Sharpsburg.

SHARPSBURG The town may have to wait longer than anticipated to get additional state funding to pay for a $4.2 million sewer rehabilitation project.

Four more property revaluation appeals were heard Monday at the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners meeting.

PINETOPS A Pinetops resident was recently appointed to the N.C. State University Board of Trustees.

SHARPSBURG Sharpsburg commissioners will have two meetings this week to discuss the town's 2009-10 FY budget.

Authorities believe that a resident smoking in bed may have caused a fire that heavily damaged an Elm City assisted living center and displaced 42 residents late Saturday night.

Police officers from across the country, including three from North Carolina began riding their bicycles earlier this week from Charleston, S.C. on their way to Washington, D.C. to the National Law Enforcement Memorial.

A child injured when a car ran him over in an apartment complex parking lot Saturday is out of the hospital and back with his family.

Hey, read the rules! A Governor's Highway Safety DWI Checkpoint in Eastern Carolina ended with dozens of charges, at least one DWI case and several drug charges.

A male black bear was killed Thursday in Rocky Mount after it was hit on a highway by a pickup truck.

STANTONSBURG Stantonsburg United Methodist Church was chosen as the April Yard of the Month by the Stantonsburg Kiwanis Club.

From left, Patricia Powell of Princeville and Joseph Robidous of Sharpsburg are waited on Monday at the new DMV License Plate Agency inside the Edgecombe County Administration Building in Tarboro by clerk Amy Anderson and agency supervisor Robin O'Neal. Business seems a "little slow," O'Neal said, because "people are still finding out about our new ...

SHARPSBURG Sharpsburg commissioners will be holding a work session Wednesday to review a proposed town employee personnel policy.

NASH COUNTY As part of its effort to provide free cancer screenings, and in conjunction with National Colorectal Cancer Month, Nash Health Care Systems this month and early April is sponsoring free colorectal cancer screenings.

Friday morning the US Marshals Service for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced the results of a multi-agency fugitive roundup in the Wilmington area.

When the Sharpsburg citizens spoke at a Chat with the Chief" meeting last week, Chief Craig Bissette and his officers listened.

Following several fights and a shooting that left one young man injured two weeks ago, Wilson Police arrested 14 gang members Wednesday in locations across Wilson County including at all three public high schools and two middle schools.