Thirty-eight seniors received their diplomas at Saturday evening’s graduation ceremony at Cape Hatteras Secondary School of Coastal Studies. Friends and family members of the graduates filled William P. Dillon Gymnasium on a hot and humid night as thunderstorms threatened but didn’t rain on the parade of the Class of 2015. The Cape Hatteras Secondary School […]
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The National Park Service has approved a plan for how it will comply with changes in wildlife protections on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore that are required by legislation passed last December by the U.S. Congress. Among other things, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore legislation, passed as part of the National Defense Authorization Bill, instructs […]
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After a quarter century of planning, studies, bickering, and finally legal challenges from environmental groups, the decrepit 2.7-mile Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet will be replaced with a new parallel span. The announcement came in a news release about 1:30 this afternoon that the North Carolina Department of Transportation, along with the state […]
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) have finalized a settlement agreement with Defenders of Wildlife and the National Wildlife Refuge Association, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, allowing NCDOT to replace the aging Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over the […]
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General Assembly members worked at break-neck speed last week. Substantial additions were made to some bills, language was stripped out and new topics added into others, and a bill about local government reform became an elections bill. But the bill that gained the most attention was one that had been dormant for months but now […]
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The wildfire that began late Friday night, June 12, just north of Avon was 100 percent contained by early Saturday evening, according to David Hallac, superintendent of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Hallac said the total area burned by the blaze was somewhere between 15 and 20 acres. The cause is still undetermined, though the […]
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A wildfire north of Avon that closed Highway 12 for more than four hours last night has burned approximately 20 acres in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. At noon today, the fire was about 50 percent contained, according to Bert Plante, fire management officer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and incident commander. The […]
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It’s been nine months this week — 276 days — since the North Carolina Department of Transportation announced that it was stopping work on the permanent bridge over Pea Island Inlet and entering into negotiations with the Southern Environmental Law Center to end the legal wrangling over replacing the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over Oregon […]
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The Dare County Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education appear to have reached an agreement on the schools’ budget for the 2016 fiscal year. Last evening, in the last of two budget workshops, the commissioners signed off on a plan to trim the county’s proposed $101.9 million budget by another $400,000 to help […]
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Hurricane season began June 1, and Dare County Emergency Management urges residents, business owners and non-resident property owners to ensure they have the proper re-entry credentials. There are no changes to the Dare County re-entry procedures in 2015. “Now is the time to verify you have the proper re-entry credentials to return to Dare County […]
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