“An Evening of Jazz: Celebrating Max Roach,” set for 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17, in Elizabeth City honors the jazz drummer and Pasquotank County native a week after what would have been his 100th birthday.
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State, Greyhound add university stop in Elizabeth City
The North Carolina Department of Transportation announced Wednesday that it had partnered with Greyhound in expanding bus service to Elizabeth City State University to make it easier for people to access the state and national intercity bus network.
ECSU’s Dixon to begin new role as NC Central chancellor
The UNC Board of Governors has announced that Dr. Karrie Dixon, who has led Elizabeth City State University since 2018, will be the new N.C. Central University chancellor.
Elizabeth City history traces back to early Colonial days
Elizabeth City’s roots can be traced back to the earliest days of the Colony and, though rural for centuries, is now a thriving college town.
Elizabeth City museum to host Lake Phelps canoes program
The museum in Elizabeth City is offering the talk Nov. 15 with a state archaeologist on the effort to conserve the dugout canoes excavated from Lake Phelps in Pettigrew State Park.
‘Crafted from Wood’ to open at Elizabeth City museum
The exhibit opening Nov. 11 explores the gift of crafting treasures from wood while highlighting the training and abilities of the crafter.
Elizabeth City museum to look at rural NC, US
The Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City will host the traveling exhibit, “Crossroads: Change in Rural America,” Jan. 24 through March 8 and an in-house exhibit to complement called “Century and Bicentennial Farms of northeastern North Carolina.”
Elizabeth City eyes hiring Steinburg as lobbyist
Elizabeth City council’s finance committee unanimously voted last week to begin the process of hiring former state Sen. Bob Steinburg as the city’s lobbyist in Raleigh.
Coast Guard Station Elizabeth City set to mark 82nd year
The Coast Guard’s largest aviation facility, Air Station Elizabeth City has grown from 249 to 800 acres, and from 60 to 2,000 personnel and employees since being commissioned Aug. 15, 1940.
Elizabeth City museum to display 1920s soybean harvesters
Elizabeth City’s Museum of the Albemarle will have on display next month early 20th century soybean harvesters, in conjunction with the unveiling Aug. 12 of an updated highway marker dedicated to to soybean processing.
