This afternoon Earl Younce, owner of the Avon Motel, was waiting for the contractor to arrive to begin the demolition and cleanup of half of his business, which was destroyed by fire yesterday. “It’s completely gone — all 26 rooms,” he said about the north building of the motel. “It’s got to be leveled.” The […]
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Dare County’s new emergency management coordinator, Drew Pearson, was the guest on the Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point,” on Sunday, June 21. Pearson joined Dare’s Emergency Management last August as deputy to coordinator Sandy Sanderson. He took over the office when Sanderson retired on March 1 after 20 years in the job. He […]
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North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources Secretary Susan Kluttz will host a discussion of Gov. Pat McCrory’s new “Connect NC” bond proposal on Thursday, June 25, at 11 a.m. at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras village. The governor’s $2.85 billion bond proposal, which must be approved by both the General Assembly in […]
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In a statement this evening, Sen. Bill Cook explained why he opposes a 1/4-cent sales tax without a referendum that has been requested by the Dare County Board of Commissioners to pay for dredging of the county’s inlets. At the board’s request, Rep. Paul Tine introduced the bill, House Bill 388, in late March. It […]
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We’ve had a lot of good news this week on the islands, but topping the list has got to be the announcement of an end to the 25-year struggle to replacing the decrepit Herbert C. Bonner bridge over Oregon Inlet. All of the parties to the legal wrangling over the new bridge met at the […]
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The National Park Service announced today that it will prepare an Environmental Assessment — instead of a more complicated Environmental Impact Statement — to streamline its assessment of a Dare County project to nourish beaches in north Buxton. The county’s project, which is being undertaken to protect Highway 12 from erosion and ocean overwash, will […]
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The wildfire that burned 15 to 20 acres north of Avon over the weekend was “most likely human caused,” according to David Hallac, superintendent of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Hallac said this evening that he had just received the results of the preliminary investigation from Bert Plante, fire management officer for the U.S. Fish […]
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The National Park Service has approved a plan for how it will comply with changes in wildlife protections on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore that are required by legislation passed last December by the U.S. Congress. Among other things, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore legislation, passed as part of the National Defense Authorization Bill, instructs […]
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Thirty-eight seniors received their diplomas at Saturday evening’s graduation ceremony at Cape Hatteras Secondary School of Coastal Studies. Friends and family members of the graduates filled William P. Dillon Gymnasium on a hot and humid night as thunderstorms threatened but didn’t rain on the parade of the Class of 2015. The Cape Hatteras Secondary School […]
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The wildfire that began late Friday night, June 12, just north of Avon was 100 percent contained by early Saturday evening, according to David Hallac, superintendent of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Hallac said the total area burned by the blaze was somewhere between 15 and 20 acres. The cause is still undetermined, though the […]
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