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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RODANTHE –TimothyJohn “T.J.” Cary, 49, passed away at the Outer Banks Hospital in NagsHead on Monday, Nov. 22. T.J. was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., toGeorge and Geraldine Loughlin Cary. He worked in Richmond,Va.,as an electrician for Virginia Power (VEPCO) before retiring to theOuter Banks, where he became manager of the Rodanthe Pier. T.J.was also an avid […]
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The National Park Service has relented on some of the buffers to protect shorebirds during the nesting season in its recently released Final Environmental Impact Statement. But it hasn?t budged an inch ? so to speak ? on the 1,000-meter buffers to protect unfledged piping plover chicks. Buffer distances were reduced from the draft EIS, […]
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The initial response to the National Park Service’s Final Environmental Impact Statement on ORV regulation on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore has been muted so far. That is predictable when the document involved runs more than 1,000 pages and comes in two volumes. The main document runs more than 700 pages with 427 pages of […]
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The National Park Service has released the Final Environmental Impact statement (FEIS) for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Off-Road Vehicle Management Plan. The final plan/EIS evaluates two no-action alternatives and four action alternatives for managing ORV use and identifies their potential environmental consequences. The Park Service has chosen Alternative F in the FEIS as its […]
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WANCHESE –HudeanRandolph O’Neal, 76, passed away at his residence on Saturday, Nov. 13,2010. A native of Manteo, he was the son of the late WarrenR.O’Neal and Pearl Daniels O’Neal. He is survived by his wife,Jennie Lee O’Neal, of the residence. Mr. O’Nealhad adistinguished career in the U.S. Coast Guard, retiring as a ChiefWarrant Officer (CW04). […]
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By CATHERINE KOZAK
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., spent the better part of a day last week on the Outer Banks for what was billed as an ?information session? on replacing the Bonner Bridge. It was yet another step in a concerted effort by North Carolina?s congressional delegation and local officials to bring two agencies together, so the […]
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When my late father was 24 years old, he returned to Hatteras from Long Island, New York. He returned because the Great Depression had left him jobless and standing in a bread line. He came back home and he moved back in with his parents. He returned so that he could have a place to […]
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