“I wished to see that seashore where man’s works are wrecks…where the ocean is land-lord as well as sea-lord, and comes ashore without a wharf for the landing; where the crumbling land is the only invalid, or at best is dry land, and that is all you can say of it..” –Henry David Thoreau On […]
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A $1.95 million federal grant announced today will provide 7.9 miles of paved pathway on the Outer Banks National Scenic Byway on Hatteras Island. The new pathway, a 5-foot wide concrete surface along the Pamlico Sound side of Highway 12, will run through the villages of Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, and Avon. “We are elated,” said […]
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We may have dodged the bullet that aimed to place a toll on the free Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry. Democratic Rep. Tim Spear managed to get an amendment passed to the proposed Republican budget that would have added a toll for residents and visitors to travel to and from Ocracoke — $10 was the cost being tossed […]
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UPDATE: House committee passes budget proposal that excludes tolls on Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH Ocracoke Island won a major political victory Wednesday evening when the full state House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to HB 200 that excludes tolls for the Ocracoke-Hatteras ferry. Rep. Tim Spear, a Democrat […]
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Days like Friday, March 11, at Cape Hatteras are few and far between. I got to the beach that morning just as the sun was coming up. The wind was out of the west at 25 to 30 mph, and it was really cold out there. In fact, it was miserable standing there looking at […]
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Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Historic Site has opened for the season and is also celebrating the centennial year for the 1911 station. While a major one-day event is being planned for Aug. 4 (see www.chicamacomico.net), the recognition will go on all year. There are many special “centennial items” that will be available in the gift shop […]
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UPDATE: Cape Point is now closed to pedestrians also By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The National Park Service has now closed all access to Cape Point. The Point was closed to off-road vehicles on March 18, the earliest date so far. The closure came after piping plovers were observed exhibiting breeding […]
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‘The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle.” –Henry David Thoreau I decided to complete the third part of my “Walking with Thoreau” expedition in mid-March, after the gasoline prices had sky-rocketed a few days before, so I did not feel right about asking anyone to drive me to […]
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The General Assembly passed legislation today to temporarily suspend the plastic bag ban on the Outer Banks of Dare, Currituck, and Hyde counties in the aftermath of Saturday’s tornado outbreak in eastern North Carolina. The ban is suspended until no longer than June 30, 2011. According to the Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce, the legislation was […]
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It seems as if it has been an era since my last fishing report in December. It definitely feels like it. I missed some good striper and bluefin tuna fishing, along with a lot of fishing hot-button topics. However, my mom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer just days after Christmas, and I managed to tear my […]
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