A tropical depression in the southwest Caribbean Sea became Tropical Storm Sandy late yesterday and will likely be a hurricane in the next day or so. The National Hurricane Center forecast track takes the storm over Jamaica and eastern Cuba and into the northern Bahamas by Friday. The official track then curves the storm more […]
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Sandy will likely have an impact on the Outer Banks
A tropical depression in the southwest Caribbean Sea became Tropical Storm Sandy late yesterday and will likely be a hurricane in the next day or so. The National Hurricane Center forecast track takes the storm over Jamaica and eastern Cuba and into the northern Bahamas by Friday. The official track then curves the storm more […]
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Sandy will likely have an impact on the Outer Banks
A tropical depression in the southwest Caribbean Sea became Tropical Storm Sandy late yesterday and will likely be a hurricane in the next day or so. The National Hurricane Center forecast track takes the storm over Jamaica and eastern Cuba and into the northern Bahamas by Friday. The official track then curves the storm more […]
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UPDATE: SELC not pursuing efforts to hold up Bonner Bridge CAMA permit
BY CATHERINE KOZAK BY CATHERINE KOZAK A legal group has not pursued further challenge to a state permit allowing construction of the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge. The Southern Environmental Law Center, representing the Defenders of Wildlife and the National Wildlife Refuge Association, had 30 days to petition a state Superior Court judge in Wake […]
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In what may have been the party of the century, Ocracoke Island celebrated beloved native son Kenny Ballance’s retirement from his position as Ocracoke district ranger for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. After 35 years, Kenny retired in October from the National Park Service and threw a party on Oct. 19, his birthday, inviting islanders, […]
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In what may have been the party of the century, Ocracoke Island celebrated beloved native son Kenny Ballance’s retirement from his position as Ocracoke district ranger for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. After 35 years, Kenny retired in October from the National Park Service and threw a party on Oct. 19, his birthday, inviting islanders, […]
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In what may have been the party of the century, Ocracoke Island celebrated beloved native son Kenny Ballance’s retirement from his position as Ocracoke district ranger for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. After 35 years, Kenny retired in October from the National Park Service and threw a party on Oct. 19, his birthday, inviting islanders, […]
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A homecoming for a warrior…WITH SLIDE SHOW
Last week, one of Hatteras Island?s own returned from a seven-month deployment as a machine gunner with Dog Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines in Afghanistan. He is Marine Cpl. William Colin Barnett, 21, son of Charlie and Donna Barnett of Hatteras village and Denise and Michael Ziegler of Easton, Md. Though he spent much of […]
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Environmental groups take another route to stop Bonner Bridge replacement BY CATHERINE KOZAK
BY CATHERINE KOZAK Coastal Review Online Even as a federal lawsuit challenging a proposed replacement for the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge in Dare County is churning its way through a federal court, another legal action has suspended the state permit allowing construction of the bridge over Oregon Inlet to begin. The Southern Environmental Law Center, […]
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By ROB ALDERMAN
Outer Banks Angler: The heat is on Outer Banks Angler: The heat is on By ROB ALDERMAN By ROB ALDERMAN While fall weather is gradually cooling things down, the fall fishing is heating up. Reports of red drum are coming in from all directions. The big boys have moved in and are biting fairly decently. […]
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