| Gates, Camden leaders say they don't want Navy landing field |
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11-01-07
Charlotte Observer
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| The strip largely would serve pilots at the Oceana Air Station at Virginia Beach, Va., but probably include some planes from Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station at Havelock....(more) |
| State study group makes no recommendation on site for Navy landing field |
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11-01-07
New Bern Sun Journal
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| "We support the site in Craven County," Hugh Overholt representing Allies for Cherry Point's Tomorrow said, citing resolutions passed by Craven County commissioners on 6-1 votes. The commissioner representing the site location near Vanceboro opposed it....(more) |
| Locate the OLF at Fort Pickett, Virginia - Letter to Editor |
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10-30-07
Washington Daily News
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| I hope our representatives strongly urge the Navy to accept past Naval Secretary and Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner's recommendation to the Navy that it locate the OLF at Fort Pickett, Virginia....(more) |
| Navy's OLF search just got harder |
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10-29-07
Charlotte Observer
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| Oct. 23, 2007 letter to Gov. Mike Easley's OLF Study Group from N.C. Senator Marc Basnight, state senator from the northeastern part of N.C. As president pro tem of the N.C. Senate, he is an influential state policymaker. Full text of letter included....(more) |
| Blackwater Meeting Reveals New Projects |
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10-29-07
WTKR Chesapeake Channel 3
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| Blackwater President Gary Jackson talked about a solution to the traffic that drives down Puddin Ridge road to their gate. He hinted that if the Navy builds an OLF on the site near Blackwater it could open the door to a new access road for the compound....(more) |
| Basnight, Navy still differ on water-based OLF - Senator: Concept feasible; Navy says it's unsafe for pilots |
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10-28-07
Daily Advance
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| The powerful president of the state Senate continues to push the U.S. Navy to consider an offshore fighter jet training facility, even though Navy officials contend that it won't work and would be unsafe for pilots....(more) |
| Bomb threat fails to derail anti-OLF spirit |
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10-27-07
Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald
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| Once inside the spacious center, it didn't take long to figure out that the well-behaved crowd was 100 percent in opposition of the Navy's plans to possibly construct and operate an OLF in northeastern North Carolina....(more) |
| OLF Process Not Honest - Letter to Editor |
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10-27-07
Washington Daily News
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| I call for Secretary David Winter & Rear Admiral Anderson to go ahead and announce their decision(s) that they have already made. I call for the N.C. governor & DENR to own up to their part in this whole process and to announce exactly where they stand....(more) |
| "Yes OLF" campaign to show town's support for a Navy landing field |
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10-26-07
New Bern Sun Journal
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| Hanging on the Havelock Chamber of Commerce door was a sign saying "YES OLF." The sign is part of a local campaign to counter the idea all of eastern North Carolina is opposed to an outlying landing field for Navy FA-18 Super Hornets....(more) |
| Landing field costs - Letter to editor |
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10-25-07
Daily Press - Newport News, Virginia
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| The Japanese have constructed OLFs offshore on surplus ships. The Navy hasn't gotten the message yet -- no OLF inland, no screaming jets over our farms, schools and homes. Take it offshore....(more) |
| Duplin officials: Navy unlikely to pick Angola Bay for OLF |
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10-25-07
Goldsboro News-Argus
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| As the U.S. Navy continues its search for an outlying landing field in either North Carolina or Virginia, officials in Duplin County are still skeptical that the Angola Bay game lands are being seriously considered....(more) |
| Basnight says OLF process marred by 'untruths' |
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10-25-07
News & Observer
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| Senate leader Marc Basnight says "untruths" have built distrust between NC officials and Navy leaders seeking to build an OLF in NC. He says that the Navy's current ideas for building in the northeastern part of the state are "absolutely unacceptable."...(more) |
| Opposition targets OLF - Public to Navy: Take 'excursion' somewhere else |
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10-25-07
Washington Daily News
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| Rear Adm. David Anderson: "The only thing that discourages me is it's (the OLF) being driven as a state-versus-state issue. I think we owe our national defense more than that. We are at a point now that we have almost systematic misunderstanding."...(more) |
| Anti-OLF citizen groups form in Camden, Gates - Groups develop Web sites, seek donations |
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10-24-07
Daily Advance
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| The U.S. Navy will announce next month whether sites in Gates and Camden counties should receive further study for a practice airfield. Large contingents of citizens in both counties, however, don't plan to sit and wait for the announcement....(more) |
| Some different voices, similar OLF concerns - Bomb threat delays but does not thwart public hearing at ECSU |
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10-24-07
Washington Daily News
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| In his opening remarks Tuesday, Rear Adm. David Anderson, the Navy's top officer on the OLF project, said he wanted to "get right down to the individual" as an OLF site is chosen somewhere in North Carolina or Virginia....(more) |
| N.C. residents speak up against landing field |
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10-24-07
Virginian-Pilot
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| Seven northeastern counties - Camden, Currituck, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Gates and Chowan - have passed resolutions opposing an outlying landing field in the region....(more) |
