On Friday, April 28, a collection of local business owners and Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) representatives met at the Hatteras Realty Avon office to review the Commercial Use Authorization Program that allows for-profit businesses to conduct activities, tours, etc. in the National Seashore. The Seashore’s Commercial Services program permits businesses to provide visitor services […]
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A Senate bill focused on environmental deregulation changes, which includes the repeal of a 2009 law that bans the use of plastic shopping bags by Outer Banks retailers, was approved Monday night by the N.C. Senate in a 31-17 vote. The bill now moves on to the House. The repeal of the plastic bag ban […]
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The Buxton Beach nourishment project is slated to being in the next few weeks with a tentative start date of May 21. Visitors and residents may start to see equipment arrive in the next couple of weeks, as the contractor deposits staging materials at the old decommissioned Coast Guard Station parking area in Buxton. The project […]
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It’s been well documented that Hatteras Inlet has changed drastically in the past 10-20 years or so, and thanks to the internet, there is visible proof. Videos that utilize Google Earth’s Timelapse, (which creates a fast-moving series of images that chronicle how corners of the world have changed over the past 32 years), have surfaced […]
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Cisco, an 8’ 7” immature white shark and one of the stars on the global shark tracker website http://www.ocearch.org, has been pinged – or tracked – several times in the past 24 hours in the Hatteras Island area. In fact, on April 14 at 10:38 a.m., Cisco made a virtual appearance adjacent to the town […]
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By JOY CRIST It?s an announcement that many island residents have been looking forward to for a very long time – The signed MOA (Memorandum of Agreement) required to dredge the Connecting Channel is in hand, and work is slated to begin around the third week in April. It?s also an announcement that?s been a […]
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By JOY CRIST A new video with updates on the Bonner Bridge progress was released by Dare County on April 12th on their Government and Education Channel’s Facebook page. The update chronicles the latest projects that crews have been working on to complete the new Bonner Bridge as well as the Interim Bridge, which are […]
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It seems like only a day or so ago that islanders were shivering in cool temps and winds, or driving along a lonely NC Highway 12 past businesses that were closed for the season… In reality, it was more like a week. Just last Wednesday, folks were hunkered down for a strong rain and wind […]
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BY CATHERINE KOZAK For folks who?ve been around long enough, the ongoing lawsuit against the proposed north Rodanthe bridge might be just another frustrating chapter in the decades-long struggle to keep Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands? only highway passable.Back in the late 1990s, a mothballed N.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) panel that had earlier studied the […]
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The grassy exterior and entrance of the St. John United Methodist Church in Avon village has a few enticements that make visitors take a second look. There’s the original church bell from the 1800s, the wrap-around bench near the towering oak tree that’s covered with colorful handprints, and the recently added food pantry that’s stationed […]
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