Superintendent of the National Park Service Outer Banks Group, Barclay Trimble, announced last November that because of continuing cuts to the NPS budget, the seashore would see cuts in services to visitors this year and among them would be the elimination of lifeguarded beaches. At the time, seashore officials noted that with the cuts proposed […]
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USFWS amended compatibility determination for emergency beach nourishment is now available
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released an amendment to the S-Curves Beach Nourishment Compatibility Determination for one-time nourishment at the S-curves on Highway 12 in the Peal Island National Refuge. In it, refuge manager Mike Bryant has found the project “compatible” with uses of the refuge with […]
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Sheriff’s Office seeks information on century-old discarded gravestones
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The Dare County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in finding information on pieces of very old gravestones that were found discarded in the dumpster at the Frisco Bathhouse. The report came in Friday, March 21. Sgt. Doug Oberbeck said that office needs information on who may have […]
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Changes coming to health care facilities on Hatteras and Ocracoke
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Both the Hatteras Village Medical Center and the Ocracoke Health Center will see some changes in operations this spring. The Hatteras center will see a change in the health care provider, and the Ocracoke center will have expanded hours, but will no longer have an after-hours, on-call provider. The […]
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Rx for an aging bridge: Frequent checkups
All eyes have been on the aging Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet for the better part of the past two decades as the North Carolina Department of Transportation and other federal and state agencies figured out how to replace it. However, concerns about Hatteras Island?s only land link have soared since DOT closed […]
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Good morning, Hatteras Island!
In the pre-dawn darkness on a frigid Friday morning, a small group of people began gathering at a county-owned building in Buxton. The folks were all board members and volunteers who have been working as hard as they possibly could for months now to bring us something really special for our community ? Radio Hatteras. […]
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Thoughts on a wintry day
The headline on this blog could just as well have been ?Blah, blah, blah, and blah? because that?s the kind of winter we?ve been having.Of course, everything is relative, and many of our readers to the north and west have had it much worse, but everything is relative. Most locals agree that the winter has […]
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Highway 12 in Frisco reopens to through traffic
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Just 24 hours after it closed for the North Carolina Department of Transportation to repair a culvert at Peter’s Ditch in Frisco, Highway 12 reopened to through traffic just after dark this evening. As had been planned, the highway was shut down at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28, […]
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Will the circle be unbroken?
There are loved ones in the gloryWhose dear forms you often miss.When you close your earthly story,Will you join them in their bliss? CHORUS: Will the circle be unbrokenBy and by, by and by?Is a better home awaitingIn the sky, in the sky? According to Internet sources, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” is a popular […]
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Koru Village purchases Avon Pier property
Koru Village in Avon has purchased the Avon Pier property from EWN Development Co. Inc., which is owned by Ed Nunnally. The property is directly across Highway 12 from Spa Koru and almost adjacent to the Beach Klub, which the Koru Village opened in 2012. In a news release on the purchase, Koru Village said […]
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