North Carolina commercial and recreational seafood harvests dropped in 2012, likely due to a combination of environmental, economic, and regulatory factors, including the shoaling of Oregon Inlet. Commercial fishermen harvested 56.7 million pounds of finfish and shellfish from North Carolina coastal waters in 2012, a 16 percent drop from the previous year, according to the […]
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The National Park Service Outer Banks Group is ready with a summer schedule full of a variety of programs for park visitors, including history talks, nature walks, recreational programs, and a multitude of children’s programs. The summer schedule runs from June 1 – Sept. 2. Program schedules and descriptions are available on-line at each park’s […]
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By B.J. OELSCHLEGEL On Jan. 1, 2009, Hyde County applied new assessments to each parcel on the county tax roles. These values were the result of an 18- 24 month professional study of the market and were verified as being at 100 percent of market value. This re-evaluation was triggered by a growing discrepancy between […]
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National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced last week that he has selected Stanley J. Austin to serve as the agency’s Southeast regional director. Austin will begin his new duties in mid-July. “Stan is a proven leader with a track record of innovative problem solving, and I am delighted he has accepted this opportunity […]
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Opposing forces are at work in the North Carolina General Assembly as the Senate tries to increase ferry tolls and add them to the ferries that are currently free and the House of Representatives works to remove tolls on all ferries or at least not raise them and keep the current free ferries. The House […]
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Dare County Board of Commissioners has approved the budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year, which begins July 1 and includes a 3.25-cent tax increase. The revenue neutral rate determined after the revaluation totals were set was 39.75 cents per $100 dollars of property value. The revenue neutral rate is the rate that would generate the […]
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BUXTON– Barbara Midgett Smithwick, 76, died Friday May 31, 2013, inElizabeth City. Mrs. Smithwick was a retired health care workerand a member of Fair Haven United Methodist Church. She waspredeceased by her mother and father, Luke Bradshaw and Ann MadesMidgett, her son, Bryan Midgett, and her brother, L.B. Midgett. Survivingare a son, Kyle Smithwick of […]
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I was recently taken aback by the sight of a dog bowl and a bag of treats placed on a colorful, neatly folded dog mat in the Hatteras Library. “What is a dog bowl doing here?” I wondered aloud. Helen Hudson, the library manager, stopped what she was doing to tell me all about the […]
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Dredging operations got under way this morning in the Hatteras ferry channel to clear a 10-to-12-foot depth along the route between the ferry facilities on Hatteras and Ocracoke, with the goal of clearing the way for the ferry route to return to its original path in a few weeks. Shoaling in the channel has been […]
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore Superintendent Barclay Trimble had his second media roundtable meeting with local reporters this week. The first meeting with the media after his arrival just before Hurricane Sandy last October was in February. The goal is to have one meeting each quarter. This week?s two-plus hour meeting was chock full of interesting […]
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