Captain Horatio Sinbad cleaned his small brass signal gun to fire on the next North Carolina ferry to dock today in Ocracoke’s Silver Lake. “They love it,” he said about the ferry-goers while on his brigantine boat, the Meka II, which was docked at the NPS docks. “The dredge Merritt threatened to shoot back.” It’s […]
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The Cape Hatteras Fishing Pier in Frisco, known to most as just the Frisco Pier, has been a southern Hatteras Island landmark for 50 years. It?s been beloved by locals and visitors, anglers and sightseers. In recent years, it?s been badly battered by hurricanes and northeasters and only part of it is still standing. It […]
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released the draft compatibility determination for the S-Curves beach nourishment interim protection for Highway 12 project to the public for review and comment until Nov. 8. The work proposed will be conducted on Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. Comments are being sought on the benefits and impacts from […]
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A little shorebird bird known for its epic migrations is likely to ruffle some feathers. “If they decided to list the brontosaurus, they might have a hard time,” Derb Carter, noted North Carolina birdwatcher and the director of the Chapel Hill office of the Southern Environmental Law Center said recently when asked about potential opposition […]
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Drastic increases in flood insurance policy rates are looming for a small percentage of property owners, especially those who own older houses below base flood level or second homes in flood zones. But most people won’t be facing the astronomical spikes in their insurance bills that some fear. “Eighty-one percent of the properties are going […]
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It may be hard to describe fishing as back to normal when so much has changed over the years. Seasonal beach closures and permanent beach closures have actually changed so much about beach fishing, it is getting harder and harder to remember what was normal. I know for sure that a government shutdown that led […]
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In the last hours of Wednesday, Oct. 16, as most members of Congress hustled to come up with a way to end the federal government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling, two powerful House committees spent five hours grilling National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis on why the parks and monuments were closed up tight. […]
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All of the parks in the Outer Banks Group have now reopened, including Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the Wright Brothers National Memorial, and Fort Raleigh National Historic site. Park facilities and Cape Hatteras National Seashore beach access ramps to popular park beaches, all oceanside and soundside beach areas have been evaluated for safe access for […]
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A community-run radio station on Hatteras Island that has been in the works for years is finally close to being launched. Radio Hatteras has been granted approval by the Federal Communications Commission to have an existing commercial license transferred to a nonprofit license. “It’s very exciting,” said Jean Taylor, past president of the Radio Hatteras […]
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Some changes to the rules of the 16-day-old government shutdown on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore have helped to ease the situation this week for visitors and business owners. And today, there is finally some hope that Congress will pass legislation to end the standoff, keeping the government operating and raising the debt ceiling. The […]
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