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- Turtle center seeks gill-net ban (Tuesday, March 02, 2010)
The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center last week filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking a ban on gill nets in state waters.
- Regulators reject ban on gill nets (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)
State fisheries regulators rejected a proposed ban on large mesh gill nets used for flounder fishing, but adopted other restrictions Thursday to reduce the incidental capture of sea turtles in fishing nets.
- Citations tell part of the story (Wednesday, February 17, 2010)
The National Park Service released the 2009 annual reports on protected species management, progress of the negotiated rule-making process, and law enforcement management actions and activities at Cape Hatteras National Seashore on Feb. 2.
- Most ferry routes resume normal operations (Thursday, February 11, 2010)
Cedar Island-Ocracoke route running amended schedule today
- Runs at three ferry routes suspended; more could halt as day progresses (Wednesday, February 10, 2010)
High winds affecting safe crossing of waterways MANNS HARBOR - The North Carolina Department of Transportation's Ferry Division has suspended ferry operations at Ocracoke, Swan Quarter, Cedar Island and Pamlico River due to extremely high winds.
- Oh, it's a taxing situation (Tuesday, February 09, 2010)
The Dare County Shoreline Management Commission will convene at 3 p.m. on Feb. 16 in the Kill Devil Hills Town Hall for its first meeting since May 2008, according to the commission's website.
Features from obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com
- Royal doings: Rendezvous helps sweep away winter blues (Tuesday, March 02, 2010)
The annual Elizabethan Rendezvous Caberet at Pamlico Jack's on Feb. 27 was an evening of expected high-quality entertainment, great food, loud laughter, and as always, a few surprises.
- Outer Banks History Center exhibit to open March 5 (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)
A 1960 sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Charlotte, Richard Petty and Miss Winston celebrating a mid-1970s victory at North Wilkesboro Speedway, destruction at Kitty Hawk following the March 1962 Ash Wednesday Storm.
- League of Women Voters to host program about wind power (Tuesday, February 16, 2010)
The League of Women Voters of Dare County will present a program on the prospects and impact of wind power on the Outer Banks at 7 p.m. on Feb. 25 at the Kill Devil Hills Town Hall.
- Eure awarded Fourth Annual Living Legend Award (Tuesday, February 09, 2010)
The Land of Beginnings Festival has announced that Glenn Eure, generous and talented Outer Banks artist and supporter of the arts has been chosen to receive the fourth annual Living Legend Award to be presented at the Community Luncheon on Monday, April 12, at the Wright Brothers Memorial Pavilion.
Entertainment from obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com
- Lassiter wins song-writing contest (Tuesday, March 02, 2010)
Frisco businessman Wes Lassiter won the Kinston Winter Bluegrass Festival's song-writing contest last weekend.
- Sax appeal on display at the Forum (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)
The New Century Saxophone Quartet demonstrated the success of Adolphe Sax's invention: He wanted to create the most versatile brass instrument - and the loudest.
- Dare County libraries host music program (Tuesday, February 16, 2010)
Join musician and lecturer Billy Stevens for the all-new program "Discovering Elvis: Tracing Traditions to the Soul of the King."
- Then and Now photo contest now underway (Tuesday, February 09, 2010)
The Land of Beginnings Festival has announced the start of the premier Then and Now Photo Contest. The contest challenges photographers to capture from a current perspective, the modern view of several historic Outer Banks locations.
