The contractor for the removal of the Frisco (aka Cape Hatteras) Pier has enlisted some heavy duty equipment to tackle the underwater pilings that remain close to shore, and to adapt to the rough weather that has been prevalent in the past few months. Using a large piece of equipment called a custom modified excavator […]
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The National Park Service and the North Carolina Beach Buggy Association joined forces on Saturday, April 21, to perform an island-wide clean-up of popular beach spots and local ORV ramps on Hatteras Island. “The NCBBA hosts several beach clean-ups per year, and they’ve been doing this for more than three decades,” said Cape Hatteras National […]
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On a sunny and breezy Saturday, a crowd of hundreds cooled off under a shaded tent in front of the Portsmouth Island Methodist Church as history professor and grandson of Dot Salter Willis, David Quinn, shared his grandmother’s thoughts on life in Portsmouth village. “My grandmother did not like Portsmouth Island to be called a […]
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By Joy Crist Hatteras village residents will want to head to the polls on May 8, as there?s a special referendum on the ballot that?s been a long time in the works. The ?Pathway Referendum? will appear on ballots for Hatteras village residents only, and is a special ?for? or ?against? question that asks residents […]
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The National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced the changes to its suite of forecasting products for 2018, which are the online tools that forecasters, officials, and the public use to track and gauge the intensity of incoming tropical cyclones. Hurricane season begins on June 1, but the NHC makes tweaks and adjustments to its online products […]
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U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) personnel from Elizabeth City to Hatteras Inlet came together in the tri-villages on Thursday to clean and uncover the gravesites of generations of lifesaving heroes. The crew of roughly 65 personnel represented all ranks and a total of seven units, and their goal was to clear out and honor a collection […]
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The juvenile bull shark population is on the rise in the western regions of the Pamlico Sound, per a recent study that utilized combined data and studies from the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, East Carolina University and Simon Fraser University. Fully grown bull sharks have a wide migratory range along the coastline, but tend […]
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Beach-goers were surprised on Wednesday to encounter an unusual beach bum just off of Ramp 27 – a seal that had found a high and dry stretch of sand close to the dune line. The seal was gone by Thursday morning, but spent a good chunk of time relaxing and cleaning his whiskers, according to […]
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Due to a wind shift to the north-northeast, which fits the requirements for a prescribed burning operation on the south end of Pea Island, the firing operation got underway on late Wednesday morning within the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. Prescribed burns within the refuges serve multiple purposes, depending on the time of year. Generally […]
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By JOY CRIST At a public meeting with the Dare County Board of Commissioners (BOC) in March, a number of controversial topics with varying viewpoints were brought to attention (i.e., beach nourishment.) Speakers would head to the podium to share their thoughts with the BOC, and were met with applause, the shaking of heads, […]
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