Lady Canes fall to Williamston in fourth round of playoffs By JORDAN TOMBERLIN By JORDAN TOMBERLIN By JORDAN TOMBERLIN The Lady Hurricanes suffered a tough loss in Greenville on Friday night, March 5, in their fourth-round playoff game against the Williamston Lady Tigers. The 27-0 Tigers beat the Lady Canes 61-38, in what was, by […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The National Park Service preferred alternative for managing off-road vehicle access to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore was released to the public today. The preferred alternative is part of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement that the Park Service is required to prepare under the National Environmental Policy Act. According […]
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Finally, after a very long wait, the Park Service has made public its Draft Environmental Impact statement and preferred alternative for managing off-road vehicles on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. How long the wait has been depends on when you start counting ? and how good your memory is after all these years. The seashore […]
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The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center last week filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking a ban on gill nets in state waters. The Topsail Island facility alleges that the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission, the state Division of Marine Fisheries, and division director Louis Daniel have violated the federal Endangered Species […]
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OCRACOKE– Charlotte Nemesia Castro, 2 1/2, died Tuesday, March 2,2010. Charlotte was the miracle child of Marcy Brenner andLouCastro. Charlotteis survived by her parents, Marcy Brenner and Lou Castro; hergrandparents, Max and Barbara Brenner and Nemesia Castro; heraunts/uncles, Zory and Robert Morgan, Linda and Ira Locke, Judi andMark Coyne, Nora and Ron Forlano, Mary and […]
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Friday night’s sectional final match between the Cape Hatteras Lady Hurricanes and the Jones Senior High Lady Trojans may not have been the most exciting game the Canes have played this year—or even this week—but they scored a decisive victory, nonetheless, beating the Trojans 50-46 and moving on to the fourth round of the NCHSAA […]
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More than 20 federal lawmakers joined several thousand fishermen from around the country in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 24, in a three-hour rally supporting national fisheries reform. The first reports from journalists on the scene tabbed attendance at between 3,000 and 5,000 with fishermen standing elbow-to-elbow next to the U.S. Capitol. The rally was […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN In a letter sent this week, Marc Basnight, the powerful President pro Tempore of the state Senate and a Manteo Democrat, urged President Barack Obama to end the ‘bureaucratic” standstill” that has stalled the replacement of the aging Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet. He called the delay […]
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The long wait to see what access to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches might be like in the future is apparently almost over. The National Park Service?s notice that the Draft Environmental Impact Statement and preferred alternative for off-road vehicle use at the seashore are available to the public could be published in the […]
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By SUNDAE HORN By SUNDAE HORN Roanoke Island Animal Clinic in Manteo seems like any other veterinary practice with its waiting room full of dogs on leashes and cats in crates, its shelves of flea treatments and heartworm pills for sale, and the sounds of yips and meows coming from the examining rooms. Usually, the […]
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