Hurricane Danny, a powerful Category 3 storm just last Friday, was downgraded to a tropical storm over the weekend and then to a low pressure area just west-southwest of Guadeloupe Monday morning, defeated by wind shear and dry air. The National Hurricane Center stopped issuing advisories on Danny at 11 a.m. today, and forecasters turned […]
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It’s time to catch up with some of the issues that we in the news business have been covering for much of this year, beginning with the dire state of Hatteras Inlet. HATTERAS INLET The county’s southernmost inlet took a back seat for much of this year as officials scrambled to find short- and long-term […]
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The National Hurricane Center today upgraded Hurricane Danny to a Category 3 storm, with winds of 115 miles an hour — a major hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. At 5 p.m., the center of Danny was located about 860 miles east of the Windward Islands and the storm was moving to the west-northwest at 10 […]
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The National Hurricane Center late this morning upgraded Tropical Storm Danny in the eastern Atlantic to hurricane status — a Category 1 with winds calculated at 80 miles per hour. At 5 p.m. this afternoon, the storm was about 1,030 miles east of the Windward Islands and was moving west-northwest at 10 mph. The Hurricane […]
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Just hours after the Coast Guard urged mariners not to use the South Ferry Channel at Hatteras Inlet, a county waterways panel convened again in Hatteras village to seek solutions to stubborn shoaling in the channel that is being called “catastrophic.” “Recent hydrographic surveys indicate shoaling in South Ferry Channel has resulted in an average […]
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The National Park Service today reopened Cape Point for pedestrian access, but it will likely be another two weeks before it will open to off-road vehicle access. According to Randy Swilling, the seashore’s natural resources program manager, the last remaining American oystercatcher chick at Cape Point fledged yesterday, and a least tern colony has finished […]
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The National Park Service has just finished another round of public scoping meetings on possible changes to its off-road-vehicle management plan for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Legislation passed by Congress last December as part of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Bill instructed the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a public process to consider […]
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Dare County’s new medical transport helicopter will be on display Wednesday, Aug. 19, at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in celebration of National Aviation Day. In addition to the new aircraft, the county’s current BK-117 medical helicopter will also be on display, along with an array of over 10 other planes and helicopters. Dare MedFlight, […]
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The North Carolina Senate today passed House Bill 117, the “N.C. Competes” economic development legislation that includes a scaled back plan to redistribute sales tax revenue. The plan, even in its scaled back version, would take more than $4 million in revenue from Dare County and has motivated local officials to mount a fierce campaign […]
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Counties, including Dare, that would be economically devastated by the state Senate’s plan to change the way the state distributes the local option sales tax stepped up their opposition this week with news conferences, web postings, and e-mail alerts. As the week wore on, the Senate blinked, but it refused to totally ditch the redistribution […]
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