A plume of tropical moisture along with the remnants of Post-Tropical Cyclone Bonnie teamed up to bring record rainfall to areas of Hatteras Island on Memorial Day. According to the National Weather Service in Newport/Morehead City, widespread 4- to 5-inch rainfall totals were measured on Hatteras with a record 7.09 inches for May 30 recorded […]
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With its temporary sandbag rules tossed aside over a technicality, the state Coastal Resources Commission this month set its sights on drafting the permanent rules it needed to do anyway. The CRC has limited wiggle room within the legislative mandate passed last summer regulating the erosion control structures, but it will be able to roll […]
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By GERRY LEBING
September 20, 1929 – May 30, 2016 KNOTTS ISLAND — Barbara Redmon Crockett, 86, died on Monday, May 30,2016 at Seaside Health Center at Atlantic Shores Retirement Communityin Virginia Beach, Va. Born in Chicago, Ill., she was the daughter ofthe late Harold R. Redmon and Lucille Bittner Redmon. Barbara was anurse who also did volunteer […]
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Dr. Beach’s annual list of the Top 10 U.S. beaches was released yesterday, just before the Memorial Day weekend, and a beach the Cape Hatteras National Seashore is again on the list. This year the Ocracoke Lifeguarded Beach is back on the list again — ranking as fourth in the 10 best. The Ocracoke Beach […]
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The National Hurricane Center has upgraded an area of disturbed weather southeast of Charleston, S.C., to a tropical depression, the second tropical cyclone of the 2016 season, and issued a tropical storm warning for the South Carolina coast. However, even if the depression becomes Tropical Storm Bonnie later tonight or Saturday morning, the system is […]
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The long Memorial Day weekend is here already, and it’s starting out hot and sunny. The National Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on some showers and thunderstorms northwest of the Bahamas that its forecasters are giving a 90 percent chance of becoming a tropical or subtropical storm by tomorrow. But the good news […]
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By ROB ALDERMAN By ROB ALDERMAN That time is once again upon us. The time when taking a five-minute drive turns into 15 or 20 minutes. The time when you walk into your favorite restaurant and you don’t know everyone sitting inside. The time when you go into the grocery store and there is no […]
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The U.S. Coast Guard and a good Samaritan fishing vessel crew rescued four survivors following a “in-air mishap” involving two U.S. Navy jets 25 miles east of Oregon Inlet this morning. Coast Guard Fifth District Command Center watchstanders were notified at 10:30 a.m. that two planes suffered what the military termed an “in-air mishap” and […]
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The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission adopted stricter blue crab regulations at its meeting last week. According to a news release from the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, the measures are meant to improve the condition of the state’s blue crab stock. Commercial and recreational crabbers should expect most of the regulations to take effect […]
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