Hyde County News

When Robert Jones worked at Pasquotank Correctional Institution as a captain in the mid-1990s, he often wondered what it would be like to be the prison's administrator.

After a mild Thanksgiving, a cold reality check has moved into eastern Carolina.

A coastal flood warning is still in effect until 8 AM Saturday morning in Hyde County.

Flooding is causing problems in Hyde County, on roadways and in low-lying areas.

He's been wanted since February on sex crime charges, now a man who avoided police by leaving the state is in custody.

North Carolina's Scenic Byways program has garnered attention from the federal government, which has bestowed two of the state's routes with prestigious national designations.

A shooting Saturday night in Engelhard has landed two people in the hospital and another in jail.

Including: The Artist of the Quarter in love with Ocracoke...Everything you want to know about the new Swan Quarter Park and the Swan Quarter Service Group and their future plans... The Teacher of the Quarter: Mr. Julio Morales, a foreign ESL teacher from Venezuela... NY Post Page 6: Swan Quarter's Ingrid Lemme and FOX News's Bill O'Reilly... Never forgotten: JOHN BURNEY McGOWAN... “The Flop-Eared Hound” by Ellis Credle... Remembering on Veteran's Day: Edward Dunn Manning and all who served, because Freedom is not Free! ... The Old Gentleman of the Blues, "Guitar Crusher" of Berlin, Germany who grew up in Hyde County... The Big Swan Quarter Yard Sale ...and so much more...

The health department has only received 100 initial doses, and more vaccine is anticipated in the coming weeks so that other people can also be vaccinated.

Bill O'Reilly, probably the most controversial and most talked about TV journalist world wide, fulfilled a promise yesterday (Sat. Sep 26th 2009) that he gave American Dream Show host Ingrid Lemme six years ago. He appeared on Ms Lemme’s talk show, filmed at Gurney’s Inn in Montauk, in front of a live audience and aired on WVVH Hamptons TV, tri-state N.Y. - 30 guests enjoyed a fabulous ½ hour with Ingrid and "The No Spin Zone” man who had the audience at times in tears, stunned or even hysterically laughing. Bill was certainly fresh, and bold in true Factor style, but at the same time quite charming. He signed books, granted the ‘by invitation only’ audience photo opportunities and stayed for lunch with Gurney’s CEO Paul Monte, CFO Gary Hodgins and Gurney’s dream woman.

Raw sewage is gushing into a waterway in Hyde County, after a sewer line rupture.

Percy Carawan was a knowledgeable hunter, trapper and decoy carver, one of the best outdoorsmen in Hyde County...First Annual Mattamuskeet Decoy & Waterfowl Festival In Swan Quarter, NC Mattamuskeet High School Hyde County November 21 & 22. The Festival will be held in the honor of Ferrell A. Berry and Percy Carawan, two men who have contributed so much to Hyde County’s waterfowl heritage.

A ruptured sewer line spilled about 28,000 gallons of untreated sewage into the waters of Swan Quarter Bay upstream of the Swan Quarter Ferry Canal entrance in Hyde County.

RALEIGH, N.C. : August 28, 2009 - Unemployment rates dropped in 59 counties in July, according to statistics released today by the state's Employment Security Commission.

A former Hyde County deputy sheriff had his first court appearance Friday after his arrest for allegedly repeatedly tasing two people.

As the Charlotte metro region slides slowly back into drought conditions, parts of the North Carolina coast are trying to recover from a Labor Day of heavy rain and flooding.

Three 4th Fighter Wing F-15E Strike Eagles break away from a tight formation and fire flares over Hyde County as part of a photo shoot for publications across the world.

Sampson County was in the minority in July with its slight rise in the number of jobless.

The road less traveled is paved today, that was not the case in most of Hyde County in 1942. Travel back in time and meet the mover and shaker families of '42

Gov. Beverly Perdue said Friday that county governments would receive nearly $38 million in lottery funds earmarked for school construction that she held back six months ago to manage the state's budget woes.