Who is “Mark,” and why does he have a path on Ocracoke? Where’s the poker game on Poker Players Lane? Streets in Ocracoke have sometimes quirky, sometimes obvious (Creek Road), even ho-hum names, such as North Street or Middle Road. While Ocracoke has had European settlers since the 1700s, the island got official street names […]
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The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission postponed action on proposals for southern Flounder management that had been scheduled for last week’s meeting. During last week’s meeting, the board received a letter from N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Donald van der Vaart. Van der Vaart’s letter referenced and enclosed a letter he received […]
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Midway through a study on the feasibility of passenger-only ferry service directly between Hatteras and Ocracoke villages, the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division will host two public meetings on the topic on Monday, Aug. 31, and Tuesday, Sept. 1. The meetings will be an open forum, where members of the public can stop by […]
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Erika became the fifth tropical storm of the season late Monday night with winds of 45 mph, and today the storm has been moving briskly westward with little change in intensity. At 2 p.m., the National Hurricane Center said the center of Ericka was located 640 miles east of the Leeward Islands, moving westward at […]
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For die-hard bluegrass fans, the festival season can’t arrive soon enough or last long enough. And each festival, from the smallest one-day concert to the three- and four-day tent cities like Grey Fox and Bean Blossom, has something unique about it that induces what bluegrass fans called the “perpetual grin.” On Oct. 8-11, 10 bands […]
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A pumping unit at this location historically provided much needed water-level management capabilities for half the managed acreage on this refuge. By manipulating water levels in North Pond, managers have affected growth of aquatics and submerged aquatic plants, which are a valuable food source for migrating and wintering waterfowl, as well as a variety of other migratory […]
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Hurricane Danny, a powerful Category 3 storm just last Friday, was downgraded to a tropical storm over the weekend and then to a low pressure area just west-southwest of Guadeloupe Monday morning, defeated by wind shear and dry air. The National Hurricane Center stopped issuing advisories on Danny at 11 a.m. today, and forecasters turned […]
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The National Hurricane Center today upgraded Hurricane Danny to a Category 3 storm, with winds of 115 miles an hour — a major hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. At 5 p.m., the center of Danny was located about 860 miles east of the Windward Islands and the storm was moving to the west-northwest at 10 […]
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Summer continues to race by with the end of August already approaching and children preparing for yet another school year. The forecast of late has hopefully been a prelude of weather to come. Mother Nature threw us several very nice days, with much welcomed cool temps and low humidity. It’s been common to hear people […]
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That’s not the ocean breeze you hear. It’s the collective tentative sigh of relief from local governments because the House has refused to accept the Senate changes made to House Bill 117, N.C. Competes. While in the Senate, the original bill, an incentives package requested by Gov. Pat McCrory, was amended twice to add the […]
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