This is a cautionary tale about the value of zoning to protect our property, our investment, and our lifestyle. On Hatteras Island, only three villages have zoning as most of us think of it — that is zoning that sets requirements for the use of parcels of land, such as residential, commercial, or industrial. They […]
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Hatteras Storytelling Festival is another winner
There were a wealth of stories told last weekend in Hatteras village at the second annual Hatteras Storytelling Festival. About 170 people came to the Hatteras Civic Center from Friday through Sunday, May 2-4, to hear tales from the island and eastern North Carolina from those who wrote about them to those who lived them. […]
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NCDOT is resurfacing Highway 12 in parts of Frisco and Hatteras
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The North Carolina Department of Transportation is repaving a section of Highway 12 in Frisco and another section of the road in Hatteras village as part its 2014 plan for resurfacing Dare County roads. This year’s Dare resurfacing contract was awarded to Barnhill Contracting for $1.22 million. Part […]
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Why you need to vote in the primary on Tuesday, May 6
You can?t have missed them ? all those candidate signs stuck in the ground in every village up and down Highway 12. But are you going to go to the polls on Tuesday, May 6, to vote? Probably not. But you should. This year?s North Carolina primaries on Tuesday and the general election on Tuesday, […]
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Is Bodie Island spit owned by the Park Service – or not?
(Editor’s Note: This article was first published on The Island Free Press website on March 19, 2009. It’s worth calling attention to it again since a state-created Oregon Inlet Land Acquisition Task Force met last Thursday and released a draft report to the General Assembly. The report says that the State Property Office has contracted […]
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The Economy and the Environment
If you live on Hatteras Island, you live in one of the most dynamic natural environments on the U.S. East Coast. And you also live in a very economically challenged community. Businesses in this tourism and fishing economy are seemingly constantly under siege by Mother Nature, federal regulators, and outside environmental groups that want to […]
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Where we are on beach nourishment for Hatteras
The issue of nourishing Hatteras Island beaches has been front and center on the social media this week with petitions to the governor and other officials and a claim that a breach or inlet north of Buxton is imminent. Islanders want beach nourishment to protect Highway 12, and property owners in especially threatened areas are […]
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The troubled debate about Bonner Bridge replacement
Last week, WRAL-TV, a Raleigh CBS station, weighed in on the contentious debate about replacing the Bonner Bridge, Hatteras Island?s only land link with the mainland, with a documentary entitled, ?Bridge over Troubled Water.? The documentary is very nicely photographed and written and focuses on three Hatteras islanders who rely on Highway 12 and the […]
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The case for community newspapers
Last night when I was watching television, a national cable-news show host paid homage to community newspapers at the end of her hour-long program. She was noting that she and other national news folks were reporting on the problems that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had with ?Bridge Gate,? the big traffic tie-up on the […]
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UPDATE: Frisco man charged in gravestone case
UPDATE: Frisco man charged in gravestone case On April 10, Dare Sheriff’s Investigator Doug Oberbeck charged the suspect in the defacing of gravestones from a Frisco grave site. Charged with defacing a grave site, a misdemeanor, was Leland Eyre Haller Jr., 59, of Frisco. He was charged on a criminal summons to appear in court […]
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