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- Frances Price Oliver PL parade marshal
Pine Level has chosen Frances Price Oliver, 90, to be its grand marshal in the town's Christmas parade to be held Sunday, Dec.
- 9 sentenced in multistate tobacco ring
Prosecutors say nine people have been sentenced in a black-market tobacco ring in Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and North Carolina involving more than $4.5 million.
- Tough Times
It goes without saying that right now is a troubling time for many. Job growth is stagnant and money for so many is tight if not non-existent. In parts of the East, some promising news: Unemployment rates have ...
- Holy Smoke
John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed don't have a preference for Eastern or Lexington barbecue, and that's a good thing.
- The Collard Green Festival in Ayden North Carolina
I realize that there are a substantial number of people in America who have never tasted collard greens and who even look at collard greens and can't imagine anyone ever eating them.
- Ranchers start over after all is lost in Africa
In Zimbabwe, Wally Herbst would've left this kind of hard and dirty work to his hired hands.
- Fire Roars In Ayden
Hey, read the rules! Black smoke clouds filled the sky all because of a piece of farm equipment caught fire.
- Church Happenings
MEN'S CONFERENCE at St. Paul F.W.B. Church, Richlands at 9 a.m. Oct. 11. Cost $5, brunch served.
- Church Happenings
SISTERS OF FAITH Fellowship meeting at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 at Union Missionary Baptist Church with speaker Sharon Brown on "Faith in the face of Aids." Call 910-577-1592. GOSPEL MUSIC FEST at Christian Tabernacle ...
- Raper-Vandenbree
Amy Nelson Vandenbree of Cornelius and Jerry Lane Raper Jr. of Wilson exchanged wedding vows June 21 at the home of Randy and Mitzie Howard.
- NEMA Midgets highlight Saturday Action on PASS 400 Weekend
Said Mayberry, "I'm excited that we've been able to add the NEMA midgets to the Saturday September 20th schedule for PASS 400 weekend.
- Collard Festival Kicks Off Saturday Afternoon In Hanna Aftermath
Hey, read the rules! Ayden collard festival organizers say the show is back on in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Hanna.
- NC's Public Power Communities Experiencing Scattered Outages Due to Tropical Storm Hanna
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 6 NC-ElectriCitiesHanna RALEIGH, N.C. , /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NC Public Power communities are experiencing scattered outages throughout eastern North Carolina due to the high winds and ...
- Kinston Blues band to play at Collard Festival
The Donald Underwood Thompson Band of Kinston will appear at this year's Collard Festival in Ayden.
- Elda E. Strayhorn
Elda E. Strayhorn, 73, of 103 Back St., Trenton, died Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008, at Craven Regional Medical Center in New Bern.
- Famed BBQ Restaurant Catches Fire
Hey, read the rules! One of the most famous barbecue restaurants in Eastern Carolina, and one that's been noted nationally, caught fire Thursday.
- Fast Track To School: A New Service Could Get Students To Class Quicker
Hey, read the rules! Pitt County Schools will try out an express bus service at Wintergreen Primary, Wintergreen Intermediate, Creekside And Ayden Elementary Schools.
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- Two arrested in convenience store robbery
Two people have been arrested and police are searching for a third man accused of robbing a convenience store at gunpoint early Saturday morning.
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City DescriptionAyden is a town in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,622 at the 2000 census and the 2007 estimated population was 4,827. The town is a part of the Greenville Metropolitan Area of North Carolina's Inner Banks region.
Ayden is located at 35°28′16″N 77°25′15″W / 35.47111, -77.42083 (35.470973, -77.420740).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km²), all of it land.
In 1891, William Henry Harris asked the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to build a train depot on a portion of his farm in order to create a village. A forty acre parcel of land was divided into residential lots surrounding the depot in "Harristown", with Harris owning every other lot. Within the next several years, lots were sold and homes built. Businesses began to open up to support the new residents, and on February 3, 1891, the town was incorporated as "Ayden." Within a few years, the Carolina Christian College and the Free Will Baptist Seminary were established. By 1919, Ayden had full-time electricity supplied by the Ayden municipal light plant. In 1922, the Mutual Building and Loan Association of Ayden was organized to help ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- Pitt County
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