Voters in the northern Hatteras Island villages of Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, and Avon will go to the polls on Tuesday, July 12, to decide whether they want mixed drinks in restaurants. The organizers of a petition drive in those villages turned in their signatures to the Dare County Board of Elections last week. On Monday, […]
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We may have dodged the bullet that aimed to place a toll on the free Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry. Democratic Rep. Tim Spear managed to get an amendment passed to the proposed Republican budget that would have added a toll for residents and visitors to travel to and from Ocracoke — $10 was the cost being tossed […]
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UPDATE: Cape Point is now closed to pedestrians also By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The National Park Service has now closed all access to Cape Point. The Point was closed to off-road vehicles on March 18, the earliest date so far. The closure came after piping plovers were observed exhibiting breeding […]
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Today?s blog is a roundup of short items that have been on my list to tell you about. They are: An article from a national website that a news colleague has nominated for stupidest story of the year. It names Dare County as one of the Top 10 American Ghost Towns of the 21st century. […]
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If you read the comments on this blog ? or on other Outer Banks message boards ? then you know Crotalus. Crotalus is, of course, his screen name. His e-mail is crotalus horridus, which is the scientific name of a species of rattlesnake. He?s been posting for several years now on blogs and message boards. […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Time has run out for the North Carolina Department of Revenue to petition the state Supreme Court for discretionary review of the Court of Appeals ruling in favor of the Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative regarding the payment of sales and franchise taxes from 2000 until 2009. Accordingly, CHEC’s board […]
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NPS preparing for possible government shutdown that will close seashore By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The National Park Service is preparing for a possible shutdown of government services tonight — Friday, April 8, at midnight. There has been only one brief public comment on the shutdown from the Park Service’s Outer […]
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Park Service is preparing for government shutdown By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The National Park Service is preparing for a possible shutdown of government services tomorrow night — Friday, April 8, at midnight. There has been only one brief public comment on the shutdown from the Park Service’s Outer Banks Group, […]
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National Parks Traveler, a magazine-style website that covers the National Park system and the National Park Service on a daily basis, had to backtrack today and issue a statement on an April Fools? Day story about the beach access situation at Cape Hatteras that was yanked from the site this morning after just a few […]
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The National Park Service last week announced that it has honored Outer Banks Group Superintendent Mike Murray with the Director?s Award for Superintendent of the Year for Natural Resource Protection. I spent the end of last week working on a blog, posted last Friday, on the delays in the seashore?s off-road vehicle rulemaking, which will […]
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