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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On a cold and windy Sunday afternoon earlier this month, I leaned over the second floor balcony at the beach house known as Serendipity and watched a steady stream of excited visitors come through the door for a house tour. They were wide-eyed and full of anticipation. Many carried cameras, ready to capture the moment, […]
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The annual Hatteras Village Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 11, was wet and soggy and foggy and cold. However, people still lined the parade route, and their spirits were high. Most stayed in their vehicles until the parade was in sight and then gamely got out and watched in their rain slickers, some with umbrellas […]
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Who would have thought that we would look forward to another summer under the consent decree? When the consent decree was signed off on by all the parties to a lawsuit against the National Park Service, beach access advocates were not happy. The National Audubon Society and Defenders of Wildlife, represented by the Southern Environmental […]
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“Bunker” reads the sign, hand-printed on cardboard, above the cooler in Ocracoke Island’s Tradewinds Bait and Tackle Shop. A fisherman comes in, wind-blown and slightly damp, and opens the cooler. Studying the heaped up silvery fish, he looks up at the gentleman behind the counter. “Are these fresh?” Receiving an affirmative “caught this morning,” he […]
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Registered voters in the southern Hatteras Island villages of Buxton, Frisco, and Hatteras will go to their polling places on Tuesday, Dec. 7, to cast a ballot in a referendum on the sale of liquor by the drink in restaurants and some other venues. If the measure passes, mixed drinks would be allowed only in […]
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By JAMES LEA Anyone who expected U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle’s consent decree to be replaced by a new National Park Service off-road vehicle management plan sometime soon was disappointed but probably not surprised by the status conference on Thursday, Dec. 2, at the Federal Building in Raleigh. The consent decree was signed off […]
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MANTEO –InaWilliams Long, 84, died Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 in Kill Devil Hills. Bornin Salvo, she was the daughter of the late Claude and Patsy GrayWilliams and was the widow of John H. Long. She was also preceded indeath by a daughter, Claudia L. Davis. Mrs. Long is survived by a daughter, Pattie Olerich and […]
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It’s official. HeathEast Family Care will close its Hatteras office on Dec. 30. Contents, including patient files, will be transferred to the remaining HealthEast clinic in Avon starting the first week of January, said Travis Douglass, vice-president and executive director of University Health Systems physicians, which contracts the three UHS doctors on Hatteras Island. […]
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Last Tuesday, I posted a blog, entitled ?The Last Beach Fire?? Quite a few comments about this were posted at the end of the blog, but the next day I had an e-mail from an Island Free Press reader who was confused by the new regulations proposed in the National Park Service?s Final Environmental Impact […]
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