U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle has scheduled a status conference on the consent decree that settled a lawsuit against the National Park Service over its lack of an off-road vehicle management plan at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The conference will be on Thursday, Dec. 2, at 2 p.m. in Courtroom 2 on the […]
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Bob Spangler’s 50-mile run from Oregon Inlet to Hatteras Inlet on Saturday, Nov. 27, began well before daylight – at 4:09 a.m. at the south end of the Bonner Bridge. It ended 121/2 hours later at the Hatteras Inlet Ferry Docks, just as the sun was setting in the western sky. Along the way, Spangler, […]
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FRISCO — Geraldine Meekins Tandy, 64, passed away at her residence onFriday, Nov. 26, 2010. Born on Sept. 26, 1946, she was thedaughter of the late Edison Willis Meekins and the late Audrey MaeField Meekins. Mrs. Tandy will be remembered as an active member of the HatterasIsland community including 32 years as a preschool teacher […]
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GOLDSBORO,N.C. –Angela Dawn Touchet (TSGT USAF), 40, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 25,2010, at Wayne Memorial Hospital. Angela was born in Keflavik, Iceland, on Oct. 14, 1970. Shewas agraduate of East Carolina University and was previously employed withKindercare in Greenville and earned her master’s degree in informationtechnology. Angela was currently working in intelligence fortheUnited States […]
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Continued requests by the commissioners to see financial details of the operations of Hyde County’s two ABC stores yielded a report at the Nov. 15 board meeting by Kenneth W. Chillcoat, a certified public accountant from Washington, N.C. Chillcoat’s balance sheet showed that the liquor business is about break-even. Operations show total gross income at […]
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Hyde County property owners should expect a tax increase in 2012, according to Interim County Manager David M. Smitherman. Smitherman made his comments when he attended the Ocracoke Civic and Business Association meeting on Nov. 10 to discuss the county budget in detail. When he became the interim manager in June, the budget was “out […]
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For a number of years, I was embarrassed to talk about my debilitating health issues. That’s what I called them – “health issues.” We live in a polite society, and it is uncomfortable for most of us to have our most personal bodily functions and ailments made public and certainly to speak of them was […]
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The Hatteras Island Rescue Squad has been awarded a certificate of appreciation by the National Weather Service office in Newport, N.C, for the group’s help in the rip current forecasting program. “As Meteorologist-in-Charge, I’d like to express my gratitude and that of the entire staff of the National Weather Office in Newport for your dedicated […]
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Some years ago, a 5-year-old boy was found wandering alone along the beach at Ocracoke Island’s South Point. The story he told was heart-rending. His brother, two years older, had ventured too far out into the channel and had been caught in a rip current. The father, seeing his son pulled under, had tried to save him. Neither had returned. No one […]
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At the Oct. 21 meeting, Cape Hatteras Electric Board of Directors authorized the return of $938,382 for its annual capital credit retirement. Capital credits represent each member’s ownership or “equity” in the cooperative. Patronage capital, the sum of that “equity,” can be likened to the retained earnings of a for-profit or investor-owned utility. Capital credits […]
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