Brad Rich, Carteret County News-Times — EMERALD ISLE ­— The Conservation Fund, a national environmental organization, closed Tuesday, for the town, on a $3 million purchase of a nearly 30-acre tract behind the old town hall and recreation center on the north side of Highway 58 (Emerald Drive).

The fund, which has an office in the state, will hold the property and is to convey it to the town in the spring of 2018, but will allow public use of it in the interim.

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