Island Free Press photographer Don Bowers has put together his view of the year on Hatteras and Ocracoke through his camera lens. The photos cover events large and small that are basically very community oriented. And that’s what life is like every year for islanders and our regular visitors. The slide show begins last year […]
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The Federal Highway Administration signed a Record of Decision (ROD) late this afternoon that clears the way for the North Carolina Department of Transportation to move ahead with the construction of a replacement for the aging Herbert C. Bonner Bridge across Oregon Inlet. And NCDOT is not letting any grass grow under its feet in […]
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The effort to restore reasonable access to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches got some national attention today — at long last. ?Fox and Friends,? the early morning news show on the Fox News cable network, featured a segment on beach access this morning. The segment was part of Fox?s ?It?s Your Land? series of […]
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The Record of Decision (ROD) on the National Park Service’s Final Environmental Impact Statement on Off-Road Vehicle Management at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore is scheduled the be signed on Monday, Dec. 20, Mike Murray said yesterday in a meeting with local reporters. The Notice of Availability of the ROD will be published in the […]
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On a cold and windy Sunday afternoon earlier this month, I leaned over the second floor balcony at the beach house known as Serendipity and watched a steady stream of excited visitors come through the door for a house tour. They were wide-eyed and full of anticipation. Many carried cameras, ready to capture the moment, […]
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The annual Hatteras Village Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 11, was wet and soggy and foggy and cold. However, people still lined the parade route, and their spirits were high. Most stayed in their vehicles until the parade was in sight and then gamely got out and watched in their rain slickers, some with umbrellas […]
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Who would have thought that we would look forward to another summer under the consent decree? When the consent decree was signed off on by all the parties to a lawsuit against the National Park Service, beach access advocates were not happy. The National Audubon Society and Defenders of Wildlife, represented by the Southern Environmental […]
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Registered voters in the southern Hatteras Island villages of Buxton, Frisco, and Hatteras will go to their polling places on Tuesday, Dec. 7, to cast a ballot in a referendum on the sale of liquor by the drink in restaurants and some other venues. If the measure passes, mixed drinks would be allowed only in […]
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Last Tuesday, I posted a blog, entitled ?The Last Beach Fire?? Quite a few comments about this were posted at the end of the blog, but the next day I had an e-mail from an Island Free Press reader who was confused by the new regulations proposed in the National Park Service?s Final Environmental Impact […]
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Bob Spangler’s 50-mile run from Oregon Inlet to Hatteras Inlet on Saturday, Nov. 27, began well before daylight – at 4:09 a.m. at the south end of the Bonner Bridge. It ended 121/2 hours later at the Hatteras Inlet Ferry Docks, just as the sun was setting in the western sky. Along the way, Spangler, […]
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