Winfall News

Both Edenton and Winfall have reported spills of untreated sewage as a result of recent flooding caused by Tropical Storm Ida.

A 12-year incumbent councilor fell one vote shy of winning re-election in Hertford on Tuesday, while a write-in candidate won one of two open seats on the Winfall Town Council.

Elizabeth City voters head to the polls today to decide runoff elections for mayor and two 3rd Ward City Council seats.

A Hertford man died Friday night after being critically injured that morning when the vehicle he was driving ran underneath a tractor-trailer on U.S. Highway 17 north of Winfall.

One-stop voting in the Elizabeth City Municipal Election begins Thursday at the Pasquotank County Board of Elections on McArthur Street.

Cynthia N. Stallings, an instructional technology specialist with the Perquimans County Schools who retired in June, received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine award during a dinner held in her honor recently.

The S-bridge and causeway between Hertford and Winfall that has been closed since early July could be open by the time school buses start rolling on Tuesday.

The filing period for this fall's municipal elections ended Friday with three more candidates signing up for city council races in Elizabeth City.

An airplane described as a cropduster crashed a few miles away from a private airfield near Winfall, North Carolina, just before 7:30 p.m. Perquimans County Sheriff Eric Tilley said a 9-1-1 call about the crash came in at 7:31 p.m. The cropduster was making practice runs when it went down in the 800 block of Swamp Road.

Three challengers filed for City Council in Elizabeth City today. Elsewhere, incumbents filed in Winfall and Hertford and a challenger filed for a town council seat in Edenton.

Police have charged a Winfall man with trying to break into a video game machine at a Hertford laundromat.

Ten years after losing his office at City Hall, H. Rick Gardner is hoping to make a political comeback as mayor.

A 37-year-old pilot died Friday evening after the crop duster he was practicing in crashed, according to the Perquimans County sheriff.

An uneventful Friday marked the close of the first week of filing for municipal offices in the Albemarle.

Three incumbent city councilors and a former city council member led the way Monday as filing began for this fall's municipal elections in Elizabeth City.

She's traveled from the coast to the mountains working with local school districts during her educational career, but now Linda Layden has come back home.

Perquimans County commissioners have rejected a proposed minimum housing ordinance that supporters say is needed to help rid the county of substandard dwellings.

The towns of Hertford and Winfall are still at odds over Winfall's unpaid debt for wastewater treatment, even though a mediator has proposed an agreement designed to resolve the dispute.

A coalition of regional African American organizations critical of black leadership in politics and churches announced plans Wednesday to change the culture of poverty and crime in the black community in northeastern North Carolina.