A test of a business’s value to its customers is when it’s not open, everyone hankers for it. That happened over the winter and spring as The Flying Melon restaurant, which had been along Highway 12 since 2006, decamped for the winter while a new building was built on Back Road. “When is the […]
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Summer has come to Ocracoke and none too soon for local business owners who have struggled through a winter of suspended — and longer — ferry rides and a cool spring. The streets and shops are again seeing more tourists, thanks, in part, to the resumed regular ferry run between Hatteras and Ocracoke, which returned […]
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The Southern Environmental Law Center, Audubon North Carolina, and Defenders of Wildlife need some new writers ? or at least some new ideas — for their press releases. They have been issuing the same release for at least five years now, even though it has been noted here and in other publications that their storyline […]
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The Park Service road out to Ramps 43 and 44 and the Cape Point Campground had no traffic on it this morning, and the area at the ramps was like a ghost town. Eight vehicles were in the parking area next to the fish cleaning tables. Their occupants presumably parked there to walk out Ramp […]
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The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today marked up an amended version of Senate Bill 486 to overturn the National Park Service’s off-road vehicle plan and final rule for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The legislation was one of a dozen bills today considered by the committee. All were reported favorably, and S […]
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We are well into June and just days from the official start of summer, although the weather definitely feels like summer. Almost daily threats of thunderstorms, rising air temps, water temps, and humidity mean the season is in full swing. Many think that there is no good fishing in the summer months. But that is […]
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There are now four chicks on the ground from a piping plover nest that began hatching last Thursday, June 13, between Ramps 43 and 44. In addition, the parents have moved the chicks to the north and they are foraging in a pond next to the parking area for Ramp 43. Randy Swilling, natural resource […]
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Hatteras Fever II captured the 55th annual Big Rock Blue Marlin tournament Saturday, June 15, when it survived a wild final day that featured 30 blue marlin releases. Hatteras Fever II, captained by Buddy Hooper of Buxton, showed up at the scales Wednesday, June 12, with a 465.3-pound blue marlin that was reeled in by […]
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation Ferry Division’s Hatteras-Ocracoke route returned to its original route with the start of service on Sunday morning, June 16. The move is the result of collaboration between the Ferry Division, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. and the U.S. Coast Guard. The Corps of Engineers, which is responsible […]
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The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will meet on Tuesday, June 18, at 10 a.m. to consider a dozen bills, including S.B. 486, which would overturn the Park Service’s off-road vehicle plan on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The bill, introduced by U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., along with Sen. Kay Hagan, […]
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