Deputy Superintendent Darrell Echols today filled in some of the details of the effects that forced federal spending cuts, also know as sequestration, will have on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The spending cuts are scheduled to go into effect on Friday, March 1, if Congress cannot make a deal by then, and the possibilities […]
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Owners of Hatteras-based boat win another round in long legal battle over Big Rock winnings Owners of Hatteras-based boat win another round in long legal battle over Big Rock winnings After several defeats in lower courts, the state Supreme Court has handed the charter boat Citation another opportunity to land more than $1 million in […]
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The National Park Service has been planning for months for cuts to the parks’ budgets if mandatory across-the-board spending cuts in federal funding, called sequestration, become effective on Friday. The cuts are expected to happen unless Congress passes legislation before Friday that would stop them. Thus far, neither Congress nor the President seem inclined to […]
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U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., today reintroduced a bill in the House of Representatives that seeks to overturn both the National Park Service’s final rule for off-road vehicles on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore and a court-approved consent decree that settled a lawsuit filed against the Park Service by environmental groups. The Preserving Access to […]
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The parties to a lawsuit filed a year ago by the Cape Hatteras Preservation Alliance against the federal government to stop the seashore’s new off-road vehicle management plan and final regulation have agreed to a schedule for proceeding, which has been approved by the court. The lawsuit was filed last February in the U.S. District […]
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OCRACOKE– Maxine Lee Williams Mason passed away peacefully at her home on Feb.25, 2013 with her family and best friend by her side. Maxine wasborn on Aug. 8, 1935, to the late Leonard Mac Williams and the lateMary Elizabeth Gaskins. For close to 50 years she was happilymarried to the late Charles Romaine Mason Sr. […]
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The Swan Quarter-Ocracoke ferry route reverted back to its normal schedule this morning in anticipation of the start-up of an alternate route for the Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry as early as tomorrow. The schedule for ferries between Ocracoke and the mainland, effective through May 20, is as follows: Swan Quarter to Ocracoke: 10 a.m., 4 p.m. […]
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This past Monday, Feb. 18, Hatteras Island Meals, Inc. hosted the first of a series of public meetings aimed at reorganizing and rebuilding the financially strapped organization. Hatteras Island Meals is a local, volunteer-based, nonprofit organization that delivers hot meals, free of charge, to community members who need them. Last month, the organization—which has had […]
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Dare County’s current $101 million budget is funded with a variety of sources, including federal and state money, grants, fees collected, and tax revenues derived from property taxes. Property tax revenues in the current budget total $49 million, slightly less than half the amount needed to pay for the total current budget that expires on […]
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation will hold a series of public meetings in March to discuss the long-term solution for the section of Highway 12 on Pea Island breached by Hurricane Irene in 2011. NCDOT has recently released a document called an Environmental Assessment, which identifies the preferred alternative as the permanent bridge […]
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