For two days each month, beginning Wednesday and Thursday, April 20-21, the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles will bring its new SUV-style portable mobile unit to the Hatteras Civic Center, located at 1498 Highway 12. The new compact mobile office will enable DMV to offer services inside the building and out of the weather. The […]
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On Wednesday, April 13, Dare County released the second of what will become regular and frequent updates for the public on the construction of the Bonner Bridge replacement and the Pea Island Inlet Interim Bridge. The first video was released shortly after March 8, the day that the construction officially began with a “groundbreaking” ceremony […]
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County assessor Greta Skeen and David White, chief residential appraiser, discussed a map of damage done to the properties in the three areas during major storms dating back to Hurricane Isabel in 2003. At least three commissioners — Woodard, Beverly Boswell, and Jack Shea — seemed to be leaning toward a Map 3 service district. […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Dare County’s Oregon Inlet and Waterways Commission voted unanimously at Monday night’s meeting to ask the Board of Commissioners to pursue both a long-term and short-term solution for clearing out clogged channels in Hatteras Inlet. Several dozen Hatteras islanders, mostly boat captains, attended the commission meeting for yet another […]
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore officials established an off-road vehicle corridor near Cape Point at 7 a.m. this morning to allow drivers to bypass a handful of American oystercatchers that are engaged in nesting behavior. This is the first time that the seashore has used the new buffer regulations for bird-nesting activity. The regulations were enacted […]
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore officials this morning established an off-road vehicle corridor near Cape Point to allow drivers to bypass a pair of American oystercatchers that are engaged in pre-nesting behavior. This is the first time that the seashore has used the new buffer regulations that were enacted last summer as a part of changes […]
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RODANTHE — Thomas Francis Smigiel,age 81, of Rodanthe and formerly of Richmond, Va., died on Monday,April 11, 2016 in Nags Head. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., onOct. 6, 1934 to the late Thomas Martin and Mary Bubeck Smigiel. Tom was an electrician for many years at Defense Supply CenterRichmond and retired from civil […]
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At a meeting of the Outer Banks National Scenic Byway Advisory Committee on Tuesday, April 5, at the Hatteras Realty office in Avon – the same office that has hosted dozens if not scores of these meetings over the past 13 years – the official signs for the highway were unveiled, to the delight of […]
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Last week, U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., joined Dare and Carteret counties in opposing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) proposed expansion of the Monitor Sanctuary off the Eastern North Carolina coast. The existing sanctuary protects the remains of the USS Monitor, a Civil War ironclad that sank in December 1862 off of […]
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During National Volunteer Week, April 10-16, the National Park Service Outer Banks Group celebrates the volunteers who work at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Wright Brothers National Memorial, and Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. This past year these volunteers donated a total of 19,856 hours. Last year, the 251 Outer Banks Group volunteers donated numerous hours […]
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