Currituck News

Dunes on the Currituck Outer Banks damaged by the recent nor'easter are expected to recover naturally and are not likely to qualify for federal disaster assistance.

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.

Area farmers seem to be weathering the recession OK. Now if the ground will just dry from last week's nor'easter so they can get back in the fields and plant wheat and harvest their remaining soybeans.

Flood waters had receded in most areas of the Albemarle Saturday, though a few trouble spots remained.

A number of significant public and private development projects are moving forward in Camden in spite of the recession, members of the county's first-ever economic commission were advised last week.

The Currituck Board of Commissioners has agreed to release an additional $29,000 in county funds to complete renovations to the fire station in Powells Point.

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.

Rain continues to fall today but is forecast to lighten. At 10 a.m., a New Bern city worker told the Sun Journal that thus far no roads have been closed.

Several streets in Elizabeth City were flooded this morning as a November nor'easter churned over northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia.

Despite an economic recession that made this past legislative session one of the most challenging ever, area lawmakers say they still managed to find money for critical needs and adopt legislation important to constituents.

Local volunteers are ready to collect simple shoebox gifts personally packed by children, families, and individuals here in Elizabeth City and surrounding areas.

North Carolina business leaders are cheering three of their heroes. The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame inducts a Raleigh restaurant entrepreneur, a Winston-Salem banker and a former Raleigh mayor during a celebration Thursday in Charlotte.

After its last public library closed in 1957, the ribbon was finally cut and the doors opened on a brand new Moyock Public Library on Wednesday afternoon.

We haven't hit the top of seasonal flu season yet, and one part of our area is out of flu vaccines.

Moyock restaurants or residents that cause sanitary sewer blockage or overflows because of fat, oil and grease, or FOG, deposits will now pay a hefty fine of up to $5,000, thanks to a new ordinance passed by the Currituck County Board of Commissioners at their meeting last Monday.

Area school districts pass out hundreds of report cards every year, but on Thursday, the tables were turned.

Officials from the 10 counties in the Albemarle Mental Health Center area plan to meet in the next few months to decide the future of mental health service management in the region.

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.

Published: Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 4:29 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 4:29 p.m. If you stay in a hotel in Wilmington, part of your room tax helps pay for the Wilmington Convention Center, which is under construction downtown.

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