For a tourist town, bathrooms are a big deal. For a tourist town surrounded by water, public access to the water is a necessity. For a tourist town dependent on the cleanliness of that water, stormwater runoff from the street should not be flowing into that water. Somehow, what seems like obvious planning details have […]
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GREENVILLE, N.C. — William Dorsett Ward, 57,passed away Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, after a two-year battle againstcancer. He fought the disease with determination, dignity, andwit and with love and support of his family, close friends and, most ofall, faith in his Lord. A memorial service will be held Friday at 11 a.m. in the Wilkerson […]
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Beginning Oct. 1, coastal recreational fishermen can lose their fishing licenses for violating fishing rules. Recreational fishermen will fall under the same license suspension, revocation and reissuance schedule as commercial fishermen, and that schedule will change Oct. 1, as well. “Fishermen will face longer license suspensions for most violations,” said Louis Daniel, director of the […]
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The pipeline dredge Richmond arrived in Ocracoke’s Silver Lake Harbor early in September and began maintenance dredging Sept. 7 of the Big Foot Slough off Ocracoke, according to Hank Heusinkfeld of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who contracts dredging operations in North Carolina. Hatteras Inlet has been plagued with heavy shoaling (or sand buildup) […]
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Daniel Robert Moore, 75, of Sewell, N.J., passed away on Monday, Sept.17, 2012. He died sitting in his chair on the beach on Hatteras Islandwith his fishing line in the water. He had been a resident of Sewellsince 1962. Mr. Moore graduated from Glassboro State College and served in theUnited States Marine Corps. Devoted husband […]
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The U.S. Coast Guard made two rescues on Saturday, Sept. 15, in eastern North Carolina. One was early Saturday morning near Swan Quarter, and the other was Saturday evening off Cape Hatteras. In the Saturday evening incident, The Coast Guard rescuers came to the aid of two kayakers stranded on a sandbar east of Cape […]
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Somewhere around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13, under a large party tent in the backyard of the historic Seaside Inn, Ernie Foster stepped onto the stage and grabbed the microphone. Just minutes earlier, an unexpected late-summer storm had unleashed torrential rains, forcing the 80 or so guests who had gathered for the first event […]
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Travelers using the Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry route could encounter delays, load weight restrictions, and possible suspensions due to extreme shoaling of the Hatteras Inlet channel for the immediate future. The problems could persist for several weeks. A threat of severe weather when a cold front moves through Tuesday, wind-driven tides, and the narrow channel situation […]
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Greenville – Mr. Bobby Durr, 44, passed away Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012 at his home. A memorial service will be held at a later date on Hatteras Island. Bobby was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., lived on Hatteras Island for anumber of years, and lived in Greenville for the past 20 years. He worked for UPS for […]
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Some of the beaches on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore will reopen to night driving at midnight on Sunday, Sept. 16. From Sept. 16 through Nov. 15, driving will be allowed only on ORV routes without resources closures or portions of those ORV routes. The nesting season for shorebirds and colonial waterbirds is about over […]
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