Roanoke Rapids City Council voted to allow the city manager and city attorney to begin negotiations with the city’s school system on a proposal in which two traffic control officer positions would be created to work at school crossings to bolster the current system of off-duty officer assignments.
A man wanted on outstanding warrants remains in the Halifax County Detention Center after he was found hiding under a bed Monday with help from another man.
With the 2025-26 North Carolina Legislative session underway, state Representative Rodney Pierce of Roanoke Rapids has received his committee assignments.
As part of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette’s Farewell Tour of the United States in 1825, the Historical Halifax Restoration Association and the Enfield Lafayette Planning Committee collaborated on a project aimed at actively involving students in learning about his role in the American Revolutionary War.
Halifax County commissioners Monday unanimously set a $50 million budget for a new detention center.
