UPDATE:   Hurricane Irene Cuts Inlets on Northern Hatteras Island

UPDATE:   Hurricane Irene Cuts Inlets on Northern Hatteras Island By Catherine Kozak By Catherine Kozak Hurricane Irene piled up historic levels of sound tide and left Hatteras Islanders with little communication and no electricity. But worse, eight years after Hurricane Isabel slashed an inlet between Frisco and Hatteras, the storm left the island severed. […]

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Dig for Civil War cannons at Hatteras Inlet ends in disappointment

They had maps, ground-penetrating radar images, and historical accounts all pointing to two buried cannons where the Civil War battle at Fort Clark raged 150 years ago at Hatteras Inlet.   Early Thursday, under the direction of Cape Hatteras National Seashore historian Doug Stover and assisted by Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum executive director Joseph […]

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Dig for Civil War cannons at Hatteras Inlet ends in disappointment

They had maps, ground-penetrating radar images, and historical accounts all pointing to two buried cannons where the Civil War battle at Fort Clark raged 150 years ago at Hatteras Inlet.   Early Thursday, under the direction of Cape Hatteras National Seashore historian Doug Stover and assisted by Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum executive director Joseph […]

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Ocracoke teaching center loses jobs and seminars

Ocracoke teaching center loses jobs and seminars Ocracoke teaching center loses jobs and seminars BY CATHERINE KOZAK BY CATHERINE KOZAK With two positions eliminated from the Ocracoke campus of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teachers, administrators are still unclear what the long-term impact will be of operating with 50 percent less funding.   […]

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UPDATE: DOT says it has adequately addressed concerns raised by lawsuit and will continue work as planned

By CATHERINE KOZAK By CATHERINE KOZAK Despite a last minute lawsuit seeking to stop the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge replacement project, work will continue as planned unless a federal judge says otherwise, a spokesperson for the state Department of Transportation said on Wednesday. “We’re going to stay on our timeline,” said Greer Beaty, DOT’s director […]

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Few people know Stumpy Point as well as Jasper Hooper, who can claim the mantle of the village’s oldest man.  And Hooper says the 70-square-mile Pains Bay wildfire is the worst he can remember since the 1920s. “When I was a little boy, there was a wildfire that burned everything down to its roots,” Hooper, […]

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Hatteras-based Citation ‘disinvited’ to Big Rock Tournament, still appealing last year’s decision

The Hatteras-based charter boat that gained worldwide notoriety last year for being disqualified from more than $1 million in winnings thanks to a lapsed $15 fishing license, won’t be fishing in next week’s Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament. Organizers apparently don’t want to risk more sticky publicity or making legal matters worse. “The Citation has […]

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