Currituck County News

Local officials claim Navy jet flyovers in Camden and Currituck counties are increasing, and Currituck Commissioner Gene Gregory thinks he knows why: The Navy is testing residents of the two counties' tolerance for jet noise, he says, so that it will be easier later on to choose the Hales Lake area of Camden for its proposed outlying landing field.

Visitors peruse the artwork on display at the Currituck County Arts Council Gallery at the Moyock Public Library, Friday night.

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.

A Currituck County man has been charged with multiple counts of statutory rape and indecent liberties with a minor after he was arrested in Pennsylvania.

Officials in a coastal North Carolina county have declared a state of emergency after a nor'easter eroded oceanfront dunes and flooded several homes and cropland.

Residents of the Bunker Hill Road area in Camden County woke up on Friday morning to find there was no way out of their neighborhood, according to County Manager Randell Woodruff.

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.

3:36 p.m. update: Lighting struck a house on Adelade Court near U.S. 17 Business just north of Elizabeth City with minor damages.

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

Descendants of William Crawford Dawson Sr. Betsy Dawson, Patricia Bailey Chenault and Nancy Brass Dawson Rascoe, look on as Peter Rascoe describes the features of a hand-painted N.C. state seal that was once part of a Confederate battle flag, at Museum of the Albemarle, Monday.

A proposed YMCA in the Maple area will cost the county $12 million and should be open no later than December 2011, if not sooner, Currituck County officials said Monday.

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.

Members of the public listen to a speaker during a town hall meeting hosted by the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus in the Elizabeth City State Universitya s K.E. White Center, Thursday.

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.

Unemployment in the Albemarle area fell slightly in September, according to figures released by the N.C. Employment Security Commission.

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.

For the month of September, McDowell County reported a jobless rate of 14.1 percent, which is almost unchanged from the previous month.