Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) is calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to allocate additional funding to dredge Oregon and Hatteras Inlets. In a letter sent to Corps leadership, Congressman Jones highlighted the navigation conditions at both inlets. He also pointed out that the amounts provided in the administration’s fiscal year 2018 budget […]
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The bluefin was reeled in by a retired Army general visiting from Townsend, Delaware, and was caught on trolling dead bait on 130-pound line test on a 130 Shimano road and reel. The angler, Scott Chambers, was aboard the local charter boat A-Salt Weapon with Capt. Dennis Endee out of Pirate’s Cove Marina. The bluefin […]
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Culinary art will join the visual and performing arts at Dare County Arts Council’s sixth annual Rock The Cape Festival, which will return to Hatteras Island Memorial Day weekend. On Monday, May 28 The Inn on Pamlico Sound will bring the culinary arts to Rock The Cape, for the first time since its inception, with […]
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Ahoy, mateys! If ye be sailing for Ocracoke or Bath this year, be prepared to do so under the black flag of the dreaded pirate Blackbeard. The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources has teamed up with the NCDOT’s Ferry Division to fly the flag in observance of the 300th anniversary of Blackbeard’s […]
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OUTER BANKS SENTINEL The Dare Board of Commissioners listened respectfully to an April 3 presentation advocating for seismic surveys and the possibility of offshore drilling off the North Carolina coast, but remained convinced that it carried an unacceptable risk. Speaking at the morning commissioners meeting, John Droz argued that, “The only way that citizens and […]
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On Saturday, April 21, the North Carolina Beach Buggy Association’s “Operation Beach Respect,” a Beach and a Highway clean-up program, will be conducted by NCBBA Members, National Park Service Employee volunteers and other volunteers who will patrol each beach access ramp from Oregon Inlet (Ramp 2 ) to Hatteras to hand out information packets including […]
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Storm-driven tide crashing on to your waterfront yard is bad enough, but Hyde County Manager Bill Rich saw visions of doom when a 45-foot boat in Silver Lake headed straight toward his house. “It looked like the Titanic was coming through my bedroom,” Rich recounted in an interview last week. As fortune had it, Rich’s […]
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Rangers and maintenance staff from the National Park Service (NPS) recently embarked on a project to remove the scattered asphalt that has appeared along the Old Lighthouse Beach in Buxton. Photos that were posted on Facebook showed before and after shots of the shoreline, with large chunks of piled asphalt removed from the final landscape. […]
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By JOY CRIST At a public meeting with the Dare County Board of Commissioners (BOC) in March, a number of controversial topics with varying viewpoints were brought to attention (i.e., beach nourishment.) Speakers would head to the podium to share their thoughts with the BOC, and were met with applause, the shaking of heads, […]
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After a month-long dredging effort by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the North Carolina Ferry System is returning to its regular published schedule on the Cedar Island-Ocracoke and Swan Quarter-Ocracoke ferry routes as of 4:30 p.m. today. All vehicle size and weight restrictions have also been lifted. The dredging began in March, after the […]
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