When Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward Hatteras and Ocracoke during the first week of September last year, it was closely followed by Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel. Cantore showed up in Hatteras to broadcast on the island on Thursday morning, Sept. 4. That night he broadcast live from Hatteras village. By the next morning, […]
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The problem with our national parks is that they are no longer for the people
July 14, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 6
In an interesting blog posted on the New York Times Web site last week and republished as an op-ed piece in some newspapers, Timothy Egan, Seattle bureau chief for the newspaper, bemoans the state of the national park system. He cites the declining visits to the parks and that all visitors look the same ? […]
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Let the air out of your tires â PLEASE
July 9, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 16
It happened again. It was another summer holiday weekend, and once again there were problems with off-road vehicles stuck on the seashore?s ramps. Lots of them. John McCutcheon, Hatteras Island?s head district ranger for the park, said that there were 91 ?visitor assists? for the week that ended on the July 4 holiday. Almost all […]
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SELC’s latest spin on the fantastic consent decree
July 2, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 12
The Southern Environmental Law Center, which represented Defenders of Wildlife and the National Audubon Society in their lawsuit again the National Park Service over ORV use on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, has just released more of its fantasy thinking on the terrific success of the fantastic consent decree. This time the SELC spin comes […]
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What the SELC won’t show you ¦ WITH SLIDE SHOW
June 29, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 32
The Southern Environmental Law Center, which represented Defenders of Wildlife and the National Audubon Society in their lawsuit again the National Park Service over ORV use on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, has sent out press releases and information about the dire state of shorebirds on seashore beaches. One of the claims is that the […]
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If you didn’t like my blog on access, you really won’t like this take on it
June 23, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 13
If you did not like what I wrote in my blog titled ?Don?t beat up on the county commissioners,? you really won?t like today?s editorial in The Virginian-Pilot. That editorial is entitled ?Washington leaps into Hatteras fight.? Never mind, that it?s not even news since Washington has been involved in the ?fight? since last […]
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Blogging about the blog
June 21, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 5
I have always believed that a newspaper should be a marketplace of ideas — a forum for the community to express its views and opinions. That has certainly happened on my last blog, titled ?Don?t beat up the county about beach access ? there are better ways to spend our time.? And that is good. To set the […]
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Don’t beat up the county about beach access – there are better ways to spend our time
June 18, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 102
A standing room only crowd of about 125 people showed up at the meeting of the Dare County Board of Commissioners on Monday evening, June 15. They came to speak at the meeting?s public comment period about the beach access issues on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Twenty-five folks stepped up to the microphone to […]
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Rainbows over Hatteras ¦ WITH A SLIDE SHOW
June 15, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 1
By late afternoon on Friday, June 12, it looked as if Hatteras Island would get a really big thunderstorm. The National Weather Service had posted a severe thunderstorm watch, and radar showed big blobs of red ? storms across the sound. The thunder echoed as the sky grew darker, and the system moved west toward […]
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Replacing the Bonner Bridge may be moving forward again — just maybe
June 12, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 5
Dare County?s Citizens? Action Committee to Replace the Bonner Bridge met for the first time in almost a year on Wednesday, June 10. And, for the first time in quite some months, the committee and county officials were energized and hopeful that the effort to build a replacement for the aging Herbert C. Bonner Bridge […]
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