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VoL 14, No. 8
A Shoreline Community^ Pine Knoll Shores, N.C.
August 2019
Shoreline Changes
By Lockwood Phillips
Co-Publisher, Carteret Publishing Co.
No doubt readers are somewhat surprised by the new size of this issue of The
Shoreline. You may remember from a previous article on Shoreline operations that
our layout work and printing has been handled by the local News-Times production
and printing staffs. The layout work will continue to be handled locally, but print
ing will now be done in Greenville. In an effort to explain more about this change,
I asked Lockwood Phillips, Co-Publisher, Carteret Publishing Co., to give us more
information.—Janie Price, Shoreline editor
There’s an old maxim that the only thing that is constant is change, and that
is the case with this issue and the future issues of The Shoreline. As many News-
Times readers have seen recently, the newspaper’s actual dimensions have
changed, along with some of the news and advertising deadlines.
Likewise, readers of The Shoreline are holding a slightly different publication
in its physical dimensions. At first blush the publication is more square than the
previous publications, and the overall “real estate” (space allotted for type and
photos) is a little smaller as well. I say first blush because other than the slight
physical difference from previous issues, nothing else has changed. The publica
tion still provides a community focus that is directed by your editorial staff under
the leadership of Janie Price.
These changes have been precipitated by the change in publishing facilities.
Early this year Carteret Publishing Co., the parent company of the News-Times,
discontinued printing its publications, outsourcing that operation to The Daily
Reflector in Greenville, N.C.
The decision, as noted in recent issues of the News-Times, was difficult because
the family-owned newspaper has enjoyed the convenience of being both publisher
and printer. But technology has created greater opportunities for the publishing
company to outsource the printing operations with little disruption—which has
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PKS Residents Asked to
Look For Native Orchidi
By John Fussell
Occurring within the Roosevelt Natural Area and adjacent undeveloped land
is a fascinating little native orchid, the Three Birds Orchid. In North Carolina,
this orchid is found primarily in the mountains; however, two very isolated
populations are known to occur far to the east of the mountains. One of these is
in the maritime forest on Hatteras Island, in the Buxton/Frisco area, and the other
is found in the maritime forest of Bogue Banks, at least in the Pine Knoll Shores
area.
The Three Birds Orchid is only a few inches high, and the flowers are about
one-half inch long. Being small,
the plants are very easy to overlook
except when they are in flower. The
flowers are generally white, with a
pinkish tinge. Some excellent photos
of the plants and flowers can be seen
by Googling “Three Birds Orchid
Jim Fowler photography.”
In addition to its curious
distribution in the state, this orchid
is noteworthy for its ephemeral
flowering events. Each plant flowers
about three times each season, and
each flowering event lasts only
for a day. Also, flowering events
are synchronized among a whole
population of the plants, so there
Blooming Three Birds Orchid—Waf/Ve Orchid
Conference/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
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