The Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan Advisory Committee will meet at 6 p.m. March 6 at the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Washington regional office, 943 Washington Square Mall, Washington. The committee is assisting the Division of Marine Fisheries with development of Amendment 2 to the Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan, which could result in […]
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GUEST COLUMN: WOTUS Rollback: ‘No Wetlands, No Seafood’
by Morty Gaskill and Ryan Bethea As directed by President Donald Trump in 2017, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army on Dec. 11, 2018, signed a proposed rule revising the definition of “waters of the United States” addressing federal authority under the Clean Water Act. The agencies’ proposal is the […]
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Two Weeks After Cleanup, All Evidence of Frisco Shipwreck has Disappeared
Two weeks after volunteers worked to remove more than a mile of debris along the beach, all evidence of a shipwreck that occurred off of Frisco on February 4 is gone from the shoreline. The National Park Service (NPS), in conjunction with the U.S. Coast Guard and contractor Atlantic Coast Marine, removed remaining pieces of […]
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Hatteras Island CERT to Offer Basic Training Class
The Hatteras Island Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) be offering the CERT basic training class for anyone in the community who may be interested in attending. The training is designed to cover the following: • Disaster Preparedness • Fire Safety • Disaster Medical-Triage and Treating Life Threatening Injuries • Team Organization • Disaster Psychology • […]
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Sounding an Alarm on Homeowner’s Insurance
OBAR’s Willo Kelly rallies opposition to proposed 30% increase Homeowners on the barrier island portions of Dare, Currituck and Hyde Counties could face as much as a 30% hike in their insurance rates under a North Carolina Rate Bureau filing, Outer Banks Association of Realtors Chief Executive Officer Willo Kelly warned an audience of about […]
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New Buxton Day Use Area and Kite Point Access Scheduled to be Open by Memorial Day
Despite a forced delay caused by the federal government shutdown, parking areas at the new Buxton Day Use Area and at Kite Point are scheduled to be open by late May of 2019, per the Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s (CHNS) Chief of Maintenance, John Kowlok. Buxton Day Use Area The new parking area at the […]
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Fourth Annual Starry Nights: Exploring the World of STEM
Hatteras Island is home to some of the darkest skies in not only the state, but the country as well. From our unique vantage point, glimpses of remarkable constellations such as Orion’s belt, Taurus the Bull, and even the Pleiades can be seen on a clear night. Indeed, with the right tools, folks on Hatteras […]
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EDITOR’S BLOG: History of the Bonner Bridge, and a Look Back at Decades of Controversy
There has always been a public fascination with the bridge that spans Oregon Inlet. Hundreds of stories have been written about the new bridge’s construction since the project broke ground on March 8, 2016, and when the county and state celebrated the imminent completion of the replacement bridge via a February “Community Day,” an estimated […]
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Group to Honor Etheridge, Life-Saving Crew
Capt. Richard Etheridge, a slave who was raised on Roanoke Island and taught to read and write, was the nation’s first African-American keeper of a United States Life-Saving Service Station. The Pea Island Life-Saving Station, of which Etheridge was appointed as keeper in 1880, also made history as the only station with an all-black crew […]
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Official Ribbon Cutting for New Bridge Set for April 2
Though the Bonner Bridge replacement is slated to open to vehicular traffic within a matter of days, a formal “grand opening” and official ribbon cutting ceremony is set for April 2, with Governor Roy Cooper among the expected guests. NCDOT Public Relations Officer Tim Haas told the Island Free Press late last week that the […]
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