A wildfire north of Avon that closed Highway 12 for more than four hours last night has burned approximately 20 acres in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. At noon today, the fire was about 50 percent contained, according to Bert Plante, fire management officer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and incident commander. The […]
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It’s been nine months this week — 276 days — since the North Carolina Department of Transportation announced that it was stopping work on the permanent bridge over Pea Island Inlet and entering into negotiations with the Southern Environmental Law Center to end the legal wrangling over replacing the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over Oregon […]
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The Dare County Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education appear to have reached an agreement on the schools’ budget for the 2016 fiscal year. Last evening, in the last of two budget workshops, the commissioners signed off on a plan to trim the county’s proposed $101.9 million budget by another $400,000 to help […]
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The next book in the Hatteras Island Reads community reading program was the topic of the most recent edition of the Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point,” which was broadcast on Sunday, June 7. The book is “Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America” by Tom Carlson, a retired professor of creative […]
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The North Carolina Board of Transportation yesterday approved the 2016-2017 State Transportation Improvement Plan, a 10-year plan that includes nearly 1,100 projects in the state over the next decade. The plan is the first developed using the Strategic Mobility Formula, which ranks projects according to their impact on statewide, regional, and local levels. The formula […]
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Dare County’s proposed budget for the 2016 fiscal year, which begins July 1, was presented at the May 18 meeting of the Dare County Board of Commissioners and will be the topic of a public hearing by the board on Monday, June 1. Also on the agenda at Monday’s meeting is a discussion of a […]
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Repairs to the concrete along the underside and to the steel crutch bents on the Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet are on schedule to be completed by mid-June, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The bridge has remained open to traffic during these projects. However, lane closures have been in place Monday through […]
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(Editor’s Note: This week’s blog is the speech that I gave in 2013 at the annual Memorial Day observance in Hatteras village, which is sponsored by the island’s U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.) Good morning. And thank you for this opportunity to speak on a day that we remember those who have given their lives in […]
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Dr. Beach’s 25th annual list of the Top 10 U.S. beaches was released yesterday, just before the Memorial Day weekend, and Cape Hatteras Beach in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore is again on the list. This year the seashore beach ranks No. 5 on the list – up one from last year’s No. 6 spot […]
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David Hallac, superintendent of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, was the guest on the most recent edition of the Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point,” which was broadcast on Sunday, May 17. In the interview, Hallac talks about the alterations in wildlife protection buffers that have been proposed by the National Park Service in […]
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