Aydlett News

North Carolina Representative Bill Owens presents a Long Leaf Pine Award to former Camden County Commissioner Samuel K. Shaw Sr.

For the sake of wild horses, Currituck County plans to ban riding or owning domestic horses in the four-wheel-drive area north of Corolla.

Plans for the Mid-Currituck Bridge don't go back quite as far as the days of Blackbeard, but the project has been debated, dropped and debated again for decades - long enough for many a vacationer stuck in the summertime crawl to and from the Outer Banks to surrender hope it would ever get built.

Tim Aydlett and his brother Mike Aydlett set up a temporary moonshine still on Canal Road in the Dismal Swamp State Park.

A teary-eyed and painful walk home for a Currituck County girl. All because her school bus driver made what her mother calls an unacceptable judgment call.

While the negative public reaction to an option for the Mid-Currituck Bridge project wasn't unexpected, a state official says it's not true the option represents a "deal" to appease environmentalists' concerns about the bridge project.

About 40 Currituck residents turned out Monday evening to hear engineers from the North Carolina Turnpike Authority discuss a new plan for the proposed Mid-Currituck Bridge.

Responding to complaints from beach residents about vacationers overcrowding roadways and driving recklessly, Currituck commissioners took steps this week to impose new restrictions on businesses that provide tours of off-road areas for tourists.

Francis Jackson is presented with The Order of the Long Leaf Pine award by Tim Aydlett and Lou Creel during a ceremony honoring Jackson at Corinth Baptist Church, Saturday.

Loading... Travis Moretti drives his Jeep through a hole that was filled with water on Ocean Pearl Road in Carova Beach.

A Currituck commissioner says the county is making "progress" in its talks with county fire officials on developing a plan for future fire protection in Currituck.

A former three-time candidate for City Council has been named the new Republican member of the Pasquotank County Board of Elections.

Currituck officials dedicated the completion of the county's $24 million reverse osmosis water plant Wednesday, saying the new facility has the capacity to serve the community for 30 to 40 years to come.

A Currituck commissioner is objecting to county officials' efforts to regulate signs used by roadside markets, saying such signs have a rich tradition in the county.

The developers who originally wanted to build an assisted living center in High Cotton have changed their minds and are now exploring another Moyock development called Shingle Landing.

What happened The state House and Senate both passed a bill that places the North Carolina Turnpike Authority within the state highway department.

Three Elizabeth City-Pasquotank schools have each been awarded $10,000 grants to upgrade and expand their library collections.

Sharon Meade , Outer Banks Curator for the NC Wildlife Resources Commission, shows her father Shelton Alexander the workings of a model tugboat built by Oscar Roberts of Aydlett during the event celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal at Currituck Middle School, Sunday.

It took a compromise along with some helpful pressure from a sympathetic commissioner, but advanced emergency medical services have been extended to Carova Beach.

Currituck County commissioners have thrown their support behind a proposal to bring a charter school to the county's Outer Banks.