Alliance, North Carolina

• Smitty's Notes
  

  Greetings Smittyheads, The days are getting longer. Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday, March 14, 2010.

• Daybook
  

  The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough will hold its Tenth Annual Revolutionary War Living History Day Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the grounds of the Alexander Dickson House, 150 E. King St., Hillsborough.

• River Advocates Allege Clean Water Act Violations
  

  River advocates are alleging Clean Water Act violations by a North Carolina hog operation.

• County wrestles with budget
  

  Published: Monday, February 1, 2010 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 5:26 p.m. Discussion of the budget and capital projects will dominate the Henderson County Board of Commissioners meeting today.

• Term Limit Group Makes a New Score
  

  This week, the Alliance for Bonded Term Limits -- an organization based in Pinehurst -- found a second congressional candidate to make a bonded pledge to serve a limited stint in Washington.

• Conference Alerts Manufacturers To Defense Opportunities
  

  Because the downturn in commercial manufacturing has made many companies aware of the viable and lucrative alternative the Department of Defense represents for maintaining and growing their sales, more than 145 people attended this event, including representatives from North Carolina machine shops, contract manufacturers and other industry vendors.

• NC group recruits for new term-limit pledge
  

  A novel method to persuade politicians to fulfill term-limit pledges came to John Skvarla of Pinehurst three years ago when his specialty construction company got bonded for an upcoming job.

• Midyette-Willis
  

  Ashley Midyette of Reelsboro and Ricky Willis of Bayboro were united in marriage on Sept.

• Reuse Alliance launches first state chapter in North Carolina
  

  It's just got a whole lot easier to to tap into North Carolina's reuse sector. Last week, leaders from the state's reuse industry gathered with representatives from environmental education and public works agencies to launch "Reuse Alliance North Carolina," the first statewide network focused on connecting, supporting, and promoting local reuse ...

• Pamlico chamber kicks off Christmas toy drive
  

  Even in good economic times, many Pamlico County children face waking up Christmas morning with not even a single present.

• Canvas expected to confirm Pamlico voting
  

  Today's canvas of the Pamlico County municipal elections are expected to be a formality to confirm voter choices from last Tuesday's elections.

• Election season quiet amid nine Pamlico towns
  

  BAYBORO The conclusion of early One Stop voting in Pamlico County Saturday mirrored the early 2007 turnout for elections in nine towns small.

• Salvation Army seeks help in providing a better Christmas for community
  

  During the first two days of taking applications this week for Christmas assistance, Salvation Army staff members were overwhelmed with 140 requests.

• Deaths, resignations cut into Pamlico municipal candidate pool
  

  Four candidates for four board seats and mayor. High vote total winner is elected mayor.

• Volunteers needed Saturday for annual outdoor cleanup
  

  The annual statewide Big Sweep to clean the waters and land of North Carolina is scheduled Saturday.

• Pamlico history on display
  

  Since it was founded 137 years ago, Pamlico County has grown only to about 14,000 people, spread across 351 square miles along the Neuse River and Pamlico Sound.

City Description

Alliance is a town in Pamlico County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 781 at the 2000 census. It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area. Alliance is located at 35°8′35″N 76°48′55″W / 35.14306°N 76.81528°W / 35.14306; -76.81528 (35.143133, -76.815333). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 781 people, 288 households, and 201 families residing in the town. The population density was 389.5 people per square mile (150.0/km²). There were 304 housing units at an average density of 151.6/sq mi (58.4/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 79.64% White, 17.67% African American, 1.15% Native American, 0.51% Asian, 0.26% from other races, and 0.77% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.77% of the population. There were 288 households out of which 26.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.6% were married couples living together, 10.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.2% were non-families. 27.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.1% had someone

City Contained By:

• United States of America
• Pamlico County
• North Carolina

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 5.17997622067 km squared

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