| Press Release - GOV. EASLEY URGES N.C. CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO ASK NAVY TO DEVELOP ALTERNATIVE OLF PROPOSALS |
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11-14-07
North Carolina Office of the Governor
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| Gov. Mike Easley today urged the Navy to take into account the overwhelming local opposition to an outlying landing field and develop alternative proposals following receipt of a report from Judge Sidney S. Eagles on the activities of the OLF Study Group....(more) |
| Navy may not reveal OLF sites this week |
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11-14-07
Daily Advance
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| Despite the buildup for an announcement this week, the Navy might not be ready to reveal Thursday what sites should be considered further for a pilot training field, officials said Tuesday....(more) |
| Lives in Turmoil - Letter to Editor |
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11-14-07
Washington Daily News
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| Twenty-one communities have been named as potential OLF sites. Lives in these communities are in turmoil. People have stopped building houses. People have stopped plans to move their elderly parents closer, scared they will have to move them again....(more) |
| Green park, or something for Camden |
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11-12-07
Washington Daily News
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| An OLF would spell economic demise. No one sees any benefit in an OLF, an OLF is an economy-killer. That's why we urge residents and officials in Camden and those in adjacent counties to continue to oppose the OLF. No good can come of it in this area....(more) |
| If noise bad for Va., it's bad here, too - Letter to Editor |
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11-10-07
Daily Advance
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| How can an OLF not be OK for Tidewater, but be OK for people in North Carolina? Do we enjoy fewer rights? Why would someone else's home, property, lifestyle, and heritage be more important than another's?...(more) |
| NO OLF Thanksgiving Supper - Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007 at 6 p.m. - Letter to Editor |
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11-10-07
Washington Daily News
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| NO OLF Grassroots organization of Washington/Beaufort counties has scheduled a Thanksgiving supper, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007 at 6 p.m at the Beasley Farm Shop, 25286 N.C. Highway 32 North, Plymouth (located at the Washington/Beaufort County line)....(more) |
| Exercise duty to question OLF - Letter to Editor |
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11-09-07
Daily Advance
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| For us to sit back and say that the OLF should happen, because the Navy says it needs one, and without holding those accountable who made the decision, would go against the very principles upon which this country was founded....(more) |
| Signs point to opposition to OLF in Camden - Group hopes to blanket county with signs opposing Navy study |
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11-08-07
Daily Advance
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| Plan of attack includes deluging state and federal legislators with letters expressing their opposition to the OLF. The group is also developing a Web page and is considering a mass mailing campaign if the Navy names Camden a potential OLF site next week....(more) |
| Poor drainage makes OLF site bad choice, officials say - Woodruff: Site 10 feet above sea level |
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11-06-07
Daily Advance
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| The Hale's Lake site includes thousands of acres of farmland. Building a Navy outlying landing field there would only worsen the existing drainage problem for area farms and homes, Woodruff said....(more) |
| Revised OLF Siting Proposals AWAY ! - Cartoon |
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11-04-07
Washington Daily News
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| New Warm 'n' Fuzzy NAVY - ...Revised OLF Siting Proposals AWAY ! - Be Mine, Assorted Alternatives...(more) |
| New OLF sites panned, old sites still viable - Havelock advocates: OLF needed 'somewhere' |
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11-03-07
Washington Daily News
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| Rear Adm. David Anderson, the Navy's top officer on the OLF project, said his "focus has been directed to the area to support Oceana," meaning the four northeastern sites....(more) |
| Governor's group studied economic impact of an OLF - Despite jobs, northeastern counties still opposed |
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11-02-07
Washington Daily News
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| Everything is not for sale. Some things don't have a price. That's our lives, because that's what this thing (OLF) will take."...(more) |
| North Carolina panel hears pros, cons about OLF sites |
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11-02-07
Virginian-Pilot
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| A Navy admiral said in a meeting here Thursday that the Marine Corps Air Station at Cherry Point does not need another OLF site, and that sites in northeastern North Carolina would be closer and more economical for jets based at Naval Air Station Oceana....(more) |
| Northeast counties oppose Navy field - Residents say rural life is at risk |
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11-02-07
News & Observer
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| Residents of Camden and Gates counties said the Navy's plans to build a practice airfield would damage the rural quality of life in the northeastern corner of the state....(more) |
| Navy officials remain quiet on bomb details |
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11-01-07
Virginian-Pilot
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| The jet, from Strike Fighter Squadron 106, was returning to Oceana from Dare County Bombing Range in North Carolina shortly after noon, said Mike Maus, a spokesman for the Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic....(more) |
| Local Leaders Fight State, Navy Plans for Practice Landing Field |
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11-01-07
WRAL
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| Leaders of two eastern North Carolina counties said building a Navy jet practice field would devastate their local economy and way of life....(more) |
