Thirty contracts totaling $165.9 million have been awarded for highway and rail projects across North Carolina, including eight projects funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The N.C. Department of Transportation awarded the contracts to the lowest bidders, as required by state law. “These projects will provide much-needed work for people across North Carolina,” […]
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Lady Canes fall to Williamston in fourth round of playoffs By JORDAN TOMBERLIN By JORDAN TOMBERLIN By JORDAN TOMBERLIN The Lady Hurricanes suffered a tough loss in Greenville on Friday night, March 5, in their fourth-round playoff game against the Williamston Lady Tigers. The 27-0 Tigers beat the Lady Canes 61-38, in what was, by […]
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The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center last week filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking a ban on gill nets in state waters. The Topsail Island facility alleges that the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission, the state Division of Marine Fisheries, and division director Louis Daniel have violated the federal Endangered Species […]
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Friday night’s sectional final match between the Cape Hatteras Lady Hurricanes and the Jones Senior High Lady Trojans may not have been the most exciting game the Canes have played this year—or even this week—but they scored a decisive victory, nonetheless, beating the Trojans 50-46 and moving on to the fourth round of the NCHSAA […]
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The Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce, The East Carolina Bank, The Willey Agency, and Comfort Inn North, would like to know what issues business owners and managers have on their minds. They encourage owners and managers to take the time to answer this year’s Viewpoint 2010 Legislative Opinion Poll of questions that will be discussed […]
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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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