It’s not been easy in the past month or so keeping up with what’s happening in Raleigh and Manteo and how various proposed bills, motions, and resolutions might affect what you pay in taxes. For instance, consider the issue of sales tax. We’ve had a lot of headlines in The Island Free Press lately with […]
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NPS Centennial budget request seeks funding for maintenance backlog
National Park Service’s budget request for the fiscal year 2016, which is before Congress, includes a major effort to reduce the maintenance backlog for the NPS centennial in 2016, according to Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. The National Park Service late last month released its fiscal year 2014 deferred maintenance statistics for national parks. The $11.49 […]
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UPDATED: Sailor missing for 66 days rescued off Cape Hatteras…WITH AUDIO AND VIDEO
A 37-year-old South Carolina sailor, who was reported missing in late January, tonight walked into a Norfolk, Va., hospital after his rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard about 200 miles east of Cape Hatteras. The sailor, Louis Jordan, apparently suffered only a shoulder injury during the ordeal on his 35-foot sailboat, Angel. The Coast Guard […]
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UPDATE: State House passes bill allowing Dare sales tax hike
By IRENE NOLAN The North Carolina House of Representatives today passed a bill that will allow Dare County to raise the local sales tax by 1/4 percent without a voter referendum to pay for inlet dredging. The vote was 114-3. The bill, House Bill 388, which was introduced Monday and amended yesterday, now moves to […]
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UPDATED: Bill to increase sales tax is filed — and already amended
By IRENE NOLAN As requested by the Dare County Board of Commissioners, a bill has been introduced in the General Assembly to give the board the power to increase the sales tax in the county by 1/4-cent to pay for dredging Oregon and Hatteras inlets. The bill, House Bill 388, was introduced yesterday by Rep. […]
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The pressure is on the Dare County commissioners
Toward the end of his comments at today’s special meeting and just before the Board of Commissioners voted on a resolution to ask the General Assembly to authorize a quarter-cent sales tax increase without a referendum to pay for inlet dredging, Chairman Bob Woodard asked the sheriff’s deputies in the meeting room to turn out […]
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Board of Commissioners will meet twice this week
By IRENE NOLAN The Dare County Board of Commissioners will meet twice this week — both times to consider issues related to budgeting. On Thursday, March 26, at 5 p.m., the commissioners will meet in a workshop to continue planning for the budget for the next fiscal year, which begins on July 1. The meeting […]
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Catching up on seashore issues
These late March weeks promise to be quiet ones on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Pre-nesting closures for some birds are already up, and park staff members are reportedly busy working on the seashore’s response to legislation passed by Congress in late December. The seashore’s new superintendent, Dave Hallac, has promised public meetings in mid-April […]
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BOC chairman sends another letter on Dare County gas prices
Bob Woodard, chairman of the Dare County Board of Commissioners, has sent a second letter to state Attorney General Roy Cooper asking for him to investigate gas prices in Dare County. Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Justice said this week that the department’s Consumer Affairs Division continues to investigate the complaint. Woodard […]
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A whole lot of shaking going on
By IRENE NOLAN I was sitting at my desk in my office on Monday afternoon around 4:30 when the door out to the porch startling rattling and shaking. It was a sunny, mild day with no wind to speak of. The house was quiet and the noise got my attention. I watched and listened for […]
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