With the traditional peak of the hurricane season just days away, the North Carolina Department of Transportation today successfully tested new ferry ramps at Stumpy Point and Rodanthe, marking a major improvement to the emergency ferry route that provides access to Hatteras Island in the event of storm damage to Highway 12. On Thursday, […]
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Turtle nest excavations are a big hit with visitors
On a hot and sunny morning in late August, a large crowd of about 75 men, women, children and even a few dogs huddled around a small beach enclosure, outlined with black tarpaulin, just south of Ramp 27 on Hatteras Island. Just days before, more than 100 baby loggerhead sea turtles crawled along the same […]
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UPDATE: MFC votes unanimously to deny trawling ban
The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission voted unanimously today at its meeting in Raleigh to deny a petition to reclassify most of the state’s internal coastal waters as permanent secondary nursery areas. Four advisory panels to the commission voted in July to recommend that the petition be denied. If the petition for rulemaking had been […]
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Park Service fall programs begin Sept. 3
National Park Service Outer Banks Group (Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, Wright Brothers National Memorial, and Cape Hatteras National Seashore) fall program season will run from Tuesday, Sept. 3, through Monday, Oct.14. A variety of programs are offered, and all programs are free. Wright Brothers National Memorial: Daily at 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., […]
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NCDOT Ferry Division sets sail on Facebook
The latest news about the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division is now available on the most popular social media site on the web. Today, the Ferry Division launched a Facebook page to provide open dialogue and immediate communication with passengers and the public. “The North Carolina Ferry Division is more than a […]
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U.S. 64 widening is a road story with a happy ending
Against all odds, it appears that two small communities along the proposed U.S. 64 widening project in northeastern North Carolina will get the route they wanted, while sparing thousands of wildlife from becoming road kill. Even more unlikely, nearly everyone is happy that the project leaves East Lake intact but curves into federal wildlife refuge […]
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A photographer’s view of the historic storms
Island Free Press photographer Don Bowers sent us some photos that he took after hurricanes Emily and Isabel. There are two slide shows – one very short one from Emily and a longer one from Isabel. The Hurricane Emily photos were taken in the Buxton area shortly after the storm passed. The Hurricane Isabel photos […]
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Environmental groups want Cape Hatteras included in loggerhead critical habitat
As the residents of the Core Banks and the Crystal Coast are up in arms about a proposed federal rule that could put additional regulations on their beaches to protect sea turtles, regulators are considering whether the area for the threatened species should be expanded to Cape Hatteras. Included in its 19-page comments to the […]
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Coast Guard medevacs man, dewaters yacht east of Ocracoke Inlet…WITH VIDEO
The Coast Guard medevaced a 44-year-old man aboard a yacht Sunday that was taking on water in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 14 miles east of Ocracoke Inlet. A crew member aboard the Lady Windridge, a 149-foot yacht, contacted Coast Guard Sector North Carolina Command Center watchstanders at approximately 2:45 a.m. reporting their boat had seven […]
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Mary Havard
ANNAPOLIS,Md. – Mary Joyce Havard, 86, passed away at home on Aug. 25, 2013,surrounded by her family. Raised in West Pittston, PA., Mary moved tothe Washington, D.C., area in 1950 with her husband and began workingfor the director of the Medical Society of Washington D,C. Mary laterworked as a research assistant for the editor of […]
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