Chowan County /tags/chowan-county Chowan County en-US Copyright Fri, 13 Dec 2024 21:03:01 GMT North Carolina's second land-based wind farm opens for business in Chowan County /environment/2024-12-13/north-carolina-land-wind-farm-timbermill-chowan-county Timbermill Wind in Chowan County includes 45 turbines spread out across more than 6,000 acres. The project is expected to produce clean energy and provide an economic boom to the region. Fri, 13 Dec 2024 21:03:01 GMT /environment/2024-12-13/north-carolina-land-wind-farm-timbermill-chowan-county Celeste Gracia Rural providers especially excited about NC Medicaid expansion: 'They have a chance now' /health/2023-11-20/medicaid-expansion-rural-health-roanoke-chowan-mobile-clinic North Carolina legislators passed — and Gov. Roy Cooper signed — a Medicaid expansion law earlier this year. The move will bring health insurance to some 600,000 low-income North Carolinians beginning Dec. 1. For some patients and providers, expansion can’t come soon enough. Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:19:45 GMT /health/2023-11-20/medicaid-expansion-rural-health-roanoke-chowan-mobile-clinic Jason deBruyn Edenton, N.C. leaders agree to move town’s Confederate monument /news/2023-03-17/edenton-nc-leaders-agree-move-confederate-monument Town leaders in Edenton, N.C unanimously agreed this week to move a Confederate monument, potentially ending a lawsuit from a coalition of groups that wanted to protect the structure. Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:29:58 GMT /news/2023-03-17/edenton-nc-leaders-agree-move-confederate-monument Mechelle Hankerson | WHRO In Edenton, progress of removing a Confederate monument has stalled, dividing the town /race-demographics/2023-02-14/edenton-confederate-monument-stalled-divided-eastern-nc If you’re driving on U.S. Highway 17, close to the line dividing Bertie and Chowan counties, a new billboard might catch your eye. It reads: “Welcome to Edenton. We Apologize for the Confederate Statue. We’re Working on It.” Tue, 14 Feb 2023 19:48:28 GMT /race-demographics/2023-02-14/edenton-confederate-monument-stalled-divided-eastern-nc Leoneda Inge A rural school gets creative in facing the NC teacher shortage /education/2022-09-27/rural-school-creative-north-carolina-chowan-teacher-shortage “Although on paper, it looks like we have a vacancy, we don't have a void,” says superintendent Michael Sasscer. Edenton-Chowan Schools is pairing a new or substitute teacher with an experienced teacher in a co-teaching relationship to fill its vacancies. Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:13:08 GMT /education/2022-09-27/rural-school-creative-north-carolina-chowan-teacher-shortage Liz Schlemmer NC Elections Officials Aim To Avoid Poll Worker Shortage This Fall /politics/2020-07-14/nc-elections-officials-aim-to-avoid-poll-worker-shortage-this-fall Anne Moebes signed up to work at a polling site in Buncombe County for the March 3 primaries, just before the coronavirus pandemic really hit the United… Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:14:47 GMT /politics/2020-07-14/nc-elections-officials-aim-to-avoid-poll-worker-shortage-this-fall Rusty Jacobs Archaeologists Search For Remains Of Edenton's First Court House /arts-culture/2014-07-28/archaeologists-search-for-remains-of-edentons-first-court-house Visitors to historic Edenton already know about the "new" courthouse. That one was built in 1767. Today, archaeologists will begin searching for the… Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:58:35 GMT /arts-culture/2014-07-28/archaeologists-search-for-remains-of-edentons-first-court-house Rebecca Martinez