Camden County News

Starting this month, Rocky Mount-based Golden LEAF Foundation will accept rolling grant applications as part of its new "Open Grants Program." About 10 area residents attended Elizabeth City State University for the video teleconference Thursday morning, which was broadcast to universities and technology schools statewide.

The U.S. Navy's study of Camden and Gates counties for an outlying landing field is still very much alive after a U.S. Senate committee balked Friday at including a measure barring the airfield in the counties from a defense authorization bill.

If the funding comes through, North Carolina's first-ever "green commerce park" could begin to take shape in northern Camden County as early as 2010, an official helping oversee the park's development said Tuesday.

Think for a moment about having nine children. Then contemplate for a moment on just how you might send them all to college.

" What started two years ago as a small cry from rural northeastern North Carolina is now echoing as a loud roar through the halls of the U.S. Capitol.

The Albemarle Hospital Foundation has been awarded a $60,000 grant to help uninsured and low-income citizens in Camden and Pasquotank counties receive the medications they need.

Two years of lobbying state and federal lawmakers and researching the Navy's proposal to erect an outlying land field in northeastern North Carolina appear to be finally paying off, officials said Thursday.

Camden County is still working to correct what caused high ammonia readings at the new wastewater plant that resulted in a notice of violation from the NC Division of Water Quality more than a month ago, which resulted in a $2,500 fine.

Local jail officials are concerned about a House budget plan thatkeeps certain state inmates in county jails longer and stops paying for their room and board.

A Camden County man caught with moonshine and firearms last year could face a life sentence if he's convicted of all five charges in a federal criminal indictment.

Camden County Schools officials are proposing to eliminate 30 positions - roughly a tenth of the school district's work force - in response to an anticipated loss of a little more than $1 million in state funding next year.

Elizabeth City officials will have $700,000 on their minds when they meet with their Pasquotank County counterparts later next month.

The Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Board of Education has again rejected a member's call for the board to formally oppose a U.S. Navy outlying landing field in neighboring Camden County.

Pasquotank County Register of Deeds Dollie Summerour is working her last day in the office today after nearly 18 years at the post.

For at least the second time in the past decade, Camden County will be withdrawing from the Albemarle Economic Development Commission.

Camden County Commissioner Michael McLain speaks Friday at a town hall meeting that addressed the state's budget shortfall and how it will affect public programs.

Two brothers from Wilmington are seeking information about 16 area soldiers who were either killed or declared missing in action during America's 25-year involvement in the Vietnam War.

The pilot of a small airplane made a crash landing Sunday morning on Sailboat Road in Camden County, N.C. The pilot took off from Edenton and had been flying about 20 minutes when the plane's engine died, according to WVEC-TV. The man was on his way to Dare County.

With projected revenues for next year continuing to decline, even deep spending cuts may not spare Pasquotank County property owners from a tax hike.

The state's top agriculture official said Camden and Currituck counties would pay a high price economically and that the loss of farmland could injure the nation's food supply if the Navy decides to build a practice landing field here.