By B.J. OELSCHLEGEL By B.J. OELSCHLEGEL I have been involved with only one fire in my life and it was chaotic. I was sitting quietly in a Quaker meeting when someone whispered that there was a fire in my subdivision. I raced out to The Jackson Tract. As I rounded the corner, it was obvious […]
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Sometimes, if you don?t want to hear the answer, you should not ask the question Earlier, this week the National Park Service issued a media release that said the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) had published ?A Review and Synthesis of the Scientific Information Related to the Biology and Management of Species of Special Concern at […]
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B y IRENE NOLAN It was a week of beginnings and endings for the Banker ponies of Hatteras and Ocracoke. The first milestone came on Monday, one of the first warm spring days of the year, when Ocracokers celebrated the birth of a new Banker pony in the island’s herd at the Pony Pen. The […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The Hatteras Island Cancer Foundation’s 10th annual spring dance and fundraiser on Saturday night, March 20, at the Hatteras Civic Center was billed as a “toast to 10 years of sharing and caring.” The dress was “Black-tie, Hatteras-style” for this 10-year milestone. The foundation, which assists island cancer patients […]
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When Rachel Carson published her environmental classic, “Silent Spring,” in 1962, she was referring to the silence of songbirds, quoting a line from a John Keats’ poem that reads, “The sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing.” The silence Ocracokers have been noticing recently is not that of songbirds, but of the […]
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By TOM HRANICKA By TOM HRANICKA On Thursday, March 19, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) had a “scoping” meeting at the Dare County Justice Center in Manteo. The purpose of the meeting was to gather input on issues and concerns that the public and various stakeholders thought should be addressed in the Environmental […]
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By JAMES LEA By JAMES LEA Federal district court Judge Terrence Boyle convened a status conference on Friday, March 19, on the consent decree that settled a lawsuit against the National Park Service over its lack of an off-road vehicle management plan at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The suit was filed in October, 2007, […]
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The vintage-style “Blue Room” wallpaper began going up this week in the Hatteras Island beach house made famous by the romance movie “Nights in Rodanthe.” Serendipity was saved from probable demise at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean by its new owners Ben and Debbie Huss of Newton, N.C. The couple is in Rodanthe this […]
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I?ve started to write this blog several times this week. I almost got to the end at one point. I was just waiting for some response from the Department of Interior or National Park Service in Washington, D.C. So now it?s Friday at 4 p.m. and there is no response ? or at least no […]
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A draft report posing consideration of a sweeping reduction in the citizen advisory committee system that supports the state Marine Fisheries Commission has been issued by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The draft Legislative Report on Boards, Commissions and Councils states that one 11- to 13-member advisory council would be more […]
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