This week the Department of Transportation had open houses and hearings on the Outer Banks on its alternatives for bridging an unstable area on Highway 12 prone to overwash and breaches in north Rodanthe and the S-curves area, known as Phase IIb of the Bonner Bridge Project. Last month, the DOT released an Environmental Assessment […]
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During the holidays, many families gather around a crackling fire and bask in the warmth of good company, but, sadly, the flickering flames spotted in the Hooper home in Avon shortly after Christmas were no sign of merriment. Though the young family of three suffered a devastating loss of their home in a tragic fire, […]
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BUXTON– Doris Lee Jennette, 82, died Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. She was bornin Cordova, Md., to the late Edgar and Margaret Whitby Sard. It was inMaryland that she met Nasa Jennette Jr. and moved to Hatteras Islandsoon after. They were married for 35 years. Doris was a loving wife,mother, and grandmother. She was an exceptional […]
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There’s another potential headache looming for North Carolina residents who live in flood zones, and it has nothing to do with the recent changes in the federal law that are spiking rates in flood insurance. Instead, recent changes made in state building codes could affect discounts awarded to participants in the National Flood Insurance Program’s […]
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Darrell L. Echols, deputy superintendent of the National Park Service’s Outer Banks group, has been promoted to chief of science and natural resources in the Southeast Regional Office and will begin his new position on Jan. 12, 2014. Echols has served as the deputy superintendent or acting superintendent for nearly six years. During that time, […]
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If you asked her about her early days as a seafood education specialist for North Carolina Sea Grant, Joyce Taylor probably would have told the crab story. Shortly after accepting the position in 1973, Taylor was tasked with teaching a blue crab cooking class in western North Carolina. She transported a bunch of the pinchers […]
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BUXTON– Carol “Nena” Malina, passed away peacefully on Jan. 4, 2014 at herhome, surrounded by her beloved family, pets, and books at the age of86. She was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on April 1,1927, to Dr. Carlos Padilla and his wife, Esther Vidaurre. She lived inChiavari, Italy, from 1932 to 1942, where her father […]
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On Dec. 27, the News & Observer in Raleigh ? now apparently the mouthpiece for environmental groups in the state — published an ?other views? commentary by David Yarnold, President and CEO of the National Audubon Society. In case you don?t remember, the National Audubon Society joined the Defenders of Wildlife in 2007 to sue […]
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With all the chatter over the recent closure and long-delayed replacement plans for the 1963 Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet, we should take the time to reflect on the old bridge, which once again is connecting the Outer Banks to the mainland. The truth is that the bridge is a monument to human engineering. For […]
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The weather and the food may be responsible for the 2013 Oyster Roast by the Ocracoke Working Watermen Association being the best ever in its eight-year history. “It’s probably one of the better ones,” said Bill Evans as he dumped pile after pile of steaming oysters on make-shift plywood tables where patrons dug in. “The […]
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