I continue to be amazed and astounded that two projects that will have enormous impacts on the future of Hatteras and Ocracoke and have been mired down in discussion, negotiation, bureaucratic wrangling, and even a lawsuit took a big step forward on the same day last week. On Monday, Dec. 20, the National Park Service […]
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UPDATE: Bonner Bridge Record of Decision now available
The Record of Decision (ROD) on the Bonner Bridge replacement, signed off on by the Federal Highway Administration on Dec. 20, is now available. Dara Demi, lead communications officer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation, says the ROD will be posted on two DOT websites next week and has not yet been posted only […]
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The hunting traditions of Hatteras and Ocracoke islands
Daybreak on Ocracoke Island, many winter mornings, finds Ronnie O’Neal heading out to one of his stake blinds in the Pamlico Sound, pursuing a tradition that his grandfather practiced years before. Earl Gaskins, Beaver Tillett, and several other Ocracokers are doing the same thing, carrying visitors from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia — some […]
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The highlights of the year on the islands ….WITH SLIDE SHOW
Island Free Press photographer Don Bowers has put together his view of the year on Hatteras and Ocracoke through his camera lens. The photos cover events large and small that are basically very community oriented. And that’s what life is like every year for islanders and our regular visitors. The slide show begins last year […]
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Record of Decision is signed on Bonner Bridge replacement project
The Federal Highway Administration signed a Record of Decision (ROD) late this afternoon that clears the way for the North Carolina Department of Transportation to move ahead with the construction of a replacement for the aging Herbert C. Bonner Bridge across Oregon Inlet. And NCDOT is not letting any grass grow under its feet in […]
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Friends at Fox¦.WITH VIDEO
The effort to restore reasonable access to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches got some national attention today — at long last. ?Fox and Friends,? the early morning news show on the Fox News cable network, featured a segment on beach access this morning. The segment was part of Fox?s ?It?s Your Land? series of […]
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Cynthia Austin Etheridge
WANCHESE — Cynthia Austin Etheridge, 84, died Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010,in Barco. Mrs. Etheridge was born in Hatteras and was ahomemakerand member of Harbor Lights Holiness Church. She was the daughter of the late Robert and Pearlie Austin Austin andthe wife of the late Ernest Chester Etheridge. Surviving are one daughter, Sharon E. Austin of […]
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Outer Banks Angling; Tuna-rrific
It’s cold outside, and Christmas is almost upon us. The local businesses are closing for the season or the holidays. The sun disappears around five o’clock and, overall, the island is quiet. However, the offshore fishing is pretty good. A mixture of blackfin and yellowfin tuna is being taken, and there are recent reports of […]
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Murray says Record of Decision on FEIS will be on signed Dec. 20
The Record of Decision (ROD) on the National Park Service’s Final Environmental Impact Statement on Off-Road Vehicle Management at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore is scheduled the be signed on Monday, Dec. 20, Mike Murray said yesterday in a meeting with local reporters. The Notice of Availability of the ROD will be published in the […]
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A net full of jelly balls: Dinner anyone?
Jelly balls, jelly bombs, cannon balls, cabbage heads or whatever you call them, the month of November found them all over the soundside of Ocracoke Island and southern Hatteras Island, rolling in on the beaches, clogging up fishing nets, even making their way up onto docks. Ocracoke fisherman Wayne Teeter, owner of the Ocracoke Crab […]
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