The first Bodie Island Lighthouse tipped over. The second one was blown up by soldiers. The first Bodie Island Lighthouse tipped over. The second one was blown up by soldiers. The first Bodie Island Lighthouse tipped over. The second one was blown up by soldiers. The first Bodie Island Lighthouse tipped over. The second one […]
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Long-vacant housing units at former Coast Guard Group Cape Hatteras in Buxton have been sold to a Virginia Beach family-owned partnership that plans to fix them and rent them. After a nearly two-month Government Services Administration online auction, a $2,625,000 bid was accepted on Dec. 20 from Lee Pontes of Virginia Beach, manager of the […]
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Beach nourishment has been essentially taken off the table as a permanent fix at two temporary repairs on the northern end of Highway 12 on Hatteras Island. But a dramatically different alternative that materialized out of the blue is now being considered. At a Dec. 15 meeting of a team of state and federal agency […]
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A revised rule expanding the winter commercial bluefin tuna season by up to two months was filed on Tuesday, Nov. 29, by the National Marine Fisheries Service. The rule, which will be effective in 30 days, allows bluefin to be caught off North Carolina through March 31, or until the January sub-quota is gone. With […]
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Bluefin tuna have been plentiful during February in recent years off North Carolina. But unfortunately for Outer Banks watermen, the commercial season has been over at the end of January. This winter may be different. A pending rule change in the Atlantic bluefin tuna fishery is expected to extend the season to allow more of […]
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When the dredge Currituck pulled out of Oregon Inlet last Thursday, Nov. 10, the navigational channel under the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge was easily 9 feet deep. By Saturday afternoon, it was about 3 feet, a stunning rate of shoaling even for the notoriously volatile waterway. “I don’t know what happened,” said Roger Bullock, […]
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By CATHERINE KOZAK By CATHERINE KOZAK The lawsuit over construction of the Bonner Bridge replacement will not be decided in federal court anytime soon. A recent filing in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina details a proposed schedule, which all parties agreed to, that stretches into late summer 2012. Defenders of […]
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BY CATHERINE KOZAK BY CATHERINE KOZAK Bidding on long-vacant U.S. Coast Guard Group Cape Hatteras family housing units in Buxton will be opened in two weeks, with a minimum offer set at $2.5 million. An invitation for bid package was posted late last week on the General Services Administration website, along with a notice about […]
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Mosquitoes getting under control; no more aerial spraying planned BY CATHERINE KOZAK BY CATHERINE KOZAK BY CATHERINE KOZAK A second and final aerial spraying followed by mercifully cooler temperatures on the Outer Banks appears to have ended one of the worst plagues of mosquitoes in memory. “It was terrible,” Carl Walker, Dare County Vector Control […]
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Loggerhead sea turtles that spend at least part of their lives off the coast of North Carolina have been maintained as threatened on the federal Endangered Species Act list, unlike their U.S. Pacific Coast counterparts which are now listed as endangered. The final rule issued last week by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and […]
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