Two separate meetings scheduled for Monday, Feb. 25, at the Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo Community Building will address issues that are important to Hatteras Island. Newly elected state Rep. Paul Tine will host a Hatteras Community Coffee from 9:30 until 10:30 a.m. The purpose is to hear concerns and ideas from the people of Hatteras Island and provide […]
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Is snow in the forecast for Hatteras and Ocracoke?
Will there be snow on Hatteras or Ocracoke Saturday night? “It’s a possibility,” said Casey Dail, a forecaster at the National Weather Service office in Newport, N.C. Right now, she said, the forecast is for about a half-inch of accumulating snow tomorrow night, but it could be a little more, depending on the timing of […]
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A newsy week on the islands – ferries, new leaders, and surprises on the winter beach
The folks on Ocracoke Island were probably very happy today to hear that they will have the ferry to and from Hatteras back, probably late next week. According to a media release from the North Carolina Department of Transportation Ferry Division, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last weekend identified an alternate channel that can […]
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Winter beach yields some surprises this week
Islanders always enjoy exploring the winter beach on Hatteras and Ocracoke. The beaches are relatively empty except for a few other beachcombers and maybe a couple fishermen. And as you pick through the flotsam and jetsam along the tideline, you never know what you might find – a perfect shell or a piece of sea […]
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NPS releases 2012 protected species reports
The National Park Service has released its 2012 reports for protected species of birds, turtles, and plants in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Separate reports were issued for piping plovers, sea turtles, seabeach amaranth, American oystercatchers, and colonial waterbirds. The species seem to have fared well enough on the seashore last year, though the reasons […]
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A conversation with the new seashore superintendent
Barclay Trimble, the new superintendent of the National Park Service?s Outer Banks Group, which includes Cape Hatteras National Seashore, had his first formal meeting with local reporters yesterday. Trimble was named in August to replace Mike Murray, who retired last July 31, after 6 ? years as superintendent. Trimble came to the Outer Banks after […]
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Focus of Replace the Bridge Committee could be expanded to include Highway 12
A contingent of business owners from Hatteras Island showed up in force at the Jan. 22 meeting of the Dare County Board of Commissioners to talk during the public comment period of the meeting. On the agenda that evening was an item to create a special task force to address the problem of shoaling in […]
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Dare commissioners take cowardly way out on thorny issue
The Dare County commissioners let down their constituents at their meeting on Tuesday night. Their inaction on the request of Avon resident Mark Rawl to allow temporary seafood sales as a conditional land use under the county zoning regulations appeared, well, just plain cowardly. The commissioners took no action, effectively killing Rawl?s effort without even […]
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Sandbags and dunes are finished on Highway 12 at the S-curves
The last of 2,048 giant sandbags was laid on Monday at the S-curves in northern Rodanthe to protect the reconstructed Highway 12 in the area that was damaged by Hurricane Sandy in late October and several northeasters in November. Today, the last load of sand was delivered by dump truck from a sandpit in Avon […]
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Great white shark is a winter visitor to the seashore
A 16-foot great white shark has been a winter visitor to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in the past few days. The shark’s tracking beacon showed that it may have crossed through Ocracoke Inlet in Pamlico Sound on Monday afternoon and then headed north towards Hatteras. Today the 3,456-pound fish was hanging out off Cape […]
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