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| The Lake Gaston Association held its annual meeting Saturday, June 12, at the Lake Gaston Baptist Church. More |
| than 30 people attended the meeting and LGA President Doug Hughs gave certificates of appreciation to Ralph |
| Domach, John Boyle and Vernon Wilson and Executive Director Moira Underwood. |
| The Lake Gaston Water Safety Council has updated its information signs to reflect the new North Carolina and |
| Virginia boating regulations. The signs also list the locations where free loaner child-sized life vests are available. |
| The life vests have been placed at nine marinas and businesses around the lake. |
| Lake Gaston has some new residents as of Tuesday morning. Approximately 7,350 grass carp were stocked in the |
| lake early Tuesday morning, 50 percent at Granite Hall Shores and 25 percent each at Songbird and Big |
| Area youths from four counties will have a chance to spend a fun day on Lake Gaston. The 18th annual Lake Day |
| for youths from Bertie, Halifax, Hertford and Northampton counties will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 19 at |
| The Brunswick County Board of Supervisors held a public hearing on the FY11 Consolidated Budget Wednesday, |
| June 2, with only four people attending. |
| For more than 60 years, American eels have wiggled their way up the Roanoke River only to be blocked here - at a |
| 100-foot-tall dam that creates electricity and curbs flooding on the Virginia-North Carolina border. |
| Althought grey skies treatened all day, thousands of people are reported to have attended the 37th annual… |
| Lives can change instantly. For Lisa Norwood, an instant happening miles away on a lake changed her life forever. |
| On June 10, 2009, Taylor Marie Vaughan, Norwood’s daughter, was celebrating the end of the school year on Lake |
| Gaston at her grandparents’ house, riding on a Jet Ski with her brother Jared and a neighbor. Vaughan fell from |
| "I was mowing my lawn when the wind started blowing leaves and sticks and the rain poured down," said Tom |
| Five members of the Army Corps of Engineers from the Corps' Lewisville, Texas. facility are working with local |
| volunteers on Lake Gaston in an attempt to test a theory… |
| The Northampton County Sheriff's Office is asking for help from the public in solving three incidents of larceny |
| and damage that occurred May 22. |
| Prepare your canoes, kayaks, fins and your swimmin’ self — and better yet — your walkin’ shoes. It’s that time of |
| year to sign up for The Crossing on Lake Gaston, an annual water event held the second Saturday in August at |
| After coming in second place in last year’s Battle of the Barbecue, Tommy Turner, of Roanoke Rapids, returned to |
| North Carolina’s secretary of transportation apparently supports Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s proposal to put |
| tolls on Interstate 95. McDonnell says he would like to put a toll at the Virginia-North Carolina border. He says it |
| would be a way of raising between $30 million to $60 million a year for repairs on the major north-south highway. |
| It’s a great weekend for travel. It’s the first official summer holiday and most people have a long weekend to look |
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