Bomb Threat Fails To Derail Anti-OLF Spirit

by Cal Bryant - October 27th, 2007 - Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald

It’s been over one month since the Navy and North Carolina officials dropped a bomb, figuratively speaking, concerning six new possible sites for an OLF (Outlying Landing Field) in the Tar Heel state, including two in Gates County.

On Tuesday afternoon, not even the threat of a real bomb could keep hundreds of citizens from attending a meeting of the OLF Study Group.

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Once inside the spacious center, it didn’t take long to figure out that the well-behaved crowd was 100 percent in opposition of the Navy’s plans to possibly construct and operate an OLF in northeastern North Carolina.

Check out the pictures on the Chowan River Patriot article about the same event.