The Division of Marine Fisheries office is updating its main and individual staff phone numbers. Starting Wednesday, Jan. 17, the new phone numbers will be…
MOREHEAD CITY — In the past four years, an average of ninety-two marine mammal strandings per year have occurred along the central coast of North Carolina.
I had occasion this week to tell friends the story of my maternal grandmother. She was born in 1906 in an eastern Pennsylvania coal mining town. Her family was so poor that she was sent at age 16 to northern New Jersey to clean houses for wealthy families. She gave me pictures of her from the late 1940s as the only woman in a machine shop and, later, continued to shop for her own groceries three-quarters of a mile away well into her late 80s.
PENDER COUNTY — Two applications for shellfish leases in Pender County are making their way through the approval process from the North Carolina Division of…