| Gates County rallies Against the OLF! |
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04-03-08
American Farmland Trust
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| AFT's Southeast States Director Gerry Cohn spoke at the rally, outlining the burden that would be placed on the local farm sector with the loss of land and restrictions on grain crops that attract migratory birds that might interfere with plane traffic....(more) |
| Southside residents will fight Navy plan to build jet field - Group meets on how to keep practice field out of area |
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04-03-08
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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| COURTLAND -- Nearly 700 residents of rural Southside Virginia turned out last night to plan a counterattack against a Navy proposal to build a practice field for its noisy jets....(more) |
| 650-plus turn out to fight proposed OLF in Virginia |
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04-03-08
Virginian-Pilot
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| Days after a band of committed farmers celebrated their defeat of Navy plans for a jet landing field in North Carolina, a group of Virginia residents turned out en masse to start a similar battle....(more) |
| Residents commend landing field decision |
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04-02-08
The Daily Tarheel
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| North Carolinians Opposing the Outlying Landing Field hosted a celebration to honor the people, organizations and lawyers involved in the eight-year struggle to prevent the construction of an aircraft landing field sponsored by the U.S. Navy....(more) |
| Jet practice - Jet noise should be a common burden in our common defense |
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04-01-08
Daily Press - Newport News, Virginia
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| You might say Virginia owes the Navy one for allowing the existing arrangement to be so compromised, largely by the short-sightedness of Virginia Beach's planners, developers and elected leaders....(more) |
| Ducks Unlimited Announces Winners of 2008 Wetland Conservation Achievement Awards -- Communications - Joe Albea |
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03-31-08
Ducks Unlimited
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| Joe Albea spearheaded a 7 year fight to save Pocosin Lakes NWR. This refuge has the largest concentration of waterfowl on the east coast. The Navy picked a site adjacent to the refuge for an OLF. 1/22/2008 the Navy announced it was abandoning the site....(more) |
| An American success story |
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03-31-08
Charlotte Observer
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| Washington & Beaufort counties held a "Blessed Celebration" marking the success of an utterly All-American grass-roots campaign to preserve what they saw as their way of life and persuade the Navy that their homeland was the wrong place to build an OLF....(more) |
| OLF opposition not just local effort |
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03-30-08
Daily Advance
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| a well-organized opposition must build a case to convince the federal government that Camden or Gates would be the wrong choice for the landing field....(more) |
| Hundreds celebrate at NO-OLF party - Held at Beasley's shop near Beaufort-Washington County line |
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03-30-08
Washington Daily News
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| Eight years of battle culminated Jan. 22 when the Navy announced it was no longer considering Site C (where the OLF was proposed to be in Beaufort and Washington counties) as a possible location for the landing field....(more) |
| Hundreds drawn to celebrate ruling on OLF |
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03-30-08
Virginian-Pilot
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| This night was a chance to savor, finally, the battle that reversed the Navy's decision in 2003 to make 30,000 acres of farmland in Washington County into a place for Navy jets to practice simulated aircraft carrier landings....(more) |
| Letter: OLF won't just disrupt way of life; it could shorten life |
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03-29-08
Daily Advance
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| The OLF will do more than disrupt the way of life for residents of Camden, Gates, Pasquotank and Currituck counties. It will also be detrimental to their health....(more) |
| Perdue: Fighting OLF joint effort - Lt. governor discusses Obama, health care, spending reform |
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03-28-08
Daily Advance
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| Perdue disagreed with Burr's statement that the responsibility for responding to the Navy's study of OLF sites rests with NC's governor. "I think it's critically important our office expresses opposition & the congressional delegation has a strong voice."...(more) |
| Moore & Nielsen Square-off; Perdue A No-Show At Debate |
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03-27-08
WITN-TV Channel 7
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| Both candidates, current State Treasurer Richard Moore, and retired Colonel Dennis Nielsen. agree that the Navy should not bring it's controversial outlying landing field to North Carolina if people do not want it....(more) |
| Burr: He can't get sites off OLF list - Senator: Economy not yet in recession |
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03-27-08
Daily Advance
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| U.S. Sen. Richard Burr said there is nothing he or fellow N.C. Sen. Elizabeth Dole can do to remove sites in Camden and Gates counties from the Navy's OLF list. He said responsibility for the sites being considered rests with Gov. Mike Easley....(more) |
| Navy begins steps to divest itself of land in Washington County |
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03-26-08
New Bern Sun Journal
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| The Navy started action this week to put some Washington County land acquired for an outlying landing field into public hands. The Navy also acted to cancel condemnation proceedings on some land and return it to the original owners....(more) |
| County wants deed to Navy land |
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03-26-08
Roanoke Beacon, Washington County, NC
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| Washington County commissioners dealt with two issues currently facing the county during a board meeting Tuesday [yesterday] morning new storm water rules and approximately 2,739 acres of land that the U.S. Navy acquired in 2004 for the core of an OLF....(more) |
