Buxton businesses took a beating last summer with the extensive beach resource closures, and it looks like this summer will be a repeat of last year?s scenario. Right now, the only beach in Buxton open to ORVs is four-tenths of a mile at Ramp 43. It?s a cul-de-sac with two-tenths of a mile open north […]
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Economic suffering on the islands
April 29, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 6
This letter to the editor, published this week, is from my friend Helen Hudson, who is the librarian at the Dare County Library in Hatteras village: ?April showers were often said to bring May flowers. May, 2009, will be bringing Hatteras Island residents a 12.8 percent increase in electricity costs, as well as a 6.5 […]
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Weekend report: Warm weather, heavy traffic, another closure, and Facebook
April 27, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan
Spring was finally in the air this weekend. It was what most islanders thought was the longest winter they could remember ? day after day of wind, cold, and gray skies. There were precious few of the warmer, sunny intervals that usually punctuate the winter months here. This weekend was the first this spring that […]
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A new look for the blog
April 23, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan
You will probably notice that my blog looks different today. That?s because the software we started with was giving us fits. So we have changed the software. This will make our Web masters happier ? and you, the readers, also. You will still have to sign in to post comments. However, if you have already […]
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Update on pedestrian access to Cape Point
April 23, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 8
The message today on pedestrian access to Cape Point by wading in the water around resource closure is, ?Yes, you can.? Yesterday, I wrote that the National Park Service would no longer allow pedestrians to wade in the water below the mean low tide line to reach the three-tenths of a mile of beach still […]
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Cape Point closed to pedestrians
April 22, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 3
National Park Service officials have closed pedestrianaccess to Cape Point. The decision will be announced in tomorrow?s Park Servicebeach access report. About two-tenths of a mile of beach just south of Ramp 44was closed to ORVs on April 14 to protect American oystercatchers exhibitingbreeding behavior. At that time, park officials said that pedestrians couldwade in […]
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Update on Cape Point access
April 20, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 1
The closure at Cape Point for American oystercatchers exhibiting breeding behavior was expanded today – from two-tenths of a mile to four-tenths of a mile. That’s double the size it was last week at this time. For now, folks can still wade below the mean low tide line to reach Cape Point, which is not […]
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What you need to know about beach access
April 17, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 1
The first thing you need to know about this summer’s beach access on the seashore is that there will be beaches open to ORVs. However, there will be some stretches of beach closed to both ORVs and pedestrians until the end of the nesting season – about August for birds and later in the fall […]
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Going To A (TEA) Party
April 16, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 6
Several dozen Hatteras islanders went to a party on Wednesday, April 15, at the new county office building in Frisco. The lunchtime gathering was a TEA party – as in Taxed Enough Already. It was scheduled for April 15, also known as Tax Day, and was, of course, a symbolic reference to the historic Boston […]
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Killing Fish for Fun Instead of Food
April 8, 2009 | Editor's Blog | By: Irene Nolan | 5
I hope all of you will read Susan West?s article on the Fishing Page about the bill recently introduced into the North Carolina General Assembly to give coastal gamefish status to red drum and spotted sea trout, also known as speckled trout. West writes: Red drum and spotted sea trout would be off-limits to commercial […]
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