Despite the government shutdown that was threatening the success of the annual North Carolina Beach Buggy Association Red Drum Tournament, all turned out well. The Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches reopened a week before the event, and 262 folks participated in this year’s tourney. Included in that number were 34 judges, seven junior anglers, 49 […]
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The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries has certified a new state record golden tilefish. Rex Allen Bunting Jr. of Frisco caught the fish April 7 while fishing off Hatteras. The fish weighed 46 pounds. It measured 43 inches from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail and had a 29-inch […]
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History re-enactors call what they did over the weekend at the First Annual Blackbeard’s Pirate Jamboree on Ocracoke “time tripping.” “This is as authentic as you can get,” explained Bill Burgess, one of the Devilmen of Cape Feare, after the “Battle of Ocracoke” in Silver Lake with three period boats and lots of gunpowder making […]
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KITTYHAWK — Mark Dane Dough, 57, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, Oct.26 while camping with his wife, Cyd, in Buxton where they enjoyed manyweekends fishing on the beach. Mark and Cyd had just celebrated their30th wedding anniversary. Theyoungest son of McDonald and Myrtle Meekins Dough, both deceased, Markwas raised in Colington and helped at the […]
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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 tale of Gustave Whitehead and his flying machine might be the zombie version of aviation history — it was killed long ago, but it keeps coming back. In an effort to slay Connecticut’s persistent claim that the German immigrant flew the first manned flight two years before the Wright brothers, the First Flight Foundation […]
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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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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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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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