By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN During the last week in May, the Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative mailed nearly 14,000 refund checks for sales tax paid by members on their electric accounts from the years 2000 – 2009, plus 8 percent interest. Refunds were first applied to any balances due and any remaining amounts were […]
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Firefighters continue to battle the Pains Bay Fire on the Dare County mainland. It is burning mostly on the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, but has threatened the village of Stumpy Point. The fire started on May 5 with a lightning strike and spread quickly in the first few days of gusty wind and low […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore has moved down on Dr. Beach’s Top Ten list of America’s best beaches for 2011. This year Cape Hatteras National Seashore beach ranks No. 5 on the list – down one from last year’s No. 4 spot. However, the beach, which has […]
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The National Park Service?s schedule for completing off-road vehicle rulemaking in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore continues to get pushed down the road. Under the terms of a 2008 consent decree that ended a lawsuit against the park by environmental groups, the final ORV rule was to be in place by April 1. That did not […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Hatteras and Ocracoke islands have largely been spared by the heavy smoke this week from the Pains Bay wildfire in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge on the Dare County mainland. However, that could be changing tonight. The fire was ignited on Thursday, May 5, by lightning. Other causes […]
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The big news for surf fisherman on Hatteras Island is the large bluefish that are being taken regularly from Hatteras Inlet up to Rodanthe. A few citations have been caught, which is not a normal thing in the spring months, as these fish will generally have a large head and slender bodies. The same fish […]
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Can you or can you not wade out to Cape Point in the water if the Point is open but the beach between the Point and the nearest ramp is closed for resource protection? It?s a question that has come up every year since 2008 when a consent decree settled a lawsuit by environmental groups […]
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Ocracoke teacher Charles Temple woke up this morning tired, happy, and $100,000 richer. On Friday night, he won the first-ever ‘Jeopardy’ The Teachers Tournament. Along with that came $100,000, as well as a guaranteed spot in the Tournament of Champions airing later this year. He was also just really, really happy that he no longer […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN On Thursday, May 12, Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative received two refund checks in settlement of the litigation with the North Carolina Department of Revenue over sales and franchise taxes paid under protest from 2000 – 2009. The refund for sales tax payments totaled $5,287,875.37 and the franchise tax refund […]
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Last year, the National Park Service predator management team removed a total of 594 animals. They were ?targeted? species and were removed to protect threatened or endangered shorebirds and sea turtles. The numbers are detailed in the seashore?s Predator Management Annual Report for 2010. The list of ?removed? predators includes: 130 raccoons 111 opossums and […]
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