Here’s the entire article written by Kathleen Angione and featured on the NC Sea Grant website. It’s so well written that I figured it could just sit here on this blog for a few weeks. People need to read it.
Coastwatch High Season 2007:
Small City, Big Plans
-Kathleen Angione
From U.S. 264, Washington, North Carolina, looks like any [...]
[photopress:blimp_darapatech.jpg,thumb,alignright]I’ve blogged about Washington, NC since before blog was a word. There have been many harsh words thrown my way regarding my opinions. Some of it damn nasty. It’s all pfiesteria under the bridge. I’m a liberal, more Democrat than anything. A moderate radical progressive for damn sure.
My detractors will snort when I repeat [...]
The 2007 Possibly One of the Best Ideas in This Area Award goes to The Beaufort County Skills Center. The EDC, under the guidance of Tommy Thompson, is a going concern — slam-packed with good ideas for a brighter economic future for this economically-needs-a-shot-in-the-arm area.
Join the Committee of 100 today.
And, if you [...]
we heard of this idea about ten years ago… wondered how the railroad tracks could be skirted and then wondered how the people who owned houses on E. Main St. would feel with a walk way in their backyard! Ha. Glad we don’t live there any more… Now we’re just the public who will benefit [...]
Jane has a fix for us, here’s how to get the activation fee waived if you went to the Beaufort County Humane Society on September 8, 2007 for a micro-chip for your pet.
here is what she says:
Well, I got a fix from the folks at Petlink. Its not perfect, but it will work for now. [...]
Well, its not perfect, but for now, anyone who received a Bayer ResQ chip can contact Petlink.net at petlink@petlink.net to receive their free registration. If you’ve already paid, they will refund your credit card. You can also call them at 1-877-738-5465
Light pollution in historic downtown Washington, NC
Got all THREE dogs micro-chipped and rabies vaccinated this last Saturday. What a terrific bunch of volunteers! Thanks to everyone involved in this —
Now, the hitch — Bayer provided the resQ pet tracking system microchips. We were told to go to PetLink.net to register our pets and after filling out the registration information were [...]
So, why am I so pissed about the activation fee? Not because I personally have to pay it, our three dogs are worth it. I am angry because I live at the ass-end of everywhere. The illiteracy rate is around 60% according to the US Census Bureau. People in this area truly believe $8.00 is [...]
without additional payment. Maybe this should be the headline:
Bayer Health Care — Animal Health Division offers false promises and cheats Beaufort County residents by charging $11.95 activation fee for $20 resQ pet id microchips.
This is a hoax:
# PetLink™ Pet Registration Database
* resQ is supported by a no-cost pet registration database in the U.S. that [...]
No more boredom for billpayers, nope, not here in little Washington. As I paid my utility bill today right above my head, a TV blared out fox news for the entire lobby as well as the utility offices. Nice to know Rupert Murdoch unfair and unbalanced neo-con Bill O’Reilly-fied interpretation of the news is paid [...]
I used to care about this area.
The latest insult — Stan Deatherage’s hellhole of a building sits on blocks right in the middle of town — on Third St. where P.S. Jones High School once stood proudly.
It is now lashed to the ground like a mobile home. Disgusting… Deatherage first rips off the [...]