U.S. Congressman Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., yesterday sent a letter to Dr. Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), opposing the agency’s recently announced National Catch Share Policy and demanding answers regarding its development. Jones called the policy “totally unnecessary for species protection.” He expressed outrage over NOAA’s announcement of a […]
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(Editor’s note: Despite common perception, the first sign of winter on Hatteras and Ocracoke is not the seasonal closing of gift shops and restaurants, the sudden drop in temperature, or even the first northeaster. Oh, no. It is the sudden explosion on your Facebook homepage when all of your friends’ statuses change from “single” to […]
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(Editor’s note: The Dare County Board of Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on the county’s 2009 draft update of its land-use plan on Monday, Nov. 15, at 5:30 p.m. in the Commissioners Meeting Room in the Dare County Administrative Building in Manteo.) During one of my nine lives as an editor, I was responsible […]
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By LYNNE FOSTER The seasonal change into fall spurs a strong yearning for comfort food, the familiar meals the whole family shared around the dinner table every night. The recently released second edition of “Seasonings,” the Hatteras Island Cancer Foundation’s updated cookbook, is filled with good tasting, mostly uncomplicated fare, such as Donna Barnett’s “Messy […]
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By PAT GARBER “Meet at Jack’s Store at 7:30 a.m.,” were the directives for a cloudless morning in late September on Ocracoke Island. At the dock behind what was once Jack’s Store, now the Waterman’s Exhibit and office for the Ocracoke Foundation, a group of five Ocracokers converged, some still yawning with coffee cups in […]
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By LOU BROWNING Each winter on the Outer Banks, many sea turtles die from a condition known as “cold stun.” This results from water temperatures rapidly dropping below 57 degrees Fahrenheit. The sea turtles cannot acclimate to these fast-falling temperatures, and they become sluggish and lose their ability to swim. If they cannot swim, then […]
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Sound-class ferries are all repaired, but routes to and from Ocracoke are now on winter schedule The sound-class ferry Pamlico, newly repaired, arrived back on Ocracoke on Friday, Oct. 29, after undergoing extensive repairs for almost a week. Since Oct. 21, ferry runs on the Swan Quarter-Ocracoke and Cedar Island-Ocracoke routes were modified due to […]
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BY IRENE NOLAN Turnout was strong in Hyde County for the 2010 General Election, as it was statewide and in Dare County. Forty-seven percent of Hyde’s 3,633 registered voters went to the polls. Statewide, the number was 42 percent of registered voters, and in Dare County, it was 45 percent. Democrats fared better in Hyde […]
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By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH Anicipation had been building for weeks on Ocracoke. I hadn’t seen this much excitement among my peers for Halloween since the sixth grade. It began in August when my neighbor, Lyn Taylor, began talking about what she and her husband, Jamie, were contemplating for costumes. I had to […]
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By IRENE NOLAN Dare County’s 26,758 registered voters came out in good numbers yesterday for a mid-term election that has excited voters across the nation who clamored for change – mostly in Washington, D.C., but also in some state and local races. Though some commentators had predicted a lackluster turnout, that didn’t happen in North […]
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