SUPPLY, N.C. — A day after confirming he wouldn’t be a candidate for Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday at a public event that he’s excited that Democrats “have a lot of great options for her to choose from.”
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NORTH CAROLINA’S BELOVED SUGARLOAF ISLAND TO BE RESTORED THANKS TO LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT
Challenge goals to assist Morehead Metropolis higher climate extreme storms
WINTER GARDEN, Fla., OCEAN, N.C. and MOREHEAD CITY, N.C., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Sugarloaf Island, a small island off downtown Morehead Metropolis, NC serves as a protecting barrier for the city. But with each passing storm, Sugarloaf’s banks have quickly eroded, inflicting grave concern over the island’s potential to defend Morehead Metropolis from extreme storm harm and flooding.
Because of the assist of North Carolina Senator Norman Sanderson and State Consultant Pat McElraft, shielding downtown Morehead Metropolis can be well-looked-after. They each helped to champion $2 million in legislative funding permitting a staff of specialists to determine and design one of the best shoreline stabilization strategies for the island, balancing shoreline safety, public makes use of, and pure useful resource conservation.
In July, a partnership was introduced between aquatic restoration specialists Sea & Shoreline, the North Carolina Coastal Federation, The City of Morehead Metropolis, NC, and Quible & Associates to design a plan to revive and shield the island.
The challenge will embody wave attenuation units (WADs®) to cut back erosion and assist rebuild the shoreline, seagrass plantings to enhance water high quality, and a residing shoreline to stabilize seaside areas.
The numerous advantages of this challenge embody:
- Lowering erosion permitting shorelines to reestablish
- Enhancing the coastal resilience of Morehead Metropolis
- Growing fish habitat and fishing alternatives
- Growing ecotourism alternatives
- Enhancing seagrass and water high quality
- Stopping tree loss
- Stopping shorebird habitat loss
- Growing carbon sequestration
Based on Morehead Metropolis Mayor Jerry Jones, “Defending and restoring our island has been a precedence for this city for years and now, because of the State Legislature, we lastly have the funding to make it occur. We’re wanting ahead to working carefully with the professionals from Sea & Shoreline, the North Carolina Coastal Federation, and Quible & Associates to see this challenge come to fruition.”
Because the city has not but secured all funding required to totally full the challenge, progress can be made incrementally with the primary part of the restoration estimated at $2M. The challenge is presently being permitted and development is predicted to begin subsequent 12 months.
ABOUT SEA & SHORELINE
Sea & Shoreline, LLC is a Florida-based aquatic restoration agency that restores recent and saltwater habitats to wholesome and self-sustaining ecosystems. Providers embody seagrass restorations, oyster, coral and synthetic reefs, dredging, residing shorelines, vegetated retaining partitions, shoreline stabilizations, and wave attenuation. For extra info, please go to seaandshoreline.com, or comply with us on social media LinkedIn, Fb, Instagram, and YouTube.
ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION
The North Carolina Coastal Federation is a member-supported 501(c)3 that focuses on defending and restoring the North Carolina coast. Since 1982, the Federation has been within the discipline restoring miles of shoreline; coaching and educating college students, adults, and communities to take actions that end in cleaner coastal waters and advocating for an accessible, wholesome, productive coast. Created to provide a united voice to the necessity for long-term coastal administration, the Federation stays a collaborative, grassroots group at its coronary heart and brings collectively conventional and nontraditional organizations, authorities businesses and companies with a purpose to obtain what’s finest for the North Carolina coast and to go away a legacy of unpolluted water for future generations. The Federation has 16,000 supporters and reaches nearly 300,000 folks instantly every year. For extra info, please go to nccoast.org, or comply with us on social media LinkedIn, Fb, and Instagram.
ABOUT MOREHEAD CITY, NC
Morehead Metropolis is devoted to the well-being and security of our neighborhood by means of distinctive service with a heat coastal smile. Please go to our web site www.moreheadcitync.org for extra info and comply with us on our social media accounts: Fb, Instagram, and Twitter.
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NC Coastal Federation |
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SOURCE Sea & Shoreline, LLC
Thousands of school buildings in North Carolina, including many in Wake County, do not have carbon monoxide detectors.
On Wednesday, state schools leaders will look at how to address that. Talks are happening inside the state education building about ways to keep your student safe.
On Wednesday, we’ll get a breakdown of what it would take to install carbon monoxide detectors in schools.
State education leaders will be reviewing a report Wednesday afternoon. It shows most North Carolina schools don’t have them.
In Wake County, about 200 school buildings don’t have the devices. That’s more than a third of school buildings in the county. It would cost about $2.1 million to get them installed. It would cost $40 million to install them in schools across the state.
Nikki James Zellner with CO Safe Schools said not having these detectors puts children at risk.
“We think that we’re protected when we’re going into these establishments,” she said. “We think that our children are protected, but in reality, we’re relying on institutional standards that haven’t really been updated in a significant amount of time.”
Cooper, barred by term limits from seeking reelection this year, had been among roughly a dozen potential contenders that Harris’ team was initially looking at for a vice presidential pick. He’s been a surrogate for President Joe Biden’s reelection bid and now for Harris.
“I am going to work every day to see that she is elected,” Cooper told WECT-TV. “I believe that she will win, and I look forward to this campaign because she has the right message and she is the right person for this country.”
In making his decision, Cooper confirmed Tuesday that he was concerned in part about what Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson could do if he left the state to campaign as part of the Democratic ticket. The state constitution says that “during the absence of the Governor from the State … the Lieutenant Governor shall be Acting Governor.” Robinson is running for governor this fall.
“We had concerns that he would try to seize the limelight because there would be a lot, if I were the vice presidential candidate, on him, and that would be a real distraction to the presidential campaign,” Cooper said.
Cooper pointed to when he traveled to Japan last fall on an economic development trip. As acting governor at the time, Robinson held a news conference during his absence to announce he had issued a “NC Solidarity with Israel Week” proclamation after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack inside the country.
Cooper also said Tuesday that he informed Harris’ campaign “early in the process” that he would not be a candidate, but that he didn’t reveal publicly that decision at first so as not to dampen enthusiasm for Harris within the party.
“My name had already been prominently put into the media and so I did not want to cause any problems for her or to slow her great momentum,” he told WRAL-TV while in Supply, located about 160 miles (258 kilometers) south of Raleigh. Cooper said he announced his decision when “there had begun to be a lot of speculation about the fact that I was not going to be in the pool of candidates, and in order to avoid the distraction of the speculation.”
Tuesday’s event at Green Swamp Preserve celebrated a $421 million grant for projects in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland to reduce climate pollution. The money will be used to preserve, enhance or restore coastal habitats, forests and farmland, Cooper’s office said.
The state of North Carolina is uber-important to the Tennessee Volunteers on the recruiting trail and should only get more important in the coming years.
The Tennessee Volunteers are currently on a hot streak on the recruiting trail. They added commitments from Toombs County safety Lagonza Hayward and Derby High School tight end Da’Saahn Brame over the weekend, putting them at the No. 8 overall class in the 2025 cycle. They still have several important announcements in the near future, several from the state of North Carolina.
The Vols have been adamant about successfully recruiting the state of North Carolina for years, and as more blue-chip talent continues to come from the Tarheel state, the more Tennessee will spend its time within that footprint. They’re firmly in the race for Providence Day School offensive tackle David Sanders Jr., who ranks as the No. 2 prospect in the 2025 class. He announces his decision on August 17th, and the North Carolina native is quite high on the Vols.
Additionally, Grimsley High School quarterback Faizon Brandon decides between Alabama, LSU, North Carolina State, and Tennessee this weekend. The No. 9 prospect in the 2026 class also hails from North Carolina and is Tennessee’s top target at the quarterback position.
There are plenty of examples of future standouts coming from the state and past ones who’ve made an impact at the University of Tennessee – the school’s first 1,000-yard rusher since 2015 was North Carolina native Jaylen Wright, who was selected in the fourth round of the 2024 NFL Draft by the Miami Dolphins. Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel met with the media ahead of fall camp and discussed why they continue investing so much in the state.
“It is a border state,” Heupel explained to media on Tuesday. “For us, we believe and look at it and view it as part of our footprint. We are intentional in how we recruit that state.”
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