(Updated at 5:00 p.m. to add high surf and wind advisories for Outer Banks and link to National Weather Service PowerPoint on the weekend storm.) It looks as if the Outer Banks will be spared the ice and snow that is forecast for north and west of the area from tomorrow into Sunday morning as […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The Dare County Board of Commissioners last night approved spending $58,640 on an Economic Diversification Strategic Plan proposed by North Carolina State University’s Office of Outreach and Engagement. The vote was unanimous and came after a public hearing on the proposal drew just one speaker, Karen Brown, president and […]
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The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Plant Industry Division still plans to spray an area this spring in Buxton that is heavily invested with gypsy moths, but said this week that, because of budget constraints, the area will be smaller. At one point in the fall, the division had said it would […]
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It seems that there’s always talk by local officials, politicians, and business leaders about economic development, but Dare’s Board of Commissioners is poised to next week take an important step forward toward growing and diversifying the county’s economy. At the board’s Jan. 4 meeting, North Carolina State University’s Office of Outreach & Engagement presented a […]
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The National Park Service has just announced that the new Inside Road, which connects Ramps 44 and 49 in Frisco, has been completed and that construction has started on Ramp 63, about three miles south of the ferry docks on Ocracoke. The projects are all part of the infrastructure initiatives that the Park Service expedited […]
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Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative has been expecting construction to start on its new Community Solar Garden any day now for about a month. First, weather at its other construction sites slowed down the contractor, Hannah Solar, which has also been involved with other community solar projects for North Carolina electric cooperatives. And now the […]
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By IRENE NOLAN The Dare County Board of Commissioners at yesterday’s meeting passed an ordinance to address the issue of feral cats in unincorporated areas of the county. The board members unanimously passed most of a draft ordinance, presented by county manager and attorney Robert Outten. The board has received numerous complaints from residents about […]
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By IRENE NOLAN Bob Woodard, chairman of the Dare County Board of Commissioners, talked about county issues on Sunday, Jan. 3, on the Radio Hatteras Interview show, “To the Point,” hosted by Island Free Press editor Irene Nolan. Woodard of Kill Devil Hills was elected to the county board in 2012. In December 2014 after […]
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By IRENE NOLAN The record warmth of December was but a memory this morning on the Outer Banks as an Arctic cold front moved through the area, and the temperature started dropping as the wind picked up. The National Weather Service in Newport/Morehead City, N.C., has issued a wind advisory for the area from 5 […]
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My last blog for December often has a year-end theme of some sort, looking back on the year that is ending or looking forward to the new one. However, mostly I stay away from the “top news stories of the year” sort of article. For one thing, every writer or media outlet seems to do […]
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