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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‘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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UPDATE: Charging a toll on Ocracoke-Hatteras ferry continues to move forward in Raleigh By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH Charging a toll on the Ocracoke-Hatteras ferry is inching closer to reality, and islanders are being urged to act now to voice their opinions. On April 14, the state House Appropriations Committee on […]
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RODANTHE — Alisa Jane Cahoon Bryan, 45, of Rodanthe, passed awayMonday, April 18, 2011. Born in Norfolk, Va., she is thedaughterof Bonnie Cahoon Covey of Rodanthe and the late Gene Stanley Cahoon ofColumbia, N.C., and the stepdaughter of Pete Covey of Rodanthe. Ms.Bryan was a member of Lifeboat Community Church and a volunteer at theFood […]
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division will begin its spring schedule Tuesday, April 19, at its Cedar Island-Ocracoke and Swan Quarter-Ocracoke routes. The Motor Vessel Silver Lake was approved by the U.S. Coast Guard today to return to service on these runs, following extensive work at the state shipyard. Three sound-class ferries will […]
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Congress approved legislation on Thursday, April 14, to fund the government for the rest of Fiscal Year 2011, which includes a version of an amendment offered by Rep. Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., to block funding for approval of new fisheries catch shares programs. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) had proposed to spend $36 million […]
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Highway 12 from the Whalebone Junction Visitor Center south to the intersection of Old Oregon Inlet Road re-opened to traffic at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 15. Traffic on that section of the highway has been routed to Old Oregon Inlet Road for several months during road construction. According to the National Park Service, the […]
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Today?s blog is a roundup of short items that have been on my list to tell you about. They are: An article from a national website that a news colleague has nominated for stupidest story of the year. It names Dare County as one of the Top 10 American Ghost Towns of the 21st century. […]
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After 12 years of spasmodic progress and fiscal near-death experiences, the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras village might actually be completed before summer. That is, construction of the building, barring another setback, will finally be done. Exhibits will still take another four years or so to complete. “The museum is basically complete with […]
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The N.C. Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division has extended the amended schedules at its Swan Quarter-Ocracoke and Cedar Island-Ocracoke routes through Monday, April 18. There will be one run only at the Swan Quarter-Ocracoke route through Monday, in order to move the ferry to Cedar Island to accommodate the heaviest amount of reservation traffic. […]
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