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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“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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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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BUXTON– William Howard Sawyer, 67, died Saturday, June 12, 2010 inhisresidence. Mr. Sawyer was born in Elizabeth City and servedhiscountry honorably in the U.S. Navy as a Mess Specialist for 20years. He was, with his wife, former owner/operator of BeachMartin Buxton, helped in making Connor Lures, and worked as a butcher inConner’s Supermarket for several […]
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By CATHERINE KOZAK By CATHERINE KOZAK Twenty-one years since its formal inception, the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum will soon be the recipient of an actual shipwreck — an impressively historic one. The wreck discovered recently in Corolla, possibly as old as the 1607 Jamestown settlement, is expected to be trucked down Highway 12 to […]
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HATTERAS– Cathleen S. Styron, 87, moved on June 11, 2010, at her home inHatteras, surrounded by her family. Survivingare her daughter Brenda Freitager and husband Max; daughter RhondaRasmusson and husband Ras; son Homer Styron and wife Mary; daughterAnne Styron of the home; son Edgar Styron; daughter Sherry Styron andhusband Ray, and daughter Sue Styron and […]
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The Outer Banks has always been a place where the people’s livelihoods depended on the bounty of our land and our waters. Even as our community has grown and changed over the centuries, our reliance on our natural resources remains the same. Our commercial watermen, who bring in fresh seafood every day, need a healthy […]
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(Editor’s Note. This commentary was written by the Association of Community Pharmacists Congressional Network about HR 4119, which was introduced into the House of Representatives by Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., last year. It is co-sponsored by 31 other congressmen, including Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., who represents Dare and Hyde counties.) The Association of Community Pharmacists […]
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Dare County’s Citizen Action Committee to replace the Bonner Bridge, www.replacethebridgenow.com, is planning meetings to help the public prepare comments on the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Environmental Assessment (EA) on replacing the aging span over Oregon Inlet. The EA is the latest in years of environmental studies about the bridge, which is rated a […]
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The off-again, on-again project to replace the aging Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet is on again. The North Carolina Department of Transportation signed off on yet another Environmental Assessment (EA) on the project last month. And the conclusion is that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) believes that that new EA and the 2008 […]
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