More than 300 crowded onto the new Harkers Island bridge Tuesday to join in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the high-rise structure and try it on foot.
HARKERS ISLAND — The innovative new bridge that opened here Tuesday represents a bittersweet change for folks in Down East Carteret County, where the harsh saltwater environment has its way.
Construction of a long-planned project to save Sugarloaf Island, the rapidly eroding, uninhabited barrier island across from the Morehead City waterfront, is officially underway.