Windsor News

WITN News at Sunrise is road tripping again to area schools. The first stop was Windsor Elementary School in Bertie County.

" Unofficial tallies leave the future of the Bertie County Mixed Beverage referendum in doubt.

MediaCom customers in the Greenville-NewBern-Washington DMA will be able to view My Network prime & WITN's News/Weather channel effective November 9th.

" Despite being on another continent, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue refuses to sit still in regards to next week's scheduled release of 20 prisoners serving life terms.

Elizabeth City Police Force is joining the family on an officer in mourning his death Tuesday.

A 7 month long construction project means a new bridge for one town in Bertie County, it also means travel delays.

Prosecutors in Bertie County allege that in 1972 a man named Roy Lawrence Rascoe killed his pregnant 23-year-old wife, Annie, along with the couple's two toddlers.

Police say they've arrested a woman who is accused of a fraud scheme that totals in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

When members of the Federal Writers' Project passed through Windsor during the Great Depression, they missed some of the ways people in Bertie County were scraping by.

Markelby "Scooter" Ward was found in Windsor. Police have been looking for him since the August 28th murder on Raleigh Avenue.

Roy Lawrence Rascoe was charged with the first-degree murder of his wife and their children.

A Bertie County man has been arrested for the murders of his wife and two small children in 1972.

" Bertie County officials are moving swiftly to correct an issue that caused a Notice of Violation from the Division of Water Quality.

Princeville leaders found a new town manager. Town officials appointed David Overton, a retired Windsor resident, as its interim town manager this week during a closed session of its regular board meeting.

It did not take Princeville long to find and hire a town manager. Sam Knight, who held the job since 2003, retired Thursday.

" Citizens of Bertie County will have the opportunity to approve the sale of mixed drinks.

" The news that four Bertie County elementary schools reached Annual Yearly Progress goals is sitting well with district officials.

" Another senior civil servant is stepping off center stage. Windsor Commissioner O. Wint Hale has announced his intention not to seek reelection for his seat on the town board.

" The long-awaited work on the U.S. 17 Bridge spanning the Cashie River in Windsor is expected to begin later this month.

Motorists using a stretch of NC 305 in Bertie County will soon find a smoother ride over this two-lane strip of asphalt.