By SUNDAE HORN By SUNDAE HORN On Saturday, Feb. 6, during a nasty coastal storm, National Park Service personnel found 19 live stranded sea turtles on Ocracoke beaches and carried them to safety. “We had strong winds Friday night, and the high tides were up to the dunes,” said NPS biotechnician Jocelyn Wright. “The next […]
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Lady Hurricanes beat Manteo at home in second round of state playoffs …WITH SLIDE SHOW By JORDAN TOMBERLIN By JORDAN TOMBERLIN By JORDAN TOMBERLIN In sports, there are the games that you lose, there are the games that you win, and then, there are the games in which you triumph. It was a fight from […]
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By SUNDAE HORN By SUNDAE HORN Roanoke Island Animal Clinic in Manteo seems like any other veterinary practice with its waiting room full of dogs on leashes and cats in crates, its shelves of flea treatments and heartworm pills for sale, and the sounds of yips and meows coming from the examining rooms. Usually, the […]
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The Bodie Island Lighthouse is getting a much needed and long awaited facelift. The $2.8 million project to restore and refurbish the lighthouse got underway late last year and is expected to take about 18 months. When the restoration is finished, sometime in early 2011, the Park Service is planning to allow the public to […]
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A change in federal law effective today allows firearms in many national parks. People who can legally possess firearms under federal and state law can now possess those firearms in the national parks in that state. The new law was passed by Congress and signed last May by the President. It ends a Reagan-era law […]
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The National Park Service has provided the parties to the consent decree that settled a lawsuit against the Cape Hatteras National Seashore with its recommendations for 2010 pre-nesting closures to protect nesting shorebirds on the seashore beaches. Under the terms of the consent decree, the Park Service is required to provide these recommendations and maps […]
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Update on Swan Quarter and Cedar Island ferries The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division announces that its maintenance staff has repaired the Motor Vessel Pamlico. The Ocracoke-Cedar Island schedule is: • Departing Ocracoke at 7:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. • Departing Cedar Island at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. The Ocracoke-Swan Quarter schedule […]
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Dare County’s Web site, www.preservebeachaccess.org has posted a special, five-part series of interviews with Dr. Mike Berry of Chapel Hill on such issues as the “fiasco” of the consent decree, the lack of science involved in off-road vehicle rulemaking, and why the so-called “best available science” cited by environmental groups and the Park Service just […]
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Ocracoke Child Care earns five-star rating Ocracoke Child Care earned five stars – the highest rating – for the first time, after its recent state licensing inspection by the North Carolina Division of Child Development. The center is inspected and given a star rating every three years, and the last score they received was a […]
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Ocracoke Child Care earns five-star rating The ladies of the Ocracoke United Methodist Women met in the church’s renovated Rec Hall in late December to fill bags with candy, fruit, and peanuts for the distribution on Christmas Eve. Despite the frigid temperatures outside, it was toasty warm in the Rec Hall because of recent repairs […]
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