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Just add water? Cutter Bay, a real estate development in Stonewall has used yellow flags to outline the contour of a lagoon it plans.

Wednesday May 14, 2008

This is the time of year when lots of boats pass through. The docks at Oriental Marina are often full with transients, and there are usually two (sometimes three) boats tied up at the Town Dock.

Sometimes you can catch the Town Dock empty though… it might be just for an hour or so after boats leave for the day. Artist Laura Turgeon found the dock empty recently… and her drawing hand went to work. Town Dock – Space Available is this month’s Drawing The Town.

Tuesday May 13, 2008

Reward: $500. The report that came back yesterday confirms last week’s suspicions about two dogs being poisoned at Buccaneer Bay. Pamlico County’s Animal Control Officer Trinity Smith says it was an agricultural insecticide. PAWS – the Pamlico Animal Welfare Society — is offering a $500 reward for information that helps solve the case. Our update is here.

The Fourth Annual Art on the Neuse unfolds on June 14th here in Oriental and there’s still room for more artists. This year, $400 in cash awards are being given. Let Susan Cheatham know if you want to show your fine arts and master crafts. More info is in What’s Happening.

Also looking ahead to June… the Bow to Stern Sailing School’s Youth Sailing Camp gets going on June 9 and will be holding week-long sailing instruction all summer long, right here in Oriental. Kinda makes sense that the Sailing Capital of NC would offer sailing classes for kids, right? Lots of folks here in town have been working to make it happen; Pamlico Woodworkers group built 9 of the Optimist dinghies that will be used, and Bow to Stern is signing kids up now to sail them. You’ll find more info and registration right here.

Monday May 12, 2008

2:30pm Update:The rains from last night have gone, and we have one of those everything’s-bright-and-shiny days, with “The Simpsons” clouds scudding across a deep blue sky and more where that came from. We also have winds that think it’s March. Trash cans are blowing across the streets (Mondays being pick-up day here in the village), the trees are showing how limber they are and down at the Oriental Harbor Marina, Ross had two red flags up around noontime, which if we recall our Chapman’s, means it’s blowin’ stink. If you’re after more precise details check the Oriental NC weather forecast. The Pamlico Sound Marine Weather Forecast shows the wind forecast – high north winds for early this week.

5am Okay, did someone forget to send Mother Nature a card or even give her a call Sunday? Mother’s Day went out with a bang — there were reports of tornadic-type winds in the region. Here in Oriental, we were spared that, but got rain and lightning. The rain fell hard for a while and then, when there was a break in the storm, we went out in hopes of finding a rainbow. Didn’t see any of them, but were otherwise rewarded for looking up at the sky. Then we came back in side cos the lightning was striking a little close for comfort. See the two page photo essay here.

Friday May 9, 2008

It’s been threatening to rain here for a day now, and just may any minute. But the forecast for the weekend has that big Mister Sun smack in the middle of it. Saturday’s sunny. Good news for the Farmers’ Market, and Yoga Paddle, and Plant Exchange and the Youth Sailing Clinic (okay, well that last one is under the roof at the Village Club Pool, but still…) Lots going on and you can read about them all in What’s Happening.

Tonight’s show of Catherine Russell at the Old Theater sold out a few days ago. It’s the last show in the Pamlico Musical Society’s season. They’ll be back with more in the fall, including the Oriental Folk Fest.