At exactly 8:46 yesterday morning, 30 firefighters and several other first responders started their second annual Memorial Stair Climb of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in Buxton. The start time, of course, was the hour on Sept. 11, 2001, that American Airlines Flight 11 plowed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New […]
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During the course of the last year, the North Carolina Department of Transportation has performed mobile scans every three months on the deck of the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over the Oregon Inlet on N.C. 12. The final scan in this series is scheduled for 9 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 15, weather permitting. At 9 […]
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There’s not been another word from the North Carolina Department of Transportation about the reason for abruptly stopping construction at the Pea Island bridge Wednesday morning. We promised our readers more information when we posted a cryptic, three-paragraph media release from DOT Wednesday. However, there’s been nary a whisper from anyone. Usually, a reporter can […]
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HATTERAS– Daniel Carl Willis, 90, entered into eternal rest on Sept. 11,2014. Daniel was born Sept. 25, 1923 to Valentine (Tine) TolsonWillis and Nancy Austin Willis. Daniel loved God, his family andcountry. During World War II, he served as a tank driver in the 737thtank battalion of the Third Army. The 737th participated in the […]
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On Monday, Sept.15 at midnight, off-road vehicle routes in Cape Hatteras National Seashore will reopen to night driving where no turtle nests remain or to the first posted closure in that route. The seashore’s off-road vehicle special regulation states that from Sept. 15 to Nov. 15, night driving is allowed on ORV routes, or portions […]
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation Ferry Division is making an adjustment to the schedule of the Cedar Island-Ocracoke route for the final two weeks of the summer season because of a mechanical problem with the MV Swan Quarter. The schedule, which will be in effect from Sept. 11-29, is as follows: Departing Cedar Island: […]
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DOT temporarily suspends work on new Pea Island bridge The North Carolina Department of Transportation is temporarily suspending work on the Pea Island bridge construction on Highway 12. The decision was made jointly with the Federal Highway Administration to allow NCDOT and FHWA to continue to review the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ recent […]
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Starting next week, traffic crossing the Currituck Sound on U.S. 158 will once again be reduced to one lane in each direction through May 2015. Crews with the N.C. Department of Transportation and G.A. & F.C. Wagman Inc. of York, Pa., will close the westbound Wright Memorial Bridge at the Currituck and Dare county line […]
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By TESS MALIJENOSKY Coastal Review Online The seas were rough for a day of shark fishing, one that makes waves in your stomach — and not because you’re “sharkin’,” as the captain put it. The bow of the 48-foot research vessel seemed to reach for the sky before dropping nose-first down into a wave. At […]
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Every acoustic music fan knows that nothing compliments good bluegrass, Irish, Old Time and American Roots music like the sun and the sea, but it took a happy accident to bring some of the best musical talent on the East Coast to sleepy little Hatteras village at the (almost) very end of North Carolina’s Outer […]
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