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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Rangers and maintenance staff from the National Park Service (NPS) recently embarked on a project to remove the scattered asphalt that has appeared along the Old Lighthouse Beach in Buxton. Photos that were posted on Facebook showed before and after shots of the shoreline, with large chunks of piled asphalt removed from the final landscape. […]
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The famous house from the 2008 movie “Nights in Rodanthe,” (based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Sparks), is up for sale, and listing agent Frank Jakob of Cape Hatteras Realty & Construction says that it’s already garnering a ton of attention. “We’ve had calls from all over the world, and at […]
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A month of nor’easters can lead to great things when the weather clears, and throughout Hatteras Island, consistent northeast winds mean that shipwrecks which are often covered during the summer months are once again exposed. The G.A. Kohler , which is one of the most visible wrecks in between Avon and Salvo, has resurfaced to […]
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Video footage shared by the Coastal Studies Institute and released by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) gives an inside look on the examination of the shipwreck that was recently identified in Oregon Inlet. The DOT partnered with the University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute to study what is known as the Pappy’s […]
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The 2.4 mile Jug Handle Bridge project, which will bypass the area north of Rodanthe known as the S-Curves, is quietly gearing up for a June 2018 construction start date. “We’re doing a lot of behind the scenes work right now, such as permitting and right of way acquisitions,” said NCDOT Public Relations Officer (Ferry […]
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By CATHERINE KOZAK When I first traveled through Texas in the 1980s, I visited Galveston, an old Gulf Coast town not far from lovely San Antonio. Naturally, considering the blistering humid heat of the Texas June day, I wanted to take a dip in the Gulf of Mexico. Wading in, I was immediately struck by […]
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The Dare County Board of Commissioners (BOC) heard from the public on a wide range of issues at a well-attended community meeting on Tuesday evening. The casual forum enabled folks to step up to the microphone to bring issues or questions to the commissioners’ attention, and topics ranged from beach nourishment in Buxton and along […]
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The early March nor’easter caused damage all across Hatteras and Ocracoke islands, but in the town of Rodanthe, one of the storm’s local impacts was impossible to miss. After the waters and winds subsided, islanders noticed that the steeple at the Fair Haven United Methodist Church (UMC) – a local landmark on the oceanside of […]
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