From hamptonroads.com
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BODIE ISLAND
Nearly every corner of the Bodie Island Light Station site will soon be buzzing with restoration projects.
Three historic buildings that were on the oceanfront off the highway were relocated last week to the station’s entrance road in preparation for rehabilitation.
And workers this month [...]

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From WRAL.COM
MANTEO, N.C. — The federal budget includes $3 million to restore the deteriorating Bodie Island Lighthouse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk reported Thursday that the money is the estimated amount for a complete restoration of the 1872 lighthouse structure north of Oregon Inlet.
Bodie Island light was damaged when the National Park [...]

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From hamptonroads.com:
A sad depiction of the collapsed New Canal Lighthouse may have made
the New Orleans landmark a winner. But unfortunately for the Outer
Banks, it also makes the Bodie Island Lighthouse a loser.
One of the 12 semi-finalists in the JELD-WEN Reliable Lighthouse
Restoration Initiative, the New Canal has been chosen as the one most
deserving of free windows [...]

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Thanks to all who voted for Bodie Lighthouse in the Jeld-Wen window and door repair contest.  Your votes paid off, because Bodie is one of 3 finalist in the contest.  This is great news for a lighthouse badly in need of repairs.
The link to the contest site is below:
http://www.jeld-wen.com/lighthouse/index.cfm
They also have a video about each [...]

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From hamptonroads.com:
Year after year, the Bodie Island Lighthouse has been in line to get funding for a complete restoration. Each time, it has been shoved aside.
Shut out once again in the federal budget that was signed by President Bush on Dec. 26, the 136-year-old tower is showing its age, with corroding metalwork, broken windows and [...]

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From hamptonroads.com:
The base of the Bodie Island Lighthouse
will open to the public Tuesday for the first time in three years,
thanks to a $100,000 emergency restoration project recently completed,
the National Park Service announced Friday.
The lighthouse closed to visitors in 2004 after chunks of cast iron
fell from the balcony and top window, the park service said [...]

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bodie–6, originally uploaded by cdawson.
Here is a picture I wanted to share with everyone.

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