June 30, 1928 – September 27, 2016 AVON — Marceline G.Gray, 88, of went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, September 27, 2016. Anative of Avon, she was born on June 30, 1928 to the late Seymour andSara Gray and was the widow of Billy Gray. Marceline was a member ofSt. John United Methodist […]
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The state Division of Marine Fisheries is reminding anglers that the recreational cobia season closes in state waters this Friday, Sept. 30. Once the season closes, anglers must immediately release any cobia they catch, but for the rest of this week the regulations remain as adopted by the Marine Fisheries Commission in May: By default, […]
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It’s a surprisingly hot late September afternoon on Hatteras Island, and a trio of beach-goers on the Rodanthe shoreline near Sea Isle Hills Drive have decided to cool off by jumping into the ocean for a swim – right in front of a posted sign that warns of rip currents in the immediate area. Chet […]
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Three coastal counties have joined with commercial fishermen in litigation against the state of North Carolina over last year’s decision by the Marine Fisheries Commission to adopt new regulations on the southern flounder fishery by using the “supplement” process. Stevenson Weeks, an attorney with Wheatly, Wheatly, Weeks, Lupton & Massie of Beaufort and Todd Roessler […]
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In a special meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 21, the Dare County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to join in a lawsuit against the state’s Marine Fisheries Commission over its use of a supplement process that plaintiffs say will drastically and unfairly reduce the commercial and recreational catch of southern flounder. The vote was 6-0. Commissioner […]
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By CATHERINE KOZAK Coastal Review Online It’s been six years since the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management proposed siting wind energy production off Kitty Hawk, and now the agency is preparing to actually offer leases in offshore blocks more than 20 miles from the beach. An online auction for the lease sites is expected […]
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With the kids back in school, temperatures falling and days getting shorter, the annual transition to off-season schedules will begin next week for the North Carolina Ferry System. Over the next six weeks, several gradual changes will occur on four of the ferry system’s seven routes: Pamlico Sound: Both the Cedar Island-Ocracoke and Swan Quarter-Ocracoke […]
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This week’s blog is a big “thank you” card to Dare County’s Department of Public Works, which made really quick work of the debris left behind by Tropical Storm Hermine’s soundside flooding on Sept. 3. The storm surge was on the higher end of what the National Weather Service had forecast and what even many […]
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Earlier this summer and fall, the Outer Banks Community Foundation awarded more than $150,000 in grants to over 35 local nonprofits, including several on Hatteras Islsand. The grants will assist with a wide range of community efforts, from food assistance to special needs programs, public safety to animal welfare, educational efforts to athletic programs for […]
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Whether they regard oysters as delicious delicacies or repulsive lumps of slime, North Carolinians should rightfully rejoice at the construction planned this winter of a new oyster sanctuary at the mouth of the Neuse River. Down-home oyster roasts and upscale oysters-on-a-half shell dinners are hotter than ever in the local food movement, but more oysters […]
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