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Celebrating 20 years: Albemarle Family YMCA marks a milestone
The Albemarle Family YMCA will offer free membership to teens for three months this summer as the health fitness organization celebrates its 20th year in Elizabeth City. Jane Snyder, executive director of the Albemarle Family YMCA, said details about the free membership program will be forthcoming but noted it’s expected to start June 1 and continue through Aug. 31. Snyder made the announcement of the program during a ceremony Wednesday...
Under the Currituck Beach Lighthouse
We climbed slowly the tower’s 220 steps not long before sunset, surrounded all the way up by its 650,000 bricks laid in one-to-three common bond, led by 19-year veteran Currituck Beach Lighthouse Site Manager Meghan Agresto. “You can touch anything metal but nothing glass,” she said as she installed my wife, Ann, and me inside of the hollow first-order Fresnel lens at the 162-foot pinnacle. The lens was made in France and tested first in Parisian tunnels, shipped to New York and reassembled and tested again on Staten Island, then shipped down the East Coast. It was brought into Currituck Sound by way of the Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal, all the glass and brass parts that, when assembled, would make up this polygon measuring six feet in diameter and standing just shy of 10 feet tall.
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