Hatteras seafood dealer aims to scale Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa By SUSAN WEST

Hatteras seafood dealer Jeff Aiken reached the Mt. Kilimanjaro summit Friday afternoon, Jan 29.  In an interview before he began the week long climb, Aiken said he wanted to use the opportunity to raise public awareness about the challenges facing commercial fishing families and to raise funds for Commercial Fishermen of America, a coalition of […]

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….WITH VIDEO AND SLIDE SHOW ….WITH VIDEO AND SLIDE SHOW The journey of Serendipity, the “Nights in Rodanthe” beach house, resumed pretty close to on schedule on Monday morning, January 18, and once the hulking building got rolling it took just 22 minutes to get it to its new space down Highway 12. People lined […]

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….WITH SLIDE SHOW ….WITH SLIDE SHOW Jim Matyiko moved Serendipity off the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, Jan. 15, but not as far as he wanted to, and not as far as project general manager Mike Price kept telling onlookers the house would go. Through a long day of what appeared to be challenges for the […]

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Cape Hatteras National Seashore is being considered as a marine protected area

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Protected Areas Center, in cooperation with the Department of the Interior (DOI), has created a first-ever inventory of the nation’s marine protected areas.  This unique, comprehensive inventory catalogs and classifies marine protected areas within U.S. waters.  Thirty-two sites, including 21 units of the National Park system […]

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John (Jack) Michael  Hebenstreit

FRISCO– Jack  M. Hebenstreit passed away on Jan. 13, 2010, just shyofhis  83rd birthday at Sentara Nursing Home in Barco, N.C. Heis survived by his wife of more than 30 years, BarbaraSatterthwaite-Hebenstreit; six children from a previous marriage:Christopher Hebenstreit, Pat Beltz, and Nancy Tallman of Lakewood,Colo., and Ellen Cuffari, Stephen Hebenstreit, and Susan Mitchell ofthe […]

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Commercial and recreational fishermen will unite to protest regulations

Commercial and recreational fishermen, two groups often at odds with each other when it comes to fisheries management, plan to march together on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C. Organized under the slogan United We Fish, commercial and recreational fishermen, affiliated businesses, and coastal community leaders will gather on the steps of the Capitol from noon […]

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