Sneads Ferry Traffic Just Got Worse

As if traffic wasn’t already bad enough In Sneads Ferry, it just got worse !!

1.  Wheeler Creek Bridge will be closed about Friday of this week, it was supposed to have been finished last Friday but pilings had to be driven deeper, support beams added under the bridge to the new pilings, etc., and then more pavement needs to be added, so we will have to drive around from Sneads Ferry Road for about another week.

2.  A sewer line is still being installed on Hwy 172 (from SF Rd. to Hwy 210) so occasionally that is down to one lane.

3.  Although the Sneads Ferry Community Council has asked the Base to open both of the ingress lanes into the Base, Military traffic just gets worse and worse every morning and every afternoon ….

And now …. NCDOT is working on patching holes and widening Hwy 210 from Hwy 172 to the Dixon Elementary School Rd.  They will also lengthen the LEFT turn lane from Hwy 210 onto Hwy 172. I drove by this morning and Hwy 210 was down to one lane between Hwy 172 and Dixon Elementary.

Also, at some point in the future, once funded, they will come back, survey, move utilities, etc and add a RIGHT turn lane from Hwy 172 onto Hwy 210.  

According to the NCDOT District Office, the project (not including the addition of the right turn lane from Hwy 172 onto Hwy 210) is supposed to be finished by Nov., 2010 !!

Jeeze Louise !!!!  November is 7 months away and if the RIGHT turn lane is funded, I suppose that will take us into next year. 

Tim Supple 

910-327-2707

Sneads Ferry, NC.   Est. 1728

www.sneadsferrynorthcarolina.com 

(Home of the Village e-news; just doing my part for my Village)

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Wright-Gaddy Engaged

Wright-Gaddy - The Star Online : The Newspaper of Cleveland County


Lacey Shea Wright, the granddaughter of Thomas and Janice Lewis of Sneads Ferry and the late William “Dub” and Stella Wright of Shelby, is engaged to marry Joshua Andrew Gaddy June 12, 2010 at Double Springs Baptist Church.

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Roadwork begins on N.C. 210 South of Stones Creek Bridge Towards NC 172

Roadwork begins on N.C. 210 - Jacksonville Daily News

Beginning 9 a.m. today roadwork will begin on NC 210 South of Stones Creek Bridge towards NC 172 involving milling and patchwork. Expect delays as traffic will be reduced to 1 lane. This short work is part of a larger project.

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Friction sparks House 15 race

Friction sparks House 15 race - Jacksonville Daily News

As the Tuesday, May 4, 2010 election draws near, there are several issues involving campaigns and differences of opinion that separate the candidates.

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Golf tournament held to honor Cindy Kay Strope at North Shore Country Club

Golf tournament held to honor Strope - Jacksonville Daily News

The Jacksonville Jaycees is sponsoring a golf tournament at the North Shore Country Club on May 22, 2010 establishing a scholarship to honor Cindy Kay Strope (local woman with many ties in our local community including being the wife of a school principal) who died recently.

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More than 2,000 hit polls early at Jacksonville Commons

More than 2,000 hit polls early - Jacksonville Daily News

2,192 had voted on the one-stop machine at Jacksonville Commons before end of early voting on Saturday. Area voters can vote on: U.S. House and Senate candidates, 1 seat in North Carolina's house of representatives, 2 seats on the Court of Appeals, 4 on the Board of Education, and  referendums of  quarter-cent sales tax, and incorporation of the village of Sneads Ferry.

Voting for those who did not participate early is Tuesday between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

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Letter to the Editor: Welcome to youth soccer in Onslow County, NC!

To the Editor:

“Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive.” Welcome to youth soccer in Onslow County, NC!

Let us all ban together and view the beheading of our volunteers as they wrangle each other in the mud pool scrambling to the highest wrung on the food chain ladder. “He’s this, …… she’s that, …… they didn’t do it, …… they’re bad, ….. etc., etc.”

HELLO ?????? …….. It’s all about the kids! Really? Then why is the Eastern Carolina Soccer Association President threatening to shut down a club’s fields IF a particular man (no criminal history or violations) should attend a soccer game at that club’s fields? Yes, she’s going to punish everyone’s soccer playing children because she and the upper soccer aficionados do not have legal footing to stop an elderly law abiding, disabled US citizen, Viet Nam veteran, past local soccer club president from watching games that his nieces/nephews or friends play, on public property.

I, Tim Rose, Dixon Soccer Club President from 03’ – 09’, have been found to be in violation of a NC Youth Soccer Association Risk Management rule. Although the violation is 1/10th the violation of another club’s action here in Onslow County at the same time frame, I am suspended from participating in all NCYSA activities and events for 3 years. So much for “we are all fed from the same spoon” (the other soccer criminal received a slap-on-the-wrist). Yes I have “viewed” soccer games recently and will continue to enjoy youth sports competition. No I will never be a Coach, team manager, club officer, hot dog selling soda pushing field lining garbage emptying volunteer or score keeper in any NCYSA event ever again. If I wanted such, I would sit at home adhering to my 3 year suspension. I made a decision. I’m no longer a member!

To the ECSA and NCYSA, “not until I am charged and convicted of some crime against society will I ever surrender my freedoms.” You spread your terrorism through out youth soccer by yanking on the parent’s emotional chains and expect these free thinking Americans to respect you? Please put forth the document that each single member of your organization signed whereas they relinquish their freedom and constitutional rights to your soccer association. Your obvious goal to vilify me is your display of hypocrisy. The United States Soccer Federation determined upon appeal that your initial sanction in my case was “arbitrary and capricious” (abusing the possession of power) and ordered a re-hearing regarding the penalty phase. I state the foregoing in the name of transparency. Pull your heads out of the sand! Once you accomplish that take your tyranny and draconian practice and put it where the sun won’t shine!

The overwhelming majority of Onslow County soccer people participating now are not aware of prior NCYSA/ECSA foolishness and frankly “don’t care”. They want their young players to have fun, learn and excel. They practice “N.I.M.B.Y.” (not in my back yard) and will not be concerned until the proverbial ax is swung at them or their child. If and when that happens, it might be “too much gone by, too late” for any help they might seek for some seemingly small rule infraction.

Never have I ever experienced or witnessed such behavior as displayed by NCYSA / ECSA Officers. I would suggest that any business or other entity wishing to support youth sport do so other than NC Youth Soccer and Eastern Carolina Soccer Association.

Proud American, Proud USN Viet Nam Veteran, Proud single custodial Father,
Proud Soccer Dad, Proud Volunteer …… enjoying the freedom to express my opinion!

Tim Rose