By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN A dead body in a bag was located this evening in Frisco by a person who was in the Village of Salt Creek, a secluded subdivision on the soundside of Hatteras Island between Frisco Rod and Gun and the Quarterdeck restaurant. Dare County Commissioner Allen Burrus confirmed that he […]
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It?s been more than a year since Defenders of Wildlife and the National Wildlife Refuge Association, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, filed a lawsuit to stop the Bonner Bridge replacement project. The lawsuit, filed on July 1 of last year in the U.S. District Court for North Carolina?s Eastern District, charged that the […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Dare County Sheriff’s Office investigators are asking residents of Hatteras Island and other Outer Banks locations for help with the search for a woman who has been missing since about July 4 when she was visiting in the Salvo area. According to a news release, the Sheriff’s Office was […]
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U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle is still with us, and we?ll find out later this month if he will continue to be with us going forward with litigation against the Park Service?s final ORV regulation. Boyle has set another status conference on a 2008 consent decree that settled a lawsuit against the Park Service […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN John Fletcher likes to tell a Chinese fable of an old woman and a tiger as it relates to his philosophy of government. Fletcher, 74, of Cedar Road, is the apparent new county commissioner from Ocracoke, beginning Jan. 3, having bested incumbent Darlene Styron, 45, in the May primary […]
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Hatteras and Ocracoke have been buzzing with talk of the stellar performance of West Virginia?s Democratic Senator, Joe Manchin, at Wednesday?s hearing in the Senate?s Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The committee took up a dozen Park Service bills, including S 2372, which would overturn the seashore?s final plan and regulation of off-road vehicle use […]
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Supporters of a Senate bill to set aside the National Park Service’s final plan and special regulation on off-road vehicles at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore found a Democratic friend today at a Senate committee hearing. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., took up the cause, admonishing a Park Service witness and saying that the agency had […]
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The Hatteras Island Ocean Center moved a step closer to reality on Monday night when the Dare County Board of commissioners unanimously approved an amendment to the Dare County zoning ordinance. The amendment adds piers to the conditional uses allowed in the C-2 H district. The ocean center would be located on 1.5 acres of […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Two visitors to the Outer Banks, a man and a woman in their 40s, died while swimming in the ocean in two separate incidents on Wednesday, June 20. Rip currents were implicated in both incidents. The first death occurred about 2 p.m. in Nags Head, south of Limulus Street, […]
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