Pursuing funds for dredging Oregon Inlet has become akin to “follow the bouncing ball.” At its meeting on Monday, the Dare County Board of Commissioners requested that the General Assembly approve using $5.5 million from the beach nourishment fund for dredging Oregon Inlet. The funds were collected to use for beach nourishment under a 1-cent […]
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Legislative Update: A week of committee work in Raleigh
(Sandy Semans is a retired newspaper editor and reporter who now works as a free-lance writer. She lives in Stumpy Point. Her update on the goings-on in this session of the General Assembly will appear weekly in The Island Free Press, usually on Friday.)
A new day for the park and the people?
A good-size crowd of residents and regular visitors came to the Cape Hatteras Secondary School auditorium on Tuesday evening, May 5, to hear about and comment on the National Park Service’s plan to adjust wildlife protection buffers in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in response to legislation passed in December by the U.S. Congress. And, […]
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Coastal low likely will be Tropical Storm Ana by Friday
The National Hurricane Center is giving the low pressure area off the South Carolina coast a 80 percent chance of developing into a tropical system — probably a sub-tropical storm — by Friday. If so, the storm will be named Ana. However, whether the storm is named or not, it’s likely to bring nasty weather […]
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Passenger ferry makes stops at Hatteras and Ocracoke
Many Ocracoke islanders who visited the passenger ferry, the Provincetown III, on Tuesday, May 5, were heartened. “I’m greatly encouraged,” noted Leslie Lanier, owner of Books to Be Red, as she noted the bicycle racks on the bow. “It’s an answer to our economic future,” said Mickey Baker, owner of Mermaid’s Folly. However, so is going […]
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Warren Gaskins Jr.
AVON– Warren Gaskins Jr., 61, passed away while at home with his family onMay 5, 2015. He was born May 26, 1953, in Buxton to WarrenGaskins Sr. and the late Elizabeth Gaskins. As a Coast Guardfamily, they moved often before settling in Chesapeake, Va. Warren graduated from Deep Creek High School in 1971 and met DeniseDorsett […]
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Tropical system could affect Outer Banks by week’s end
Social media, weather websites, and television have been jammed today with speculation that a subtropical or tropical system could form in the area of the Bahamas mid-week and threaten the southeast coast with nasty weather by week’s end almost a full month before the official beginning of the hurricane season. Forecasters are looking at low […]
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Congressman talks about Hatteras issues and more on radio show
U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., was the guest on the most recent edition of the Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point,” which was broadcast on May 3. Jones, who describes himself as an “independent Republican,” is serving his 11th term representing 22 coastal counties, including Dare, in the U.S. House of Representatives. During […]
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The Night Sky: Stargazing tips for May
Although we had a lot of cloudy nights, April proved to be much better than March for stargazing and astrophotography. My two best images included M51 the Whirlpool Galaxy and 57 the Ring Nebula. M51 is one of my favorite nighttime objects. You can see there are two galaxies in the photo. They are often […]
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Legislative Update: Rushing to meet the ‘crossover’ deadline
(Sandy Semans is a retired newspaper editor and reporter who now works as a free-lance writer. She lives in Stumpy Point. Her update on the goings-on in this session of the General Assembly will appear weekly in The Island Free Press, usually on Friday.)
