North Carolina Ferry Division officials at the monthly meeting on Ocracoke Monday talked more about the potential for passenger ferry service to the island from Hatteras. Jed Dixon, deputy ferry division director, who stressed that nothing has been decided, said that the feasibility study being done by Volkert, Inc., is expected to be done in […]
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Something’s happening out there in the waters of our coast. Chuck Bangley knows it. Bangley was a doctoral student at East Carolina University in 2011 when he started recording shark activity in North Carolina sounds. In the previous four decades, nine juvenile bull shark pups were documented in Pamlico Sound. During the next three years, […]
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The ink on the 2015-16 North Carolina State Budget wasn’t quite dry yesterday when the North Carolina Senate voted 33-16 along party lines to approve it — just six hours after the printed copies were provided to the legislators. Democrats refused to rubber-stamp the budget because of lack of time to review the more than […]
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The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Plant Industry Division has scheduled a public meeting for Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 7 p.m. in the Fessenden Center on Highway 12 in Buxton. At the meeting, division officials will present a plan to eradicate a severe, isolated infestation of the invasive gypsy moth in the […]
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The Dare County Planning Board will hold a zoning workshop for the villages of Rodanthe, Waves and Salvo on Thursday, Sept. 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Rodanthe Community Building, located at 23186 Myrna Peters Road. Residents and property owners of the villages are encouraged to attend. The villages of Rodanthe, Waves and […]
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The Dare County Board of commissioners and state Rep. Paul Tine jointly announced today that the General Assembly has reached a compromise on dredging for Oregon Inlet. In a news release, they were careful to stress that this solution is a temporary one while Bonner Bridge is replaced. “We are very glad that we have […]
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The National Park Service will open off-road vehicle routes in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore to night driving on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at midnight. Routes that will be open to night driving are those where no turtle nests remain or a portion of a route where a nest does remain — to the first posted […]
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The National Park Service has issued a Record of Decision, adopting the Final Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Assessment of North Carolina Department of Transportation’s plan for the replacement and demolition of the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge. The ROD has been approved and signed by NPS Regional Director Stan Austin and documents the decision by […]
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The dog that is thought to have bitten a 2-year-old boy on the beach in Waves last Thursday has been located, and the animal’s owner has been charged with three federal violations by the National Park Service. According to law enforcement ranger Chris Hey, the dog’s owner was located in the tri-villages on Saturday evening […]
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A plane with one person on board crashed into the Croatan Sound near the Dare County Regional Airport (MQI) in Manteo at approximately 4:30 p.m. Monday. The plane was approximately 50 feet from the approach end of the runway. The pilot was rescued by first responders and transported by Dare MedFlight to Norfolk, Va., for […]
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