Beginning Sunday, Nov. 1, seasonal off-road vehicle routes will reopen in Cape Hatteras National Seashore. With no remaining resource protection closures for sea turtle nests this season, the seasonal ORV routes will reopen to night driving on Nov. 1 at 12:01 a.m. In addition, the Park Service has opened a temporary Frisco Emergency Access Ramp […]
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If you are going to be on Hatteras Island next weekend and don’t already have plans, I strongly suggest that there is a really cool and fun event that you might want to attend on Saturday morning at 9 a.m. The event is the dedication of the new Keepers of the Light Amphitheater on the […]
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Property owners from Hatteras Island’s northern villages came out in force Wednesday night to tell the Dare County Planning Board in no uncertain terms that they did not want to change their current zoning. A vocal and at times raucous standing-room-only crowd filled every seat and lined the walls of the Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo Community Center to […]
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It’s the end of October, and we are well into fall. After a brutal attack from Mother Nature at the end of September and earlier this month , the Outer Banks has had mainly mild weather. — maybe, at times, a little too mild to catch good numbers of the bigger fish. While citation-sized drum […]
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(UPDATE – Because of continued flooding of the access road to Ramp 43, the long-distance casting seminar by competitive distance casting champion Tommy Farmer has been moved to Ramp 34, just north of Avon. The casting seminar is still scheduled for 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 4, and will be open to the public.) About […]
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To put this in some kind of human frame of reference: Imagine a crowded bar and a bad rock band so loud you can’t make a pass at the girl on the bar stool next to you. Doug Nowacek, a marine ecology and bioacoustics expert at the Duke University Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, is pretty […]
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Exploration for oil and natural gas in the Atlantic Ocean will cover more territory than any previous modern-day seismic testing, giving pause to environmentalists and federal regulators. With such an expansive area of ocean floor to survey, companies currently seeking permits to conduct seismic surveys in the Atlantic will likely be working over long periods […]
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The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Plant Industry Division has scheduled a second public meeting for Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Fessenden Center on Highway 12 in Buxton. At the meeting, division officials will update their plan to eradicate a severe, isolated infestation of the invasive gypsy moth in […]
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The National Weather Service in Morehead City, N.C., has extended its coastal flood advisory for areas from Cape Lookout north, including Hatteras and Ocracoke islands, from 5 a.m. until 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning. The Weather Service said in a statement that an east swell combined with gusty northeast winds and a very high astronomical […]
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The N.C. Department of Transportation has awarded a contract for the repair of a section of Highway 12/Beach Road in Kitty Hawk damaged during a storm earlier in October. A $412,933 contract was awarded to Waff Contracting Inc. of Edenton for the reconstruction of Highway 12/Beach Road between Kitty Hawk Road and Lillian Street, […]
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