Four Hatteras islanders arrived on Haiti last week to assess the needs after last month’s devastating earthquake of 17 church orphanages, overseen by a Haitian man, Mac-Onel Georges, whom members of The Church on Hatteras have worked with for several years. The islanders are church members John Head, Bob McBride, Dwight Burrus, and Johnny Wallace. […]

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Who is Brett Barley? Most everyone on Hatteras Island knows the answer to that question, but now the world surfing community wants to know about the kid who blazed onto the scene in the Volcom Pipeline Pro event in Hawaii. On Hatteras, 20-year-old Brett Barley of Buxton is the son of “Jimbo” and Suzanne, the […]

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 Upon hearing of this latest delay during discussions with North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), Dare County officials expressed extreme disappointment since a Record of Decision (ROD) was expected any day with a promise that construction would begin this year.  The most recent delay comes following a decision by NCDOT to alter the Preferred Alternative, […]

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The Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a report yesterday that was stingingly critical of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s enforcement of fisheries regulations. NOAA is the federal agency responsible for enforcing U.S. fishing laws and regulations. The report is the result of a seven-month investigation that was begun in mid-2009 […]

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….WITH VIDEO AND SLIDE SHOW ….WITH VIDEO AND SLIDE SHOW The journey of Serendipity, the “Nights in Rodanthe” beach house, resumed pretty close to on schedule on Monday morning, January 18, and once the hulking building got rolling it took just 22 minutes to get it to its new space down Highway 12. People lined […]

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….WITH SLIDE SHOW ….WITH SLIDE SHOW Jim Matyiko moved Serendipity off the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, Jan. 15, but not as far as he wanted to, and not as far as project general manager Mike Price kept telling onlookers the house would go. Through a long day of what appeared to be challenges for the […]

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Protected Areas Center, in cooperation with the Department of the Interior (DOI), has created a first-ever inventory of the nation’s marine protected areas.  This unique, comprehensive inventory catalogs and classifies marine protected areas within U.S. waters.  Thirty-two sites, including 21 units of the National Park system […]

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By JOE WARD By JOE WARD Michelle Bogardus, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s 26-year-old lead sea turtle biotechnician on Hatteras Island loves sea turtles. “They are really interesting animals,” she observed on a recent turtle patrol. “So different from other species. They are in one of the oldest groups of animals in the world.” But […]

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On New Year’s Eve, the Conner family capped off their year-long 50th anniversary celebration of their supermarket by hosting a block party in the store parking lot and drawing from 250 names to see which lucky customer would start the new decade one car richer. Several hundred people showed up to eat John Conner’s famous […]

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