Despite the Outer Banks’ disproportionately large contribution in fishing license fees, the region has been shorted its share of artificial fishing reefs compared with the rest of the North Carolina coast. But the Outer Banks Anglers Club is looking forward to approval within months of a permit that will allow construction of a new recreational […]
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Renovated Center Showcases First Flight
By Catherine Kozak COASTAL REVIEW ONLINE It could be argued that the reopening of the 1960 visitor center at Wright Brothers National Memorial earlier this month reinforces the keys to Orville and Wilbur Wrights’ success: patience and persistence. Beset for much of its 58-year-existence by a leaking roof and a malfunctioning heating and air conditioning […]
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Rising Seas: Park Managers Are Taking Heed
National parks on the North Carolina coast are some of the most threatened by rising seas in the nation, but in the context of wildfires, droughts, invasive species and excessive rain events plaguing the parks in the interior states, coastal woes are hardly the only problem the National Park Service is facing from climate change. […]
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Dare Moving Ahead on Inlet Dredge Plan
By CATHERINE KOZAK COASTAL ONLINE REVIEW As the need for dredging in North Carolina waterways has long ago surpassed the availability of funds and equipment to dredge, Dare County, with the help of $15 million provided in the recent state budget, is about to try something different: Build a dedicated dredge to maintain its waterways. […]
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Bonner Bridge Replacement Work Continues
It was not as long ago as it may feel to many Outer Banks residents, but it was indeed last century when planning for the replacement for the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet began. As the massive deck under construction dwarfs the adjacent 55-year-old span that will soon be gone, it may be […]
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Ocracoke Express Ferry Expected This Fall
Shortages of qualified marine welders and American-made aluminum has delayed initial plans for a mid-summer launch of the Ocracoke Express, the state’s first high-speed passenger ferry. But that doesn’t mean that Outer Bankers won’t possibly be taking a few spins on the new vessel and tram service this year. “I just think it will give […]
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Hatteras Inlet’s Navigable Condition and Emergency Ferry Channel Covered at Waterways Commission Meeting
As the fishing tournament season kicked off this week in Hatteras, members of the Dare County Waterways Commission were relieved that conditions in Hatteras Inlet are finally in good shape. “We’ve got the best channel we’ve had in four or five years,” Commissioner Steve “Creature” Coulter, a Hatteras charter boat captain, said at Monday’s […]
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Hyde County Adopts Derelict Vessel Rule
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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Trams Coming to Ocracoke, and Other Updates from the Passenger Ferry Stakeholders Meeting
By CATHERINE KOZAK Funding has finally been secured for trams that will serve customers on the new passenger ferry in Ocracoke village, with the state agreeing to provide up to one-half the operating costs for four years. “It’s great news,” Hyde County Manager Bill Rich said at last week’s Passenger Ferry Stakeholders Committee meeting in […]
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With Weather Delays, it’s Down to the Wire for Hatteras Inlet Dredging BY CATHERINE KOZAK
BY CATHERINE KOZAK BY CATHERINE KOZAK It’s getting down to the wire for a dredging project in Hatteras Inlet to be started and completed by month’s end, but members of the Dare County Waterways Commission are keeping their fingers crossed that weather will be more cooperative by the weekend. Joen Petersen, chief of plants for […]
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