By all accounts, Memorial Day weekend was an encouraging start to the summer season. The weather was good overall ? great beach weather on Saturday and Monday and a few showers Sunday morning into early afternoon. Tropical Storm Beryl off the southeast coast increased the seas and the rip current threat, but did not cause […]
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Lauren Heesemann, a NOAA research coordinator in Manteo, and several friends went on a beach walk Saturday on Pea Island. They discovered the boat on the beach just south of the Pea Island Inlet, formed in August by Hurricane Irene. “We didn’t know exactly what it was at first,” Heesemann said today. However, they looked it over and read the contact information on it and talked to staff at the Coastal Studies Institute in Manteo. Later this week, staff from the institute will deliver the Yarmouth Clipper Ship to students at Cape Hatteras Secondary School of Coastal Studies, who will break the good news to the Maine fourth-graders and help them get their project back to the Gulf Stream. Molly Smith didn’t get the news until this afternoon that the boat had been found and predicted the students would be ecstatic. “They’ll be so excited to hear it was found by good folks who will take care of it,” Smith said. We’ll keep you updated on theYarmouth Clipper Ship’s voyage back to sea. FOR MORE INFORMATION To read about the project of the Yarmouth students, go to https://thevirtualthinktank.wikispaces.com/Educational+Passages
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN A group of fourth graders in Yarmouth, Maine, embarked on an ambitious project earlier this year to customize a small sailboat equipped with a GPS unit, drop it into the Gulf Stream off Hatteras, and track its journey. The goal of the school program, called Educational Passages, is to […]
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UPDATE: Beryl is heading back north and will bring heavy rain to the Outer Banks
Tropical Storm Beryl, the second named storm of the season, formed late Friday southeast of Cape Lookout, headed south and southwest, made landfall near Jacksonville, Fla., on Sunday night, dropped a lot of rain on Florida and Georgia Monday and today, then looped around back to the north and northeast. The National Hurricane Center predicts […]
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Second named storm of the season may take another swipe at the Outer Banks
Subtropical Storm Beryl, which formed late Friday southeast of Cape Lookout, moved slowly to the southwest today toward the Georgia/Florida coast. At 8 p.m. tonight it was located off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina and was moving southwest at 6 mph. The winds had increased to 50 mph and the barometric pressure had […]
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Ramp 27 closes to ORVs on the eve of holiday weekend By IRENE NOLAN
Ramp 27 closes to ORVs on the eve of holiday weekend By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The National Park Service closed Ramp 27 between Salvo and Avon on Friday, May 25, on the eve of the Memorial Day Holiday Weekend because of shorebird breeding activity in the pre-nesting area just north […]
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Island Cooking: Adventures with yogurt and Middle Eastern spices
Yogurt has had a recent meteoric rise in popularity in this country. Once the favorite food of “hippies” and “health food addicts,” it is now eaten by just about everybody. I think it has a lot to do with the introduction of Greek yogurt. The yogurt we were used to had a slippery and, to […]
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The cloud over Hatteras that had everyone buzzing ….WITH SLIDE SHOW By IRENE NOLAN
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Hyde County budget call for six-cent tax increase By CONNIE LEINBACH
By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH A $600,000 shortfall in revenues to cover expenses has forced the Hyde County commissioners to propose a tax increase of six cents for the 2012-13 budget year. Mazie Smith, Hyde County manager, presented the budget plan at the May 21 commissioner’s meeting and stressed that her department heads have […]
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30 boats fished in Hatteras Village Offshore Open; winners took home $94,265 By IRENE NOLAN
Despite significant challenges from a shoaled-up channel in Hatteras Inlet and rough seas, 30 boats signed on to compete in the 18th annual Hatteras Village Offshore Open, the first event in the Governor’s Cup billfish events. The winners took home $94,265 in prize money. The event ran from Wednesday, May 16, through Saturday, May 19. […]
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Saving the shoreline at Springer’s Point on Ocracoke ….WITH SLIDE SHOW By CONNIE LEINBACH
About 20 volunteers were happy to do something for Ocracoke by planting marsh grasses Friday, May 18, at Springer’s Point on Ocracoke for a Coastal Land Trust project. Springer’s Point, at the end of Loop Road, is part of a 122-acre nature preserve owned by the trust. About 300 feet of eroded coastline is the […]
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