If you thought you had done your civic duty submitting public comments on the National Park Service?s Draft Environmental Impact Statement on off-road vehicle rulemaking on the seashore, think again. In fact, 2010 might be the busiest year ever for making public comment on projects and issues that will have a profound effect on our […]
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Park Service seeking driver of ORV that crushed loggerhead on Ocracoke
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Cape Hatteras National Seashore Superintendent Mike Murray has denied a request by the Southern Environmental Law Center to expand night-driving restrictions after the death of a nesting loggerhead turtle last month on Ocracoke. The turtle was crushed by an off-road vehicle, probably in the early morning hours of June […]
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Hatteras-based Citation disqualified in Big Rock; local captains criticize decision
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The drama that has played out on fishing boards and social networking sites across the country for the past three days ended this evening when the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament Board of Directors disqualified the Hatteras-based boat that brought a record 883-pound fish to the dock on June […]
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Big Rock still has no winner — with almost $1 million in first-prize money at stake
There is still no official winner in last week’s Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament. Almost $1 million in prize money is riding on whether a mate on the Hatteras-based Citation, the boat that caught a record-breaking blue marlin that should have taken the top prize, had a North Carolina recreational fishing license, which is required […]
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Democrats vote Tuesday, June 22, in primary election runoff
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Two Democrats who want to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr will face each other in a primary runoff on Tuesday, June 22. The two candidates in the runoff are Elaine Marshall, the four-term North Carolina secretary of state, and Cal Cunningham, a Lexington, N.C., attorney and former state […]
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Air Force jet combat practice provides a show for Hatteras islanders
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN GeeGee Rosell, owner of Buxton Village Books, heard the roaring jets, which are not unusual here on the Outer Banks. But last night, she also heard loud booms and after dark saw what she described as “red and gold” flashes of light out over the ocean. “I felt as […]
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Four seniors receive their diplomas at Ocracoke graduation ….WITH SLIDE SHOW AND VIDEO
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Ocracoke School can probably lay claim to having the smallest graduating class in North Carolina this year. In a commencement ceremony on Sunday evening, June 13, four seniors at the school, which includes kindergarten through 12th grade, received their diplomas. The graduates are Aaron Parker Caswell, Jordan Elizabeth Jones, […]
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Gov. Beverly Perdue delivers a message to the Cape Hatteras Class of 2010….WITH SLIDE SHOW
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Gov. Beverly Perdue, the keynote speaker at the Cape Hatteras Secondary School of Coastal Studies 2010 Commencement, urged the 51 graduates to “become the next generation of great citizens of North Carolina.” “This state and this country need you,” she told the Class of 2010 at the ceremony in […]
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Replacing the Bonner Bridge may be back on track
The off-again, on-again project to replace the aging Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet is on again. The North Carolina Department of Transportation signed off on yet another Environmental Assessment (EA) on the project last month. And the conclusion is that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) believes that that new EA and the 2008 […]
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New environmental study on Bonner Bridge released; public meetings planned for July
Dare County’s Citizen Action Committee to replace the Bonner Bridge, www.replacethebridgenow.com, is planning meetings to help the public prepare comments on the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Environmental Assessment (EA) on replacing the aging span over Oregon Inlet. The EA is the latest in years of environmental studies about the bridge, which is rated a […]
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