Three years ago, the Town of Oriental submitted a grant proposal for Federal Boating Infrastructure funds to build a pier for transient recr...

I thought I would post without comment a link to Tony Tharp's most recent comments about Oriental here . Bear in mind he is writing fr...

Our State Senator, Norman Sanderson, is sponsoring a bill to increase boat registration fees. If the bill passes, the new fee schedule will ...

Who would name a boat Yoknapatawpha? And why? A good brief essay on boat naming, history and literature explains .

I understand from Town Dock.net that the Town of Oriental may hold a meeting Thursday, May 17 to hear public comments on the proposed contra...

Looks like a good weekend for the Oriental Boat Show. In addition to local boaters, the harbor has also filled up with cruising sailors head...

Once again at last night's county commissioner meeting, one of the commissioners bragged that NC-20, the lobbying organization funded in...

I've been checking into the limits imposed by Neuse River Buffer, CAMA and our own Growth Management Ordinance. It looks like, if the pr...

This evening, the Oriental Town Board of Commissioners by a unanimous vote of the four commissioners in attendance approved "in princip...

Just received the following: "From: < townhall@townoforiental.com > Date: Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:49 PM Subject: Special Meeting...

Here is the drawing that Mr. Chris Fulcher submitted to the town with his proposal for the town to close South Avenue and Avenue A, in retur...

To help understand what the town is being asked to transfer to Chris Fulcher, it may help to see this 1995 survey by Dennis Fornes:   ...