By BRAD RICH Coastal Review Online “A lot more research is needed before anyone can be sure that any alligator hunt in North Carolina won’t harm the species. The data just isn’t there. ” Dinkelacker recently expressed that same opinion in formal comments to the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, which has proposed an alligator hunt […]
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By JOY CRIST Lynn Hartshorne, a Frisco resident, has found a unique way to utilize her creative talents into a project that does a lot of good, and fulfills a small but important niche for the volunteering community of the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters (CHKD) in Norfolk, Va. She creates burial gowns for […]
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With a dredging project just completed in Hatteras Inlet, conditions that have clogged the channel since the summer have been considerably improved. “I’ve talked to my captains and they’re pretty comfortable right now,” Jed Dixon, deputy Director of the state Ferry Division, said at Monday’s meeting of the Dare County Oregon Inlet and Waterways Commission. […]
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On Tuesday evening, Jan. 12, a small wildland fire burned approximately 3/4 of an acre south of Whalebone Junction on Cape Hatteras National Seashore between Highway 12 and the power transmission corridor in south Nags Head. The National Park Service was assisted in managing the fire by firefighters from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Nags Head Fire […]
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Following several years of scientific and archaeological assessment and public input, NOAA last week announced plans to consider possible expansion of Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, off the North Carolina coast. NOAA says that the proposed expansion would protect a collection of historically significant shipwrecks including vessels sunk during World War II’s Battle of the Atlantic. […]
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By ROB ALDERMAN Construction hasn’t even started yet for the replacement for the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet, but the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries already has plans for what do with the rubble from the old bridge. Marine Fisheries’ Artificial Reef Program has scheduled a meeting in Manteo to inform the […]
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The National Park Service has just announced that the new Inside Road, which connects Ramps 44 and 49 in Frisco, has been completed and that construction has started on Ramp 63, about three miles south of the ferry docks on Ocracoke. The projects are all part of the infrastructure initiatives that the Park Service expedited […]
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Lemoine Rollinson Sr. WANCHESE — Victor Lemoine Rollinson Sr., 76, died on Monday, Jan. 11,2016 at his home. Born May 7, 1939 in Buxton, he was the son of thelate Robert Crisp Rollinson and Patricia Williams Rollinson Herbert.Vic served his country honorably for 20 years with the United StatesCoast Guard and retired as a Chief […]
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Virginia Robinson FRISCO — Dorothy Virginia Robinson (n�e Pettitt) passed awayunexpectedly at her home on Jan. 9, 2016 at the age of 86. Left to cherish her memory are her daughter, Margie Randall, andhusband, Clint; Grandsons Ken Randall and wife, Shannah, and TomRandall, and wife, Alicia; and great-granddaughters, Lauren James, andhusband, Dustin, Taylor Randall, Erin […]
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Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative has been expecting construction to start on its new Community Solar Garden any day now for about a month. First, weather at its other construction sites slowed down the contractor, Hannah Solar, which has also been involved with other community solar projects for North Carolina electric cooperatives. And now the […]
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