U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle is still with us, and we?ll find out later this month if he will continue to be with us going forward with litigation against the Park Service?s final ORV regulation. Boyle has set another status conference on a 2008 consent decree that settled a lawsuit against the Park Service […]
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By CATHERINE KOZAK
By CATHERINE KOZAK By CATHERINE KOZAK The Outer Banks has lost one of its most celebrated residents. The Outer Banks has lost one of its most celebrated residents. The Outer Banks has lost one of its most celebrated residents. Andy Griffith, who started his acting career with The Lost Colony and honed his comedy routine […]
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By IRENE NOLAN
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN John Fletcher likes to tell a Chinese fable of an old woman and a tiger as it relates to his philosophy of government. Fletcher, 74, of Cedar Road, is the apparent new county commissioner from Ocracoke, beginning Jan. 3, having bested incumbent Darlene Styron, 45, in the May primary […]
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North Carolina’s second primary will be Tuesday, July 17
North Carolina will have a second primary election on Tuesday, July 17, to determine winners for some statewide offices, who will run in the general election on Nov. 6. Eight states allow political parties to conduct a second primary under specific circumstances. For North Carolina the deciding factors are whether the winner in the May […]
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Finally, someone in Washington hears us
Hatteras and Ocracoke have been buzzing with talk of the stellar performance of West Virginia?s Democratic Senator, Joe Manchin, at Wednesday?s hearing in the Senate?s Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The committee took up a dozen Park Service bills, including S 2372, which would overturn the seashore?s final plan and regulation of off-road vehicle use […]
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Supporters of bill to overturn ORV rule find a friend on Senate committee
Supporters of a Senate bill to set aside the National Park Service’s final plan and special regulation on off-road vehicles at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore found a Democratic friend today at a Senate committee hearing. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., took up the cause, admonishing a Park Service witness and saying that the agency had […]
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DOT plans a permanent bridge at Pea Island, but long-term fix for Rodanthe not decided
Transportation planners most likely will replace the temporary bridge over the Highway 12 breach in Pea Island with a permanent one at the same location, but it will still be months before the long-term fix is chosen for the highway breach in Rodanthe. Massive sound tide from Hurricane Irene in August tore a jagged inlet […]
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James Earl Thompson
HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — James Earl Thompson(Jim), 78, passed away on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in the loving embraceof his wife. After a courageous and dignified five-year battlewith cancer, he passed from this life peacefully and with dignity intothe loving arms of our Lord. He was born on October 24, 1933 in Carroll County, Virginia, to […]
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State sea-level rise policy won’t affect insurance rates By CATHERINE KOZAK Coastal Review Online
Supporters of the N.C. Senate’s now-infamous sea-level rise bill warned that property insurance rates would go through the roof if the state were allowed to plan for the three-foot rise in ocean levels that most scientists expect by the end of this century. The insurance industry in the state is caught in the middle of […]
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Seas rising faster along northern Outer Banks By Frank Tursi Coastal Review Online
With state legislators still wading through the issue of rising seas, a new federal report released yesterday seems to further muddy the water. Contrary to what we heard from some legislators the last few weeks, not only does the sea seem to be rising along the state’s northern coast, but it’s doing so at a […]
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