Ocracoke Health Center Up and Running
Ocracoke Health Center on Back Road, which sustained damage from Hurricane Dorian in September, recently reopened, a significant step in the village’s recovery.
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Southern Shores Considers Beach Project
Southern Shores is considering a town-wide beach nourishment effort in 2022 and the town council is looking into how to fund the about $15 million project.
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Group Rolls Out Marine Debris Action Plan
The first of its kind for the state, the North Carolina Marine Debris Action Plan released earlier this month is a coordinated effort to prevent and remove marine debris along the state’s coast.
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Narrower Rule Replaces Waters of the US
Trump administration officials announced Thursday the Waters of the United States replacement rule that opponents say will significantly roll back federal water quality protection.
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‘What Will You Tell Your Children?’
“I wonder: What will you tell your children was the reason to fail and leave them facing a climate chaos that you knowingly brought upon them? That it seemed so bad for the economy that we decided to resign the idea of securing future living conditions without even trying?” Seventeen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg posed these questions this week to world leaders at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
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Birders Count Portsmouth’s Avian Population
Ocracoke Observer’s Peter Vankevich, birders and National Park Service staff made their way to Portsmouth village to identify and count birds for Audubon’s annual Christmas Bird Count.
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Patsy Pond Trail Roadside Cleanup Set
Join Carteret Big Sweep, Crystal Coast Waterkeeper and Coastal Carolina Riverwatch the morning of Feb. 8 to clean up N.C. 24 at the trailhead of Patsy Pond Nature Trail in Carteret County.
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Open, But Work Continues at Springer’s Point
Repairs continue but Springer’s Point Preserve on Ocracoke Island reopened in December after being closed since Hurricane Dorian, the Coastal Land Trust announced Wednesday.
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Heritage Center Would Boost Pride: Mayor
Navassa Mayor Eulis Willis says the state’s first Gullah Geechee cultural heritage center planned for the former Kerr-McGee site in town would be a welcome source of community pride.
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Tree-mendous Effort On To Build Dunes
Volunteers with Better Beaches OBX, an environmental conservation group on the Outer Banks, place Christmas trees Saturday on the beach near Jeannette’s Pier. Donny King, owner and chef of Ocean Boulevard Bistro in Kitty Hawk, worked with Matt Potter, a restaurant owner in Virginia Beach, to coordinate the effort. More than two dozen trucks and trailers were used to haul 2,100 trees from Virginia and volunteers placed the trees to help rebuild dunes. Photo: Kip Tabb
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NC to Move Forward with Recovery Program
HUD has released details of the federal register notice that will allow the state Office of Recovery and Resiliency to develop a draft action plan for more than $542 million funding for Hurricane Florence.
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Bald Head Gets $3M for Sand Project
FEMA and the state have approved more than $2.9 million to restore Bald Head Island Beach, which was damaged during Hurricane Florence.
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NCDOT Looks For Input on 10-Year Plan
The N.C. Department of Transportation is looking for input from the public on transportation projects to be included in the State Transportation Improvement Program for years 2023 through 2032.
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NC 12, Channel Shoaling Concerns Escalate
Discussions during a recent meeting of the Dare County Waterways Commission indicate that persistent threats to the Ocracoke highway and north-end ferry dock have become more urgent.
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Grant Funds Available for Home Elevation
Eligible Hyde County property owners have until Jan. 24 to submit the common housing application for FEMA grant funds to be used to elevate their homes.
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Survey Seeks Input on Sunday Hunting
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is asking for input in the form of a survey to help the agency better understand how the public uses game lands.
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Study Sought for Third Bogue Banks Bridge
Officials in Carteret County have asked the N.C. Department of Transportation to do an express design for a proposed third bridge to Bogue Banks.
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Rule Change May Threaten Coastal Areas
The recent reversal of a rule that limited where sand from federally restricted coastal zones may be placed may help towns with beach renourishment but could also put sensitive resources at risk.
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NC Climate Change Council to Meet Jan. 22
The North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies is slated to present information on its climate science report when the state Climate Change Interagency Council meets Jan. 22 in Raleigh.
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Corps Funds Bogue, Topsail Sand Projects
The Army Corps of Engineers is providing more than $281 million for rebuilding beaches in North Carolina communities damaged by hurricanes Matthew and Florence.
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Bogue Banks Project ‘A Go’ for February
The $28.2 million Phase 2 Hurricane Florence sand replacement project for western Atlantic Beach, all of Pine Knoll Shores, a small part of Salter Path and a part of western Emerald Isle is expected to begin in early next month.
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Bill Would Require More Changes at DEQ
A legislative committee approved a draft bill Monday that would require the state’s environmental agency to make further changes to its organizational structure.
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Community Project Grants Deadline Jan. 31
Nonprofit organizations have until Jan. 31 to apply for the Outer Banks Community Foundation’s Community Enrichment Grants to benefit Dare County and Outer Banks communities.
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NEPA Redo Would Speed Drilling Approval
Donald Trump’s proposal to “modernize” the National Environmental Policy Act would fast-track the permitting process for infrastructure, including oil drilling off the N.C. coast.
