Between Jan. 28 and Feb. 8, National Park Service resources management staff conducted annual assessments of breeding habitat for piping plover, Wilson’s plover, American oystercatcher, and colonial waterbirds. During these assessments, preferred habit was located and pre-nesting areas for piping plover, Wilson’s plover, and American oystercatchers will be installed by March 15, weather and shoreline […]
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Citizen Science Program needs your help observing the weather
Do you ever wonder how much rainfall you received from a recent thunderstorm? How about snowfall during a winter storm? If so, a new volunteer weather observing program needs your help. The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow network, or CoCoRaHS, is looking for new volunteers across North Carolina. The grassroots effort is part of […]
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Wayne Teeter Jr.
OCRACOKE — Wayne Teeter,Jr., 69, passed away Sunday, March 9, 2014 at Carteret General Hospital. Afuneral service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Smyrna PentecostalHoliness Church with Rev. Ivey Belch and Rev. Ricky Nelms offciating. Afuneral service will also be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Assembly of Godin Ocracoke with Rev. Ivey […]
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Joseph ‘JT’ Toner
FRISCO– Joseph “JT” Toner passed away on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at the ageof 54. He was well liked by all. JT was born to Catherine and Frank E.Toner on July 18, 1959 in Ventnor City, N.J. Upon finishing highschool, JT lived for a period of time in California and then Texasprior to moving to […]
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Traffic will be halted on Bonner Bridge for 30 minutes on Monday, March 10
The North Carolina Department of Transportation will halt traffic on both sides of the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge on Highway 12 over Oregon Inlet at 9 a.m. Monday, March 10, for approximately 30 minutes while the department’s Location and Surveys Unit performs a routine mobile scan of the bridge. In 2012, the department installed scanning […]
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Thoughts on a wintry day
The headline on this blog could just as well have been ?Blah, blah, blah, and blah? because that?s the kind of winter we?ve been having.Of course, everything is relative, and many of our readers to the north and west have had it much worse, but everything is relative. Most locals agree that the winter has […]
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Stacey McKenney Cunningham
HATTERAS– Stacey McKenney Cunningham, 46, passed away Wednesday, March5, 2014. Born in Portsmouth, Va., on July 31, 1967, she was thedaughter of Hunter Ray McKenney and Hilary Rossow McKenney of Red Oak.She was preceded in death by her two brothers, Eric Christopher “Chris”McKenney and Michael Ray McKenney. A loving wife, mother,daughter and sister, she was […]
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Construction underway on permanent bridge at Pea Island Inlet
Crews with the N.C. Department of Transportation and Parsons Construction Group Inc. of Greenville, S.C., have begun preliminary work for the construction of the permanent N.C. 12 bridge on Pea Island in Dare County. Installation of safety fencing and erosion control measures began last week. Crews this week will begin mobilizing equipment to the project […]
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Our Coast: Kayaking Ocracoke in Winter
Summer at Ocracoke finds lots of kayakers plying their paddles along the shores of Pamlico Sound. Residents and tourists alike take to the water. As the temperature falls, the experience of kayaking changes, but there is still plenty to see and enjoy while paddling around the island in the winter. Warmer, waterproof clothes are a […]
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New Park Service report shows economic benefit of parks to Outer Banks
A new National Park Service report shows that 3,050,689 visitors to the Outer Banks Group — Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial — spent $175,341.2 million in communities near the parks. That spending supported 2,469 jobs in the local area. “The Outer Banks Group is proud to […]
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