BY CATHERINE KOZAK BY CATHERINE KOZAK The fight over winnings in last month’s 2010 Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament continues after attorneys and representatives of the disqualified boat owners and the tournament locked horns and didn’t budge during an informal meeting this week.   The fight over winnings in last month’s 2010 Big Rock Blue Marlin […]

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By IRENE NOLAN Monday is the last day for the public to comment on the Environmental Assessment of the Bonner Bridge replacement project that was released in May. The North Carolina Department of Transportation conducted public comment meetings in Dare County in early July and will close the comment period on Aug. 9. Details on […]

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 It was a clear morning in Ocracoke. Breezes were light, and it was already near 80 degrees as workers bustled in and out of a white Ryder truck filled with fireworks near the south ferry docks in the village. Firefighters preparing for the July Fourth show planned for that evening were in good humor as […]

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There is still no official winner in last week’s Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament. Almost $1 million in prize money is riding on whether a mate on the Hatteras-based Citation, the boat that caught a record-breaking blue marlin that should have taken the top prize, had a  North Carolina recreational fishing license, which is required […]

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By CATHERINE KOZAK By CATHERINE KOZAK Twenty-one years since its formal inception, the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum will soon be the recipient of an actual shipwreck — an impressively historic one. The wreck discovered recently in Corolla, possibly as old as the 1607 Jamestown settlement, is expected to be trucked down Highway 12 to […]

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