The North Carolina Department of Transportation has awarded a contract to perform scour protection on three bents and rehabilitation of one bent on the Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet in Dare County. Bents are commonly used to support beams and girders. The scour protection will consist of rock filled wire baskets being placed on […]
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation has awarded a contract to perform scour protection on three bents and rehabilitation of one bent on the Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet in Dare County. Bents are commonly used to support beams and girders. The scour protection will consist of rock filled wire baskets being placed on […]
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Some Dare County business owners are very unhappy that Dare County has finally started enforcing its long-standing sign ordinance. ?Doing this the year after Hurricane Irene and in the middle of the season is just plain dumb,? said one business owner. County Planning Director Donna Creef sent a letter to business owners in February to […]
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation has awarded a contract to perform scour protection on three bents and rehabilitation of one bent on the Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet in Dare County. Bents are commonly used to support beams and girders. The scour protection will consist of rock filled wire baskets being placed on […]
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The Cape Hatteras Access Preservation Alliance on Monday filed a 17-page brief objecting to a Washington, D.C., judge’s announcement that he is inclined to transfer its lawsuit over the National Park Service off-road vehicle plan and final rule to U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle in the Eastern District of North Carolina. CHAPA filed the […]
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The Cape Hatteras Access Preservation Alliance on Monday filed a 17-page brief objecting to a Washington, D.C., judge’s announcement that he is inclined to transfer its lawsuit over the National Park Service off-road vehicle plan and final rule to U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle in the Eastern District of North Carolina. CHAPA filed the […]
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The caravan of vehicles slowly snakes along, traveling five miles down a dusty gravel road to way down yonder in the woods. Pickup trucks, sports cars, SUVs, station wagons and a Tioga RV camper with three bicycles strapped to its bumper carry mostly Outer Banks vacationers on a twilight excursion to hear red wolves howl […]
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As Hurricane Irene moved up the East Coast just about a year ago, Joseph DiRenzo, the chief of operations analysis for the Coast Guard Atlantic Area, placed a phone call from his office in Portsmouth, Va., to Rick Luettich, director of the University of North Carolina’s Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City. DiRenzo was worried about […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The east side of Cape Point in Cape Hatteras National Seashore reopened to off-road vehicle (ORV) access today. According to the newly adopted Off-Road Vehicle Management Plan, the designated ORV route from 0.4 mile north of Ramp 43 to Ramp 44 and south to Cape Point is currently open […]
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Hatteras and Ocracoke residents ? and others on the Outer Banks and up and down the East Coast — were bereft when they got the news from Frank last weekend. Of course, news from Frank is never good news, but this was particularly startling news. In an e-mail, with ?Tropics/Important notice? in the subject line, […]
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