The city will get help from the engineering firm which did the Rochelle Park restoration on which plants can be safely trimmed without compromising the erosion control measures done for the project.

Several people in the neighborhood have complained the restoration effort, designed to rid the park of dangerous ditches up to 10 feet deep and control years of erosion, have made the park an eyesore. They have also complained the wooden fence surrounding the riparian buffer is unsightly.

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Two men allegedly involved in a roofing scam in Roanoke Rapids are being held in the Edgecombe County Jail for exploitation of the elderly.

Investigation by Roanoke Rapids police Detective Frankie Griffin led to warrants being served in Edgecombe County for Vincent Craig Moore, 38, and Jeffery Carmichael, 43.

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Brian Baker’s future is being groomed on Lake Gaston.

It is a future which could take the 16-year-old Roanoke Rapids High School junior to a professional career in the increasingly popular world of wakesurfing, a sport where the surfer rides a wake created by a specialized boat that takes the rider on a trip for as long as their endurance holds out.

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About the only complaints the Roanoke Rapids Police Department received about National Night Out was the heat.

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Jacob Davis is now charged with the burning of Stanley White Presbyterian Church.

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