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2008: April : January2007: October : July : April : January
2006: October : July
News Releases
- Museum of the Albemarle to Open New “Our Story” Exhibit, May 10 in Elizabeth City
- Dismal Swamp State Park Offers North Carolina Visitors New Access For Experiential Travel
- Elizabeth City Serves Up N.C. Potato Festival Weekend and Smorgasbord of Spring Events
- Boating Enthusiasts Love Elizabeth City’s Famous “Harbor of Hospitality”®
- Elizabeth City Beckons Travelers Who Seek The Great Outdoors
- Motorcoach Groups Have Many Reasons to Roll Into Elizabeth City
- Elizabeth City – This “Harbor of Hospitality”® Is Ideal for Small Meetings and Conferences
- Artifacts, Architecture and Atmosphere Bring Elizabeth City History to Life
- When Traveling With Kids, Get Out of the Car and Into Some Fun in Elizabeth City
- Rose Buddies Tradition Continues
- Warm Up Winter By Viewing Quilt Exhibition at the Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City, NC
- Elizabeth City, NC Has Elegant Options for a New Year's Eve Getaway
- Ansel Adams Exhibition Generates Headline News for Museum of the Albemarle and Elizabeth City
- ADVISORY: Ron Paul Blimp Launch from Elizabeth City, NC Delayed
- Ron Paul Blimp To Launch Dec. 10 from Elizabeth City, NC
- Fairfield Inn and Suites Holds Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
- Elizabeth City’s Latest Indulgence: The Chocolate House debuts specialty bar
- Pasquotank Arts Council Signs Construction Contract
- Elizabeth City Area Convention & Visitors Bureau and Downtown Business and Professional Association to Launch Cooperative Radio Campaign
- For a Weekend Getaway, Plan a Trip Around Elizabeth City's Early Fall Events
- The Museum of the Albemarle to Host Groundbreaking Ansel Adams Exhibition
- Elizabeth City State University Installation of Chancellor Willie J. Gilchrist Event Schedule
- 2007 Elizabeth City Historic Ghost Walk
- Visitor Expenditures in Pasquotank County up 7.4 Percent in 2006
- National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Exhibit Extended
- Elizabeth City Area CVB Brings Home Four Awards from State Association Annual Meeting
- Elizabeth City Area Freedom Seekers Tour Itinerary
- National Park Service Unveils Markers for Elizabeth City Area National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Sites Today
- NPS to Recognize Elizabeth City Area Sites Named to National Underground
- Weekend of American History from Elizabeth City to Edenton
- Children's Animal Scavenger Hunt with Photography
- Paths of Pasquotank cordially invites you to Paddle the Pasquotank for National Trails Day Celebration
- CVB Website Linked To Harbor Webcam
- Columbus Replica Ship 'Nina' to Visit Elizabeth City
- Check Out the Elizabeth City Area Convention & Visitors Bureau's New Website Images
- "Hide-N-Wood" Demonstration Gardens
- Harbor Arts Festival & Taste of Elizabeth City
- Floating an Idea for Unity
- "Cruising Carolina: Cape Fear" to premier March 3 on UNCTV
- Dismal Swamp Canal Excursions Re-start in May
- The Guardian Now Out ON DVD
- Pasquotank Arts Council and Elizabeth City Area Convention & Visitors Bureau announce photo contest winners
- Check out the Elizabeth City Area Convention & Visitors Bureau's new look at www.DiscoverEC.org!
- "Cruising Carolina: The Northern Albemarle" nominated for EMMY award
Magazine Articles
- Carolina Currents: Dismal Swamp Reopens, NC Bridge Schedule Changes
- CSTV Networks: ECSU Bowling Comes in Third at Eastern Division Meet III
- Carolina Currents: Dismal Swamp Canal Locks Close on Oct. 30
- Carolina Currents: Fred Fearing, Rose Buddy Co-Founder, Dies
- Fishers of Men: 2007 East Regional Championship on the Pasquotank River- Day 2 Results: Oct-13-2007
- Carolina Currents: Ansel Adams Photos Reveal ICW Life in 1940
- Carolina Currents: Classic Moth Boats Return to Elizabeth City
- Motor Boating: Local Knowledge - Elizabeth City, NC
- ATV Source: KTM’s Tim Farr Continues Winning Streak at Dixieland Speedway
- NC Boating Lifestyle: It's Speed Not Sailing, It's the Carolina Cup Regatta
- ECSU Headlines: Whitney Young Classic held on September 15
- Carolina Currents: The Ferries of North Carolina Author to discuss 'Ferry Tales' at Museum of the Albemarle July 25
- ECSU Headlines: National Park Service unveils markers
- Carolina Currents: Of Sails and Speedboats
- Carolina Currents: Shad Boat Earns First Slot on NC Historic Vessel Registry
- Carolina Currents: Maritime History Comes Alive in Elizabeth City, Edenton
- FishingWorld.com: Fishers of Men - Donnie Porter and Eric Tilley Win Season Opener
- Carolina Currents: Elizabeth City: Harbor of Hospitality
- FoR ENC: Elizabeth City Area Convention & Visitors Bureau Notes Economic and PR Impact from "The Guardian" Filming
- North Carolina Sea Grant: Coastwatch Spring 2006 - Cruising Into History: Dismal Swamp Canal Scenic, Peaceful
- FoR ENC: FoR ENC's Eastern North Carolina Film Commission Recruits Hollywood Production to Elizabeth City
- Northern Breezes: Stop & Smell the Roses
Community News
- Daily Advance: Hurdle Hardware says final goodbye to inventory with benefit auction for Benjamin House
- Daily Advance: 'Friends' raising funds for new state park
- Virginian-Pilot: For visiting boaters, the greet goes on in Elizabeth City
- Daily Advance: Swamp Park opens to public
- Daily Advance: Tunde Afolayan displays new works at ECSU gallery
- Daily Advance: UNC-TV program to showcase deli-wine bar, other EC attractions
- Daily Advance: River House Coffee satisfies EC's south side caffeine crave
- Daily Advance: Young scientists seek answers to real problems
- Daily Advance: Civil War history comes alive in EC
- Daily Advance: Dudes don dainty duds for Womanless Beauty Pageant benefit
- Daily Advance: Local students get the job picture
- Daily Advance: No escape for kings at chess tourney
- Daily Advance: MOA set to host Colonial Valentine's Day
- Daily Advance: Without more donors, landmark house may have to close
- Daily Advance - Downtowner: Encore presents "Don't Hug Me"
- Daily Advance - Downtowner: Oldest House in Elizabeth City celebrates 210th birthday
- Daily Advance: Get up, out and about around the Albemarle this weekend
- Daily Advance: RBC to mark 60th year with bang
- Daily Advance: Clock tower unveiled at ECSU
- Daily Advance: Honoring King's dream
- Daily Advance: 2+2 = ART Arts in the Albemarle art in education program begins taking shape
- Daily Advance: MLK events to honor civil rights leader
- Daily Advance: ECSU aviation program prepares for takeoff
- Daily Advance: 'Eat, Pray, Love': Page After Page hosts best-seller book event
- Virginian-Pilot: NC museum seeks items to tell region's history
- Daily Advance: Private funds sought for year's fireworks show
- Daily Advance: This old house - Grice-Fearing House turns 210
- Daily Advance: Hot tea - Harbour Tea House opens its doors for soothing brew, light refreshment
- Daily Advance: Arts of the Albemarle Starving Artist Sale opens Thursday
- Daily Advance: Traveling reptile zoo is giving kids a chance to win a slithering good time at school
- Daily Advance: Behind a door on the second floor of Museum of the Albemarle rests the past lives of Albemarle residents
- Daily Advance: Blackbeard's cannon
- Daily Advance: Want help with your science project? Port Discover comes to the rescue
- Daily Advance: Friday night's all right - City Wine Seller's weekly music lineup has become a staple for River City revelers
- Daily Advance - Downtowner: New Page After Page owners celebrate second anniversary
- Daily Advance - Downtowner: Encore Theatre Company presents "Don't Hug Me"
- Daily Advance - Downtowner: Pasquotank Arts Council announces new partnerships
- Daily Advance: 5 people who make a difference
- Daily Advance: Ringing in the New Year
- Daily Advance: Comment: COA launches athletics fundraiser
- Daily Advance: A comfort quilt: Albemarle Hospice launches quilt raffle fundraiser
- Daily Advance: Out'n the Cold warming things up in the Albemarle
- Daily Advance: Paul blimp finally takes to skies
- Daily Advance: From history tours to proper manners, a tea party for kids aims for fun and education
- Daily Advance: COA hosts Founder's Day, marks 47th year
- Daily Advance: Forest Park Church of God delivers dinners
- Daily Advance: City sidewalks, busy sidewalks
- Daily Advance: Kelly-Goss: Welcome to the holidays
- Daily Advance: No Lighted Boat Parade for 2nd straight year
- Boston Herald: Ansel Adams’ photos he likely didn’t want anyone to see go on view
- Virginian-Pilot: Historic Elizabeth City building may finally get those renovations
- Daily Advance: Haddad: ECSU Homecoming revenue dips from last year
- Daily Advance: COAST players present Sylvia: A dog gone good time
- Daily Advance: Three authors headline Page After Page book signing
- Daily Advance: Museum of the Albemarle opens Discovery Room for a hands-on approach to history
- Virginian-Pilot: A hauntingly good opportunity in Elizabeth City
- Daily Advance: Haunted Albemarle
- Virginian-Pilot: Portsmouth sports agent reaching for riches
- Daily Advance: Albemarle Craftsman's Fair attracts artists, shoppers
- Daily Advance: A haunting we will go
- Daily Advance: Corps: Low water to force closure of canal locks
- Daily Advance: What about Amanda?
- Virginian-Pilot: Elizabeth City remembers its own waterfront ambassador
- Daily Advance: Ambassador of goodwill dies
- Daily Advance: Officials: Fearing's work to continue
- Daily Advance: Rose Buddy founder Fearing dead at 93
- Virginian-Pilot: Fred Fearing, Elizabeth City ''Rose Buddy'' dies
- Daily Advance: Rose Buddy subs fill in for Fearing
- Daily Advance: Walk raises $25K for area agencies
- Daily Advance: Fishers of Men event catches on - Burke, Wenthe claim first place
- Daily Advance: Gone fishin': Fishers of Men event casts off
- Daily Advance: FOP to host haunted house fundraiser this month
- Daily Advance: Fishers of Men regional comes to Pasquotank River
- Daily Advance: Walk for Hunger - Food Bank looks to raise more than $32,000 at 24th annual walk fundraiser
- Virginian-Pilot: Outdoor Notebook: Cape Henry freshman surfs to amateur title
- Virginian-Pilot: Coast Guard celebrates 1 million flight hours by rescue choppers
- Daily Advance: O'Jays to perform at EC homecoming
- Richmond Times Dispatch: Ansel in the East
- Daily Advance: Double dip, please
- Virginian-Pilot: New chancellor takes reins at ECSU
- Daily Advance: Outside, now!
- Daily Advance: Dance! - North Carolina Dance Theatre brings the art of the dance to River City
- Daily Advance: EC Fairfield Inn opens for business
- Daily Advance: Gilchrist installed as chancellor
- Daily Advance: Radio ads spotlight EC area events
- Virginian-Pilot: ECSU chancellor wants to 'make a difference' at the school
- Daily Advance: 'We The People' - Celebrating the US Constitution
- Daily Advance: Take a child outside
- Daily Advance: Wedding planner's ultimate guide - Expert Doris Nixon caps off career with long-awaited book
- Virginian-Pilot: Fun, local history surround national moth boat race in N.C.
- Daily Advance: EC, county population grows to nearly 40K residents
- Daily Advance: 'Great breezes' give regatta sailors added challenge
- Daily Advance: On the river - The view from the water changes everything
- Daily Advance: Ansel Adams exhibit comes to MOA
- Daily Advance: Four artists awarded top honors at annual PAC gallery contest
- Virginian-Pilot: State line unites efforts for Dismal Swamp visitors
- Daily Advance: Annual art competition celebrates area artists
- Daily Advance: The life of a book - The popularity of reading may be waning, but old books wont die off, they get recycled
- Daily Advance: ECSU climbs in college rankings
- Daily Advance: United Way gets marching orders for 2007 campaign
- dBusinessNews Triangle: Tourism group partnering with AAA to attract visitors to North Carolina
- Daily Advance: Toys Etc. offers 'real toys'
- Virginian-Pilot: Museum of the Albemarle to close 2nd-floor gallery for renovations
- Daily Advance: MOA's main exhibit to close for expansion - 'Our Story' to undergo $1.7M renovation
- Weekly Times: "We heel, and save soles" Shoe Shine Supreme - Crank's Shoe Repair, Page 1, Page 2
- Daily Advance: Got tan?
- Daily Advance: Thousands attend anti-crime rally - Duncan wins event's first doughnut-eating contest
- Daily Advance: National Night Out has lots to do, see
- Daily Advance: Luther Greenhouses closing after nearly 50 years of business
- Daily Advance: Her Majesty's Service honors America's heroes
- Daily Advance: Coast Guard celebrates 217 years
- Suffolk News-Herald: Dismal legends live in swamp
- Daily Advance: A family affair
- dBusinessNews Triangle: Program launched to help boost tourism revenue in North Carolina’s northeastern counties
- Daily Advance: Coast Guard Day
- Daily Advance: You are entering the Art Zone
- Virginian-Pilot: Growing season over for good for popular family greenhouse
- Daily Advance: Volleyball camp aims to improve skills, feed middle school teams
- Weekly Times: 32 Flavors at Gentry's Sweet Scoops
- Daily Advance: Twiddy ends Chamber tenure at annual fundraising auction
- Daily Advance: Wakeboarding movement is picking up momentum
- Daily Advance: Page After Page Bookstore - Harry's bittersweet hurrah
- Daily Advance: Truck, tractor pulling gaining popularity
- Daily Advance: Fabric stores offer sew many choices
- Daily Advance: Shape up, kids! - Local fitness business offers kids free summer workouts in hopes of building healthier habits
- Daily Advance: More than Mayberry
- Daily Advance: Bonny Blue captain heading to port after last cruise
- Daily Advance: Back in time
- Daily Advance: A walk through history
- Daily Advance: Thousands attend festival, fireworks show
- Daily Advance: Second Taste of Elizabeth City success, despite rain
- Daily Advance: EC set for $25K fireworks display
- Daily Advance: Arts Festival exceeds expectations, official says
- Daily Advance: A taste of the arts - Pasquotank Arts Council goes for a double-header event with Taste of Elizabeth City and Harbor Arts
- Daily Advance: Haddad honored for tourism efforts - ECA CVB garners total of 4 awards
- Daily Advance: Lost Colony exhibit opens at MOA
- Daily Advance: State NAACP chief to speak at Juneteenth
- Virginian-Pilot: Coast Guard helicopter crews honored for sea rescues
- Daily Advance: River, canal's role in path to freedom celebrated
- Daily Advance: With school out, Meads Pool already a popular spot
- Virginian-Pilot: Area also features powerboat racing this weekend
- Daily Advance: Powerboaters to vie for Carolina Cup
- Daily Advance: New platforms allow camping on water
- Daily Advance: Rhondels play Grouper's deck
- Daily Advance: Two artists show at Pasquotank Arts Council Gallery
- Daily Advance: Marker to honor canal's role in Underground Railroad
- Daily Advance: SpongeBob big hit at KidsFest
- Daily Advance: Nature's Organic Bounty is healthy choice
- Daily Advance: 'Who lives in a pineapple ...'
- Daily Advance: Recipe for success - Montero's Perry wins national recipe contest
- Daily Advance: German travel writer makes pit stop in EC
- Daily Advance: 6,000 munch fries, tour ship, boogie at Potato Fest
- Daily Advance: Real horsepower fuels new carriage ride business
- Daily Advance: There's a skull in my coffee and other 'latte art' tales
- Daily Advance: Harbor Nights to be Harbor Night this year
- Daily Advance: 1,000 to walk in annual Relay
- Virginian-Pilot: Elizabeth City goes Elizabethan for potato festival
- Virginian-Pilot: Coast Guard honors Elizabeth City-based rescue swimmer
- Daily Advance: Historic ship to be featured at festival
- Daily Advance: All things potato ...
- Daily Advance: Webcam now filming Mariners' Wharf
- Daily Advance: Thank God live theater is alive and well in River City
- Daily Advance: Paddling the day away
- Daily Advance: Hanbury offers DeTours through historic EC
- Virginian-Pilot: Visitors take a peek inside hurricane hunter planes
- Daily Advance: Hurricane Hunters - Officials urge preparation as storm season nears
- Daily Advance: Cyclists ride in annual Tarwheel
- Virginian-Pilot: Swimmer is Coast Guard's Enlisted Person of the Year
- Daily Advance: Vittone wins USCG's top enlisted award
- Daily Advance: Paddling the Albemarle
- Daily Advance: Alexopulos to open two new eateries
- Daily Advance: List of requests for old ECMS growing
- Daily Advance: Nature tourism promotes area's rivers
- Daily Advance: Unveiling a mystery - Swamp park preps for fall opening
- Daily Advance: Three years after Isabel, fish populations recovering
- Daily Advance: 'Blood Brothers' - COAST Players spring musical doubles up on drama
- Daily Advance: The house that Russ rebuilt
- Virginian-Pilot: Wooden pilings removed for Elizabeth City water-racing event
- Daily Advance: Submerged pilings removed from river
- Daily Advance: Resident hopes rafts key to unity
- Daily Advance: Few businesses embrace USCG
- Daily Advance: Good coffee and new/old friends go hand in hand
- Daily Advance: Coffee Diaries: Part 2
- Daily Advance: Coffee Diaries: Part 1
- Daily Advance: Business: Tourism Web site adds offerings
- Daily Advance: Authors, readers converge at festival
- Daily Advance: 'For the Love of Books' - Page After Page holds first-ever literary festival
- Daily Advance: Area gardeners help to make the Gulf Coast green again
- Daily Advance: New Southgate Mall coffee shop offers taste of Colombia
- Daily Advance: Two nonprofit's partner on new online consignment store
- Daily Advance: International best selling author hits area for two engagements
- Daily Advance: The best of Ghost Walk
- Virginian-Pilot: Crowd packs Elizabeth City movie theater for 'Guardian' opening
- Virginian-Pilot: 'Guardian' OK - with a few liberties
- Daily Advance: Port Discover: Kids really do love science
- Virginian-Pilot: At this year's Carolina Cup Regatta, focus will be on boats
- Virginian-Pilot: eBay business in Elizabeth City will benefit two local nonprofit's
- Virginian-Pilot: Museum of the Albemarle's opening day hours away
- USA TODAY: Costner, Kutcher filming Coast Guard movie in NC
- Virginian-Pilot: Stars to appear in Elizabeth City
Photo Credit: Main image in header, photo appears courtesy of ECSU/University Relations & Marketing.
