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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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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By CONNIE LEINBACH By CONNIE LEINBACH The seven 2012 Ocracoke School students who graduated Sunday night, June 10, are going into the world with buckets full of encouraging notes from the Ocracoke community. The idea asking the audience to write personal notes to the graduates came from the keynote speaker Laura Burgess Miller of Charleston, […]
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Mary Helen Goodloe-Murphy of Rodanthe was announced the 2012 Dare County Citizen of the Year on Saturday, June 4, at the annual Dare Day Festival in Manteo. Mary Helen and her husband, Tom Murphy, moved to Dare County in 1986. After moving to Rodanthe, Mary Helen spent 10 years serving as a volunteer firefighter with […]
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Unfazed by a heavy barrage of criticism and outright ridicule by sources ranging from Scientific American to the “Colbert Report,” the N.C. Senate’s Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Committee yesterday approved a new version of a bill that restricts the use scientific modeling in state and local public policy and regulations to predict future sea-level […]
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Earlier this month, outdoors reporter Eric Burnley wrote a column for the Cape Gazette, which covers the Delaware Capes Region, on the good Memorial Day weekend fishing, His column was mostly about weekend catches, but at the end of the column, there was a report that caught the eye of some folks who are advocates […]
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UPDATE: H.R. 4094 is headed to the House floor for a vote By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources voted today to send H.R. 4094, a bill that would overturn the Park Service’s new off-road vehicle plan for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, to […]
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MANTEO– Janet Farrow Foster, 73, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, June7, 2012 at her residence, peacefully in her sleep. A Hatterasnative, Mrs. Foster was the daughter of the late Lester Farrow and thelate Salina Gaskins Farrow. She is also preceded in death by herhusband, Desmond Roderick Foster, Sr., her sister, Jean Bunting, […]
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AVON — Ralph Walter Coward, 82, died on June 7at his residence. He was born in Union Beach, N.J., and raised inCliffwood, N.J. Coward was the son of the late Ralph K. Coward and Dorothy Head Coward. He was preceded in death by his sister, Dorothy Kahlert, and survived by his brother, Joseph E. Coward […]
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UPDATE: House committee schedules markup on Jones bill By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources has scheduled a mark-up session tomorrow, June 7, at 10 a.m. at the Longworth House Office Building that will include consideration of a bill to overturn the Park Service’s […]
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