Public Radio East

With necropsy – or animal autopsy – results still pending, the cause of the deaths and strandings is not clear, but a North Carolina expert worries that pollution in the Atlantic and/or climate change could be factors.

Wildfire in the Croatan, the fate of North Carolina's carnivorous plant, continuing coverage of the Camp Lejeune toxic water, and a small businessman's fight against the NC Railroad are among the stories on the list.

The 100-year-old, recently renovated?Shop Class?building overlooks railroad tracks that send freight to and from the docks in Morehead City and North Carolina’s larger cities, on a path through New Bern – and it’s that rail line that has caused a problem for Shop Class owner Maurice Howland.

In a statement, ECU officials said Polito was employed on Aug. 13, 2001, as an assistant professor in the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management in the College of Business. He resigned from ECU on Jan. 17, 2017, as tenured associate professor.

Hannah Crafts is the first Black female novelist in the U.S. She began writing her novel in 1851 as a slave in northeastern North Carolina and finished it after escaping to the North. The Bondwoman’s Narrative wasn’t published until 2003, more than 150 years after she began writing it.

The first-ever Celebrate Shelter Pets Day was held this week at the Craven County Animal Services shelter.

A small eastern North Carolina town is again providing the people who live there with drinking water, more than four years after its well was found to be contaminated by forever chemicals. PRE’s Annette Weston-Riggs has more about “Naturally Welcoming” Maysville and how it’s leading a path forward for other communities across the state dealing with PFAS.