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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For a number of years, I was embarrassed to talk about my debilitating health issues. That’s what I called them – “health issues.” We live in a polite society, and it is uncomfortable for most of us to have our most personal bodily functions and ailments made public and certainly to speak of them was […]
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There were many weighty and complicated issues in the recently released National Park Service Environmental Impact Statement on Off-Road Vehicle Rulemaking at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. But the one I keep coming back to and going over in my mind is the change in beach campfire regulations under the Park Service?s preferred alternative. I […]
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The National Park Service has relented on some of the buffers to protect shorebirds during the nesting season in its recently released Final Environmental Impact Statement. But it hasn?t budged an inch ? so to speak ? on the 1,000-meter buffers to protect unfledged piping plover chicks. Buffer distances were reduced from the draft EIS, […]
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The initial response to the National Park Service’s Final Environmental Impact Statement on ORV regulation on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore has been muted so far. That is predictable when the document involved runs more than 1,000 pages and comes in two volumes. The main document runs more than 700 pages with 427 pages of […]
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The National Park Service has released the Final Environmental Impact statement (FEIS) for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Off-Road Vehicle Management Plan. The final plan/EIS evaluates two no-action alternatives and four action alternatives for managing ORV use and identifies their potential environmental consequences. The Park Service has chosen Alternative F in the FEIS as its […]
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U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., spent the better part of a day last week on the Outer Banks for what was billed as an ?information session? on replacing the Bonner Bridge. It was yet another step in a concerted effort by North Carolina?s congressional delegation and local officials to bring two agencies together, so the […]
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By IRENE NOLAN Dare County’s 26,758 registered voters came out in good numbers yesterday for a mid-term election that has excited voters across the nation who clamored for change – mostly in Washington, D.C., but also in some state and local races. Though some commentators had predicted a lackluster turnout, that didn’t happen in North […]
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BY IRENE NOLAN Turnout was strong in Hyde County for the 2010 General Election, as it was statewide and in Dare County. Forty-seven percent of Hyde’s 3,633 registered voters went to the polls. Statewide, the number was 42 percent of registered voters, and in Dare County, it was 45 percent. Democrats fared better in Hyde […]
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By IRENE NOLAN With only four more days to go in one-stop absentee voting, 541,693 North Carolinians had voted by yesterday, Tuesday, Oct. 26. The information was provided by the North Carolina Board of Elections and is posted on the Civitas Institute’s Vote Tracker website. Here is some more information about early and absentee voters, […]
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