The N.C. Department of Transportation will host a public input meeting on its $42 million road improvement project along Elizabeth City’s Hughes Boulevard today from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
In monthly meetings with participants, the police chief encourages them to install home security cameras, act as good witnesses and be concerned neighbors.
Around 20 people recently showed up to the third meeting of the restored Elizabeth City Community Watch. Police Chief Phil Webster hopes the numbers continue to grow.
An unannounced food giveaway earlier this week was more evidence of the growing hunger crisis throughout the Albemarle.
In under three hours on Monday, Dec. 7, the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank County Senior Center gave away 450 boxes of food to area seniors. The boxes of cheese, sausages, milk and other products were given away during an event that was originally scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 1 but had to be postponed.
The event was delayed after an expected delivery to Food Bank of the Albemarle did not happen that day, the senior centerâs superintendent Stacy Williams said at the time. The giveaway would be made up later, she said.