Lighthouse to get fix

Submitted by bniolet on October 15, 2009 - 6:43am.
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THERE'S A LIGHT: The federal government will spend $487,000 to repair the 150-year-old Cape Lookout lighthouse. By 2010 tourists may be able to climb stairs to the top of the 163-foot structure. (N&O)

NO SUNSHINE: A day after the Senate Finance Committee passed its version of a health-care reform bill, the White House and its allies were hard at work Wednesday trying to hammer-out a viable compromise. The negotiations were happening behind closed doors. (McClatchy)

SUPPLIES ARE LIMITED: H1N1 flu vaccine doses are scarce as demand has outpaced supply. Health officials are trying to encourage certain demographics to get the H1N1 shot and tamp down pundits who question the safety and necessity of the vaccine. (N&O)

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A definition of Down East

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on November 11, 2008 - 3:04pm.
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An Eastern Carolinian offered up the narrowest definition of Down East.

In a Nov. 23, 2002, article in the Winston-Salem Journal, Cape Lookout Coastkeeper Frank Tursi said the broader definition of the North Carolina region would "elicit sighs" from locals.

"While it is true that to 'upstaters' the term applies generically to everything east of I-95, to Carteret County natives the term is used to describe a specific piece of real estate that lies east between Beaufort and Cedar Island, between Core Sound and the Neuse River. This hundred or so square miles of mostly marsh includes such places as Otway, Davis, Atlantic, Bettie, Stacy, Lola, South River, Marshallberg, Merrimon and Harkers Island, which the natives consider is becoming increasingly gentrified...

He said the narrow definition would not include Ocracoke or other parts of the Outer Banks.

Earlier: Does Down East own the governorship? 

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