After having been closed down for almost three years, the Hatteras Village Medical Center will reopen in mid-November as a private, non-profit community-based corporation, run by a local board of directors. Earlier this week, the board signed off on a health care provider for the new center. She is Margaret Jazayeri, a 38-year-old physician’s assistant […]
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A coastal low brought high winds and torrential rains to Hatteras and Ocracoke islands yesterday, last night, and into today, but Highway 12 remained open. According to the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Facebook page, 8 to 10 inches of water covered both lanes of Highway 12 just south of the temporary bridge after this morning’s […]
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A low pressure area off the southeast coast will move slowly north as the week goes on, bringing moderate to strong northeast winds and a chance of minor coastal flooding on northern Hatteras Island. According to the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Facebook page, Highway 12 was open and passable in the area of the S-curves […]
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A crowd that Park Service Hatteras District Ranger David Carter put at 100 to 150 people marched peacefully down Lighthouse Road, past barricades, and out to the closed beach at the site of the old Cape Hatteras Lighthouse about mid-day on Saturday, Oct. 5. There were no incidents, Carter said, and after milling around on […]
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Here on Hatteras and Ocracoke in recent years we?ve had more than the usual number of reasons to feel that we are under siege by forces beyond our control. For the last three years, we?ve seen hurricanes take out our fall shoulder season. Two ? Earl and Irene — wiped out the important Labor Day […]
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By all accounts, the third day of the federal government shutdown that has closed the beaches and other facilities at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore was uneventful again. Although all beaches and parking areas are technically closed to the public, folks continued to park at many and walk over to the beach. Again, they were […]
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With only hours to go for Congress to reach an agreement on a continuing resolution to keep the U.S. government operating, a total shutdown of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore is looming large. If there is no agreement by midnight tonight, National Park Service staffers will come to work in the morning to secure and […]
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This is the third in a series of blogs that will look at the finances of the various environmental activist groups that are involved in lawsuits that have had and will have a profound effect on our islands. We will look at Form 990, the form that non-profit, tax-exempt organizations must file with the Internal […]
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The Dare County Republican Party has chosen Walter “Wally” Overman of Skyco to replace the late Richard Johnson on the Board of Commissioners. According to a media release from the party, Overman was chosen at a meeting on Sunday, Sept. 22. The release called Overman, “a strong conservative with an impressive resume highlighting a lengthy […]
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The National Park Service today closed Cape Point to off-road vehicle access because of a turtle nest about to hatch. The closed area begins about two-tenths of a mile south of Ramp 44. The closure should be temporary – about a week. There is pedestrian access. The turtle nest reached day 55 of the “hatch […]
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