The National Park Service invited the public to comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on its off-road vehicle plan at a series of five meetings this week. They came and they spoke. They spoke solidly in favor of more access than the Park Service is proposing in its preferred alternative, Alternative F, in the […]
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Night driving prohibited on beaches from May 1- Sept. 16
Beginning May 1, all Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches are closed to off-road vehicles (ORVs) between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., in accordance with the court ordered consent decree. Enforcement of the restriction will begin at midnight on Friday, April 30. The 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. prohibition on beach driving […]
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County’s leaders and working watermen get an update on fisheries issues
Fishermen and county commissioners exchanged information with state officials about a host of fisheries issues at the Dare County Commission for Working Watermen meeting April 21. State officials attending the meeting included North Carolina Rep. Tim Spear, Division of Marine Fisheries director Louis Daniel, and Wildlife Resources Commission director Gordon Myers. Chris Dillon, special projects […]
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Beginning May 1, the National Park Service Outer Banks Group will be providing scheduled public programs for the spring at Wright Brothers National Memorial, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Cape Hatteras National Seashore. These spring program schedules will run through May 27. Learn about the Wright brothers, their flight experimentation and success at the […]
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Portsmouth Island Homecoming 2010: The island lives – even if for only one day …WITH SLIDE SHOW
By ANNE BOWERS By ANNE BOWERS The now abandoned island of Portsmouth, which is accessible only by a 20-minute boat ride from Ocracoke or by air, celebrates its history once every two years by hosting a gathering of its surviving former residents and their descendants. About 500 people traveled from as far away as California, […]
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Mildred Sutton Tice
FRISCO– Mildred Sutton Tice, 72, died Monday, April 26, 2010 in a Chesapeake,Va., hospital. Mrs. Tice was born in Somers Point, N.J., thedaughter of the late Carl and Edith Verna Mason Sutton. Sheworked as a cashier for Food Lion and loved playing Bingo. Besides her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband,Howard Edmond […]
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An important week for beach access advocates â and other notes
The week of April 26 will be an important one for all who support access to the beaches of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The National Park Service is conducting a series of public meetings on the Outer Banks and in Raleigh and Hampton at which the public can speak or submit written comments on […]
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Owners explore opening part of the Frisco Pier for business this summer
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN If you have noticed a lot of activity in recent days around the Frisco Pier, it’s because the owners, Tod and Angie Gaskill, are working on fixing up the pier house and are hoping that they can open part of the structure for business this year. This week, Angie […]
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First vandalism of nesting season results in buffer expansion
Two suspects have been apprehended in an investigation by National Park Service rangers into the fifth deliberate vandalism act of the 2010 season to resource protection areas within Cape Hatteras National Seashore. They are Daniel Hunt, 28, from Maryland and a local resident Brian Tillett, 34, of Rodanthe. The two men have been charged with […]
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‘Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be!’ Shakespeare comes to Ocracoke
By SUNDAE HORN By SUNDAE HORN If you’ve been in the neighborhood of Books to Be Red on Ocracoke Island lately, you may have seen some local folks cavorting about on the Live Oak stage, exclaiming in iambic pentameter such lines as “The course of true love never did run smooth” or “What angel wakes […]
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