UPDATE: Senate bill to overturn ORV plan will have committee hearing on June 27 By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN A Senate bill to overturn the National Park’s Service’s plan and final rule for managing off-road vehicles on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore will have a hearing before the […]
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Coastal Sketch: Russell Blackwood and life beneath the waves
Russell Blackwood was pointing to a photograph he had taken underwater of a juvenile flounder off Hatteras. Even close up, it barely looked like a fish, its shape completely covered with sand, pebbles and shells. Blackwood admired the creature’s camouflage skill. “See him? There’s his little eyes. He’s looking back at me like ‘Why are […]
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Audubon Magazine article really misses the mark
in early May, a reporter for Audubon Magazine contacted the Outer Banks Preservation Association by e-mail. The reporter, Anna Sanders, wanted to interview someone from OBPA about the beach access situation at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. OBPA board members decided to pass on the invitation, both because of a pending lawsuit against the National […]
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UPDATE: Ocracokers are in shock about Republicans’ renewed effort to put tolls on Hatteras Inlet ferry By CONNIE LEINBACH
By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH Democratic state Sen. Stan White wants the North Carolina Republican Senate leadership to tell him the difference between enacting and raising ferry tolls along the coast and the Senate’s desire not to raise taxes. White was talking in a late-afternoon interview after Wednesday’s Senate session, during which his budget […]
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William Avner Midgett Sr.
WAVES — William Avner Midgett Sr., 75,died Tuesday June 13, 2012 in Norfolk, Va. Mr. Midgett was bornin Waves and was retired from the U.S. Coast Guard where he served hiscountry honorably in Vietnam and was an expert rifleman. He recentlyretired from the N.C. State Division of Ferries and was a commercialfisherman. He was the son […]
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UPDATE: H.R. 4094 will go to House floor next week
UPDATE: H.R. 4094 will go to House floor next week Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives will consider the Conservation and Economic Growth Act, a package of 14 Natural Resources Committee bills that will create new American jobs, grow the economy, protect the environment, and promote development of renewable hydropower. “This grouping of bills […]
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Ocracoke Real Estate: The role of agents is no small thing in buying and selling By B.J. OELSCHLEGEL
I feel lucky to be able to say that I am representing a buyer in a contract for the sale of a piece of real estate. While the market had been deathly quiet, we have been seeing more activity since about August of 2011. Our buyers are staying in the range of below $400,000. The […]
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Ocracoke Health Center receives grant for funding for telemedicine
Last week, the Ocracoke Health Center was awarded a $358,967 Distance Learning and Telemedicine grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Ocracoke Health Center has partnered with the North Carolina Office of Rural Health and Community Care and Brody School of Medicine to establish a telehealth “virtual health safety net” in Dare and Hyde […]
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Monitor Marine Sanctuary’s possible expansion raises suspicions By CATHERINE KOZAK Coastal Review Online
Soured by what they view as onerous government restrictions on fishing, boating and beach driving, Outer Banks divers are skeptical of a proposed update of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary that would include any possibility of future expansion. But sanctuary officials said the draft plan does not propose or advocate an expansion. It only proposes […]
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By CONNIE LEINBACH
Hyde County Hotline, the nonprofit agency based in Swan Quarter, recently opened Tapestry, a Studio on Ocracoke. It is a retail operation for Hotline’s recycle project business model. Proceeds from the shop/studio fund Hotline’s crisis intervention and advocacy services to victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence in Hyde County. Based on the successful […]
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