By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN GeeGee Rosell, owner of Buxton Village Books, heard the roaring jets, which are not unusual here on the Outer Banks. But last night, she also heard loud booms and after dark saw what she described as “red and gold” flashes of light out over the ocean. “I felt as […]
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Impact of Gulf oil spill on marine life is still uncertain By SUSAN WEST
By SUSAN WEST By SUSAN WEST Chances are remote that oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico would wash ashore in North Carolina, according to the state Department of Crime and Public Safety. If anything, beach-goers might see some tar balls on the beach, not a smothering blanket of oil choking […]
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The Outer Banks Preservation Association, a group that advocates reasonable access for everyone on the beaches of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, will have its third annual Stand in the Sand fundraiser on Friday, June 25, from noon until 8 p.m. at the Fessenden Center in Buxton. Stand in the Sand is one of the […]
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North Carolina Coastal Federal Federation has a travel guide with a conscience
Leave the crowds on the beaches this summer to visit some of the wildest wildlife refuges in the country or to watch artists in a town along the Scuppernong River work their traditional crafts. The North Carolina Coastal Federation’s annual State of the Coast Report makes it easy for tourists who are visiting the state’s […]
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Four seniors receive their diplomas at Ocracoke graduation ….WITH SLIDE SHOW AND VIDEO
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Ocracoke School can probably lay claim to having the smallest graduating class in North Carolina this year. In a commencement ceremony on Sunday evening, June 13, four seniors at the school, which includes kindergarten through 12th grade, received their diplomas. The graduates are Aaron Parker Caswell, Jordan Elizabeth Jones, […]
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Gov. Beverly Perdue delivers a message to the Cape Hatteras Class of 2010….WITH SLIDE SHOW
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Gov. Beverly Perdue, the keynote speaker at the Cape Hatteras Secondary School of Coastal Studies 2010 Commencement, urged the 51 graduates to “become the next generation of great citizens of North Carolina.” “This state and this country need you,” she told the Class of 2010 at the ceremony in […]
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Hatteras Island Food Pantry has first summer shortage
By JORDAN TOMBERLIN By JORDAN TOMBERLIN The Hatteras Island Food Pantry, a non-profit, completely volunteer-staffed organization that serves numerous Islanders and their families, is having its first annual summer food drive. The food pantry, which was started when the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge was knocked out in 1990, is very active in the winter, when […]
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Public comment period is open on proposed public boating access at Hatteras The National Park Service (NPS), in cooperation with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC), is seeking public scoping comment on the proposed construction of a new public boating access area within Cape Hatteras National Seashore, adjacent to the U.S. Coast Guard Station […]
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Island People: Mauro Ibarra was the first Mexican to call Ocracoke home
Comatitlan is a small rural village far south of the United States border. Close to Mexico City, in the state of Hidalgo, it is surrounded by mountains, and near it flows a river where groves of orange trees, mangos, bananas, avocados, lemons, and pecans grow. It is an idyllic place where little, privately owned farms […]
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Strange sea creatures show up in the Ocracoke surf
“Yuck. There is slimy stuff all over the beach!” During the last weeks of May, beachgoers and sport fishermen at Ocracoke’s ocean beaches came across an oddity that few recognized. “A strange kind of slimy grass” was how one fisherman described it. “Gooey strings resembling frog eggs” was someone else’s comment. The organisms floated in […]
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