Do you remember what you were doing one year ago today? Residents of Hatteras and Ocracoke islands do. They remember all too well. One year ago today, we were glued to our televisions screens and listening to our weather radios. The monstrous Hurricane Irene was making its way across the Atlantic Ocean, and the bull?s […]
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Hurricane Irene: A reporter’s look back after a year, Part 1
Even by Hatteras standards, Hurricane Irene, which hit the Outer Banks on Aug. 27 of last year was a real monster of a storm that even now continues to affect the island. As the first anniversary of the storm approached, I took a moment to reflect by reviewing notes I kept beginning with the evacuation […]
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Hurricane awareness town hall meeting will be Sept. 14 in Hatteras
The National Weather Service in Newport, N.C., Dare County, and The Island Free Press will host a hurricane awareness town hall meeting on Friday, Sept. 14, from 11 a.m. until about 1 p.m. at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras village. The meeting is part of the Day at the Docks, a celebration […]
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Waiting on the judge
It shouldn?t be too long before we know whether U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan of the District of Columbia will preside over the Cape Hatteras Preservation Association?s lawsuit to overturn the National Park Service off-road vehicle plan and final rule at Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The alternative is that he will transfer the case […]
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UPDATE: Summerfield extradition hearing is Friday
A first court appearance for Nathan Summerfield, the man charged with the murder of Ohio mother Lynn Jackenheimer on Hatteras Island during the July 4 holiday week, is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 17, in the Medina Common Pleas Court in Medina County, Ohio. The hearing is to address the extradition of Summerfield, 27, back to […]
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UPDATE: Man accused of murdering Ohio woman on Hatteras is captured
The man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend, an Ohio mother of two, while they were vacationing on Hatteras Island was arrested this morning by law enforcement authorities in Ohio. At a late morning media conference, Peter Elliott, chief U.S. marshal for the Northern District of Ohio, said Nathan Summerfield, 27, was taken into custody about […]
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UPDATE: Defendants and intervenors respond to CHAPA’s objection to Boyle transfer
The federal defendants and the defendant-intervenors have responded to the Cape Hatteras Access Preservation Alliance’s objection to transferring its lawsuit over the National Park Service’s final off-road vehicle plan and special regulation. On July 26, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan of the District of Columbia said he was inclined to transfer the case from […]
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News of signs and scenic byways
Some Dare County business owners are very unhappy that Dare County has finally started enforcing its long-standing sign ordinance. ?Doing this the year after Hurricane Irene and in the middle of the season is just plain dumb,? said one business owner. County Planning Director Donna Creef sent a letter to business owners in February to […]
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UPDATE: CHAPA objects to transferring lawsuit to Boyle’s court
The Cape Hatteras Access Preservation Alliance on Monday filed a 17-page brief objecting to a Washington, D.C., judge’s announcement that he is inclined to transfer its lawsuit over the National Park Service off-road vehicle plan and final rule to U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle in the Eastern District of North Carolina. CHAPA filed the […]
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UPDATE: CHAPA objects to transferring lawsuit to Boyle’s court
The Cape Hatteras Access Preservation Alliance on Monday filed a 17-page brief objecting to a Washington, D.C., judge’s announcement that he is inclined to transfer its lawsuit over the National Park Service off-road vehicle plan and final rule to U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle in the Eastern District of North Carolina. CHAPA filed the […]
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