The city should have all Hurricane Irene cleanup expenses reimbursed by Thursday, Finance Director MeLinda Hite told council tonight.

Toppled over by the fury of Hurricane Irene in August, today a new steeple sits on top of Rosemary Baptist Church.

The Weldon Fire Department will return to its old fire station once repairs are made to fix the damage done during Hurricane Irene.

The Roanoke Rapids Parks ad Recreation Department got a $20,000 thank you gift from Dominion Power for letting contractors during the aftermath of Hurricane Irene use the theater as a staging center.

As of Friday, contractors for the Public Works Department have hauled 2,163 truckloads of debris to the storm disposal site at Ledgerwood Field, council was told at its work session tonight.

More than two weeks after Hurricane Irene struck North Carolina, almost $12 million in state and federal aid has been approved to help those affected by the storm.

With storm expenses from Hurricane Irene totaling $400,000, Interim City Manager Ed Wyatt told council tonight the city would have to begin carefully watching spending.

By the end of the day, the Weldon Fire Department will have solved its housing woes for Station 1 for at least three months.

Hurricane Irene significantly damaged 148 houses and caused $3.2 million damages in Roanoke Rapids and its extraterritorial jurisdiction, city council was told at its work session tonight.

A story on Hurricane Irene reported from Weldon was featured in the Wall Street Journal this week. The story can be found by clicking on the words Wall Street Journal in the first sentence.