Stonewall News

The sounds of war will rend the air this weekend. The pop of muskets, boom of cannons and cries of human voices will be common Saturday and Sunday at Stonewall Manor during its living history and re-enactment weekend, said Lauren Filliettaz, Nash County Historical coordinator for the house.

Barring write-in upsets, four Pamlico County towns have what appear to be no-contest elections.

Early Farmers Day arrivals who get to Robbins hungry can eat their fill of flapjacks.

Tuesday brought the largest daily filing turnout yet for the November general municipal elections in nine Pamlico County towns.

Municipal filings picked up for nine Pamlico County towns Monday with the beginning of the final week to get on the Nov.

In the early morning hours of late June 1969, patrons of a New York gay bar decided they'd had enough.

Bridge maintenance will delay motorists next week in New Bern and in Pamlico County.

They always try to leave some beauty behind. Whether the members of the Rocky Mount Garden Club are participating in a flower show, planting trees and flowers or decorating a building, they want to leave the area looking better than when they arrived, said Rose Bailey, hospitality chairwoman.

The Pamlico County Relay for Life raised $124,707.58, all in an effort to help find a cure for cancer, during this year's event at Pamlico County High School.

The first time he helped fire the cannon, Tony King was hooked. He had gone along to the Civil War re-enactment event because some friends invited him and the idea appealed.

In a small rural area such as Pamlico County there are plenty of friends among the 1,300 residents, especially among those who have been touched by cancer.

Last week's announcement that 61 new jobs are coming to Sylva with the expansion of Jackson Paper is relief for a town hurting from the closing of the T&S Hardwoods sawmill that employed 75.