With the departure of Lance Jenkins to the Roanoke Avenue Business Alliance as Main Street director, the Roanoke Rapids Parks and Recreation Department will freeze his former position as manager of the Roanoke Canal Museum and Trail.
The Roanoke Rapids Parks ad Recreation Department got a $20,000 thank you gift from Dominion Power for letting contractors during the aftermath of Hurricane Irene use the theater as a staging center.
Roanoke Rapids Interim Police Chief Jeff Hinton Tuesday night presented city council with a snapshot of the city's crime rate, first going over the 2009 to 2010 percentage changes and then a picture of where crime is from January to September of this year, comparing them to the same period last year.
As of Friday, contractors for the Public Works Department have hauled 2,163 truckloads of debris to the storm disposal site at Ledgerwood Field, council was told at its work session tonight.
The Halifax County Convention and Visitors Bureau this evening presented its marketing plan for the Roanoke Rapids Theatre.
