Myrtle Ruth Price

October 27, 1927 – April 25, 2017 MyrtleRuth Price, 89, of the 800 block of High Point Ave., passed awaypeacefully, surrounded by loving family on April 25, 2017. Born October27, 1927, in Avon, N.C., she was a lifetime resident of the VirginiaBeach oceanfront. Ruth was a graduate of Oceana High school and activemember of its […]

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Bag Ban Repeal Among Bills on Fast Track

Facing a key deadline later this week, legislators last week began a full-on push to move several bills affecting the coastal region, including a controversial repeal of the plastic bag ban in place on the Outer Banks since 2009. On Thursday morning, the Senate Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Committee reviewed a new environmental omnibus […]

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Commercial Fishing Resource Funding committees to meet April 26

The N.C. Commercial Fishing Resource Funding Committee will meet jointly with the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission Commercial Fishing Resource Funding Committee at 10:30 a.m. April 26 at the Department of Environmental Quality’s Washington Regional Office, 943 Washington Square Mall, Washington. The two committees are scheduled to approve a memorandum of understanding between them regarding the […]

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