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We’re getting back to doing the things we love after many months of staying at home. Once fully vaccinated, we make a beeline for the beach.
Oak Island, N.C., calls us to its sandy shore and fishing piers.
The 12-mile-long island is home to more birds than people. Sanderlings, gulls and pelicans patrol the expansive beach and dunes. The Town of Oak Island has a fudge shop, donut shop, ice cream parlor, a few grocery stores, a dozen restaurants and not much else. The Town of Caswell Beach, with its historic lighthouse, golf course and mix of year-round and vacation homes, stretches across the eastern tip of sun-lit Oak Island.
âIt moved pretty rapidlyâ: School building heavily damaged after fire breaks through ceiling
Fire causes total loss for Southport Christian School By Elly Cosgrove | May 7, 2021 at 6:20 PM EDT - Updated May 7 at 7:30 PM
Southport, N.C. (WECT) - A school building at Southport Christian School looks to be a total loss after a fire started in the ceiling.
âA lot of damage in the fire area â those four rooms. And it did push through the entire attic it looks like â so with the water damage and the smoke damage itâs probably unfortunately going to be a total loss, but I canât make that determination,â said Assistant Fire Chief Todd Coring of the Southport Fire Department.
Is this a cannon? Object found at historic fort in North Carolina being investigated Mark Price, The Charlotte Observer
Jan. 14 Something resembling a cannon has been found buried in the sand near historic Fort Caswell on the North Carolina coast.
The Fort Caswell Environmental Stewardship Program posted a photo of the object on its Facebook page Wednesday but did not divulge its exact location on Oak Island.
The state s Underwater Archaeology Branch is expected to offer an opinion later Thursday, according to the nonprofit program that offers students environmental field trips near the 19th-century fort. There has been a lot of chatter the last couple days about what this may be. Someone posted about finding a cannon on our beach. And many believe it does look like a cannon, which alerted the Underwater Archaeology Branch, the program said.