This story appears in the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald of Ahoskie and is reprinted with permission.

Despite last minute pleas from the public and a dramatic objection from one board member, the Northampton County Board of Education’s decision made in December to merge the county’s two high schools still stands.

Here is a link to the complete story on the Northampton-East and Northampton-West high school merger story from the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald.

The Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald reported tonight that the Northampton County Board of Education approved the merger of its two high schools.

The merger of Northampton high schools East and West is expected to begin in the 2012-2013 school year. The East campus will serve as the location for the new school.

The Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald of Ahoskie is reporting the suspicious death of a man on Bryantown Road near Jackson.

The man has been identified as Martin, Powell, 70.

Two Northampton County men stand charged with the attempted murder and robbery of an elderly woman near Conway, the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald of Ahoskie reports.

More information has emerged in a stand-off in Rich Square today, the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald of Ahoksie reports.

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CONWAY — It’s not hard to see Conway is a community in mourning.

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CONWAY – The Rev. Willie McLawhorn has spent more than a decade preaching the love God has for his people at Conway Baptist Church.

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The fallout continues from an IRS probe earlier this year conducted at a Murfreesboro business.