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Night-time Bayview-to-Aurora ferry runs to end in 2015

The state Ferry Division has announced a new route schedule for 2015. George Olsen has more.

The new schedule will eliminate night runs on the Pamlico River between Bayview and Aurora. A Department of Transportation press release described those  runs as “lightly traveled” and said the decision to eliminate them were made after consulting officials at PCS Phosphate. Ferry Division Director Ed Goodwin says eliminating the nighttime runs will save hundreds of thousands of dollars.  The Ferry Division will also move a winter Pamlico Sound departure from Cedar Island to Swan Quarter, meaning both ferry ports will have three daily round trips to Ocracoke. The summer ferry traffic to Ocracoke will remain the same, with six round-trips from Cedar Island and four from Swan Quarter. I’m George Olsen.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.