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🌱 Have you seen this missing Morehead City 13-year-old today?

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In today's newsletter:

  • Have you seen this missing Morehead City 13-year-old today?
  • How UNC’s Morehead City field site is shaping future coastal scientists

Also on today's calendar: Sweet Carolina Honey Showcase @ Weeks Farm and 5 more events.

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

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Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Mostly sunny and windy, with a high of 80 and low of 64 degrees.
  • Saturday: Partly sunny, breezy and warm, temps: high: 80, low: 71.
  • Sunday: Windy; showers around, with a high of 78 and low of 49 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• AMBER Alert issued for missing NC teenager (abc11.com) — An AMBER Alert is active after 13-year-old Olivia Nicole Kimbro disappeared Thursday afternoon after leaving Morehead Middle School and walking along Bridges Street toward Highway 70. She was later seen at a Dollar Tree in Havelock and is believed to be with an adult man; anyone in the Morehead City area with information is urged to contact police immediately.
   

• Carolina marks 25 years of environmental field education (unc.edu) — UNC’s long-running environmental field program includes a Morehead City Field Site that partners with the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences, giving students hands-on experience in estuarine ecology and human impacts on local waters. The article highlights how this coastal hub connects students with organizations like the Duke Marine Lab, NC Coastal Federation, and the NC Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores while celebrating the program’s 25th anniversary.
   

📸 Around Morehead City

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Morehead City

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★ Featured events ★

    Sunday April 19
  • Sheldon Benton
    Jack's On The Waterfront, 513 Evans St, Morehead City
    2:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • 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 )
  • Just a quick post.
    If anyone has any small projects or any quick jobs they need done, let me know. I fell behind this week due to a complication at work and I just need… (Nextdoor Camp Glen)
  • Lowe's posted a job opening for Seasonal Merchandising Service Associate - Weekends Preferred in Morehead City. Apply here.
  • The TJX Companies, Inc. posted a job opening for Backroom Processing/Stocker 6AM in Morehead City. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Morehead City here.

🗞 Nearby News

Beaufort

  • Farmers comment on severe drought as they work to protect their crops (witn.com)
  • ECU names "Scream" creator Kevin Williamson as spring commencement keynote speaker (wcti12.com)
  • Weather alert for fire danger in Eastern North Carolina until early Wednesday morning (heraldsun.com)

Newport

  • Newport appoints Brenda Harris as mayor following Barber's retirement (wcti12.com)

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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 Morehead City

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