Beach fires are back on seashore beaches The National Park Service has lifted its temporary ban on beach fires on the beaches of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The National Park Service has lifted its temporary ban on beach fires on the beaches of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The National Park Service has lifted […]
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Outer Banks Angling: Spanish, Spanish and more Spanish mackerel
Surf fishermen all along Hatteras Island have found much entertainment here of late. Lots and lots of bluefish and Spanish mackerel have been caught from shore. Some of the Spanish are very large and range from 3 to 5 pounds at times, which is a decent fish from shore. Hatteras Inlet and Cape Point have […]
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Employer recounts a rewarding experience with foreign students who travel to Ocracoke for a summer of work
By B.J. OELSCHLEGEL By B.J. OELSCHLEGEL I ventured down the path of employing eastern European students when the supply of local employees started running dry. Each summer, I would struggle with not enough workers or, even worse, not enough workers who would show up. I would live in dread of having to learn the date […]
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Memories of another Emily
As I write this on Friday morning, Aug. 5, Tropical Storm Emily has been downgraded to a wet and windy low pressure system, but weather forecasters are predicting that the storm may re-form into a tropical system in a day or so. If so, they are forecasting that it will pass by Cape Hatteras out […]
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Ocracoke teaching center loses jobs and seminars
Ocracoke teaching center loses jobs and seminars Ocracoke teaching center loses jobs and seminars BY CATHERINE KOZAK BY CATHERINE KOZAK With two positions eliminated from the Ocracoke campus of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teachers, administrators are still unclear what the long-term impact will be of operating with 50 percent less funding. […]
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Restoring the Blanche, a traditional Ocracoke fishing boat
Seventy-five years ago an Ocracoke fisherman, Stacy Howard, commissioned a master boatbuilder, Tom ‘Neal, to begin building him a fine new fishing boat. The work was finished by another island boat-builder, Homer Howard, who added a rounded cabin near the prow. Proud of his well-designed craft–a traditional “deadriser,” Stacy Howard gave it the name of […]
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Pulitzer-Prize winning author to speak at Hatteras Civil War commemoration
Pulitzer-prize winning author James McPherson headlines as one of three expert speakers at the upcoming “Flags Over Hatteras” Civil War sesquicentennial commemoration conference held by the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum. As a part of the Aug. 25 – 27 event, McPherson presents “The Forgotten War: Coastal North Carolina, 1861-1865.” “The capture of forts Hatteras […]
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Security screeners are at work at the ferry docks
Those yellow-shirted folks at the ferry docks asking for your identification are doing the job the Coast Guard requires them to do—security screening of a certain percentage of cars using the ferry.
Hatteras Pinfish Tournament is all about catching the biggest smallest fish . . . WITH SLIDE SHOW
“We picked the smallest fish you could catch and turned it into the biggest smallest fish!” say the organizers of the second annual Pinfish Tournament that just concluded at the waterfront in Hatteras village. Last year, Kelsey Aiken of Hatteras, a senior at East Carolina University, and his former roommate, Greg Nachman, a Richmond native […]
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Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station will celebrate Heroes Day and centennial on Aug. 4
12:00 S.S. Mirlo Rescue Story & Sea Chantey Singer John Golden Ramp of 1874 Station 1:00 Beach Apparatus Drill Starts at 1874 Station (Teams USCG Motor Lifeboat Station Oregon Inlet & Station Hatteras Inlet) 2:00 Water Rescue Demo (Chicamacomico Banks VFD Water Rescue Unit) On the Beach 3:00 USCG Search & Rescue Demo (SAR), Jayhawk […]
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