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🌱 How Duck leaders helped keep $173 million locked in for bridge funding

Good day Duck! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How Duck leaders helped keep $173 million locked in for bridge funding
  • Which Duck leader just graduated from the regional Leadership OBX program?

Also on today's calendar: The Sanderling Resort Hiring Event and 3 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 73 and low of 59 degrees.
  • Saturday: Mostly sunny, temps: high: 71, low: 65.
  • Sunday: Strong winds developing, with a high of 73 and low of 48 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Mid-Currituck Bridge funding stays put as leaders seek to close $800M gap (wtkr.com) — Duck’s elected leaders joined Dare and Currituck counties and nearby towns in backing a plan to keep $173 million committed to the long-planned Mid-Currituck Bridge while officials search for ways to close an $800 million funding gap. Regional transportation leaders voted 6–1 to hold the line for at least a year, meaning Duck residents still face uncertainty but no immediate loss of bridge funding.
   

• Outer Banks Chamber celebrates 11th Leadership OBX Graduation (outerbanksvoice.com) — A Town of Duck representative, Christy Hanks, is among the newest graduates of the Outer Banks Chamber’s Leadership OBX program, which aims to build stronger local leadership across the region. The 2025–26 class, honored April 15 at Captain George’s Restaurant, joins more than 250 alumni, and applications for the next cohort will open in June 2025.
   

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💬 Chatter

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  • Deer fawns are born in late spring and early summer.
    Newborns have spots and almost no scent, which is nature’s built‑in invisibility cloak. A doe will leave their fawns alone for long stretches on… (Nextdoor )
  • We receive numerous calls here at the Wildlife Commission during the growing season from panicked landowners who have “a bunch of little bees hovering over the ground.
    ” We are here to help! Believe it or not, most of the more than 500 native bee species in North Carolina nest underground. (Hopefully you haven’t… (Nextdoor )

🗞 Nearby News

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Duck

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