A standing room only crowd of about 125 people showed up at the meeting of the Dare County Board of Commissioners on Monday evening, June 15. They came to speak at the meeting?s public comment period about the beach access issues on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Twenty-five folks stepped up to the microphone to […]
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Rainbows over Hatteras ¦ WITH A SLIDE SHOW
By late afternoon on Friday, June 12, it looked as if Hatteras Island would get a really big thunderstorm. The National Weather Service had posted a severe thunderstorm watch, and radar showed big blobs of red ? storms across the sound. The thunder echoed as the sky grew darker, and the system moved west toward […]
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Replacing the Bonner Bridge may be moving forward again — just maybe
Dare County?s Citizens? Action Committee to Replace the Bonner Bridge met for the first time in almost a year on Wednesday, June 10. And, for the first time in quite some months, the committee and county officials were energized and hopeful that the effort to build a replacement for the aging Herbert C. Bonner Bridge […]
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A conversation with the park superintendent
Cape Hatteras National Seashore Superintendent Mike Murray is the most accessible park leader that I have covered in 18 years of reporting news on Hatteras and Ocracoke. You may agree with the actions he takes or the direction in which he takes the seashore ? or you may not. Some think Murray is held hostage […]
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More ramp closures put the big squeeze on Hatteras beaches
Fewer than 10 miles of beach on Hatteras Island are now open to off-road vehicles. That?s fewer than 10 miles on the island?s more than 50 miles of shoreline. And much of the beach that is closed to ORVs is also closed to pedestrians. These are resource closures ? areas that are closed to protect […]
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More on the Memorial Day weekend
After I posted my May 26 report on the Memorial Day weekend, I got comments ? online and in conversations — that are worth noting. Several of the folks who commented agreed that the weather was beautiful and the beaches were not overly crowded. However, they think the beaches aren?t crowded because there are not […]
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The Weekend Report
The good news about the Memorial Day weekend report is that there really is not a lot of news. And this is really good. The weather cooperated ? only spotty, brief showers with light to moderate southeast breezes. A lot of visitors came to Hatteras and Ocracoke, and, according to National Park Service rangers, they […]
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A conversation with an island
It?s time for a break in blogging about heavy but important issues facing our islands. Today, I am blogging about a book that should be on your summer reading list. It hasn?t felt like summer on Hatteras and Ocracoke this week with the rain, clouds, strong and gusty northeast winds, and heavy seas. But […]
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Why recreational anglers think they deserve game fish status for red drum and speckled trout
By all accounts, the bill introduced in the state House of Representatives last month that would give game fish status to red drum and spotted sea trout is dead in the water. The bill, H918, Designation of Coastal Game Fish, would make these two popular species of fish off limits to commercial fishermen and would […]
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Getting rid of the ubiquitous plastic bags â an idea whose time has come
Sen. Marc Basnight had a really good idea. And then he had an even better idea. Several weeks ago, Basnight, a Manteo Democrat who is President Pro Tempore of the state Senate, gathered some community leaders at his family?s restaurant, The Lone Cedar Caf? on the Manteo Causeway. Basnight was rallying support for a bill […]
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