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Sexy flex | Coastal Review

2 days ago | coastalreview.org | Dylan Ray

Dylan Baker Ray was raised in Greenville. His love for photojournalism began in high school where Ray worked as a photographer and cartoonist for to the school paper. After receiving a degree in photojournalism at Randolf Technical Institute, he moved to the Crystal Coast to become the chief photographer and eventually photo editor during his 15 years at the Carteret County News-Times.
Coastal Commission rejects effort to drop rules lawsuit

1 week ago | coastalreview.org | Catherine Kozak

MANTEO — Amidst the tedium of a generally uneventful two-day meeting of the state Coastal Resources Commission last week, embers of prior tensions flared anew when Commissioner Jordan Hennessy contended that the panel had not properly authorized its lawsuit seeking to restore a protective environmental rule for Jockey’s Ridge. The commission voted 9-3 against a motion Hennessy had advanced to withdraw from ongoing legal battle against the Rules Review Commission.
Dare County board tables action on Buxton zone of influence

1 week ago | coastalreview.org | Kip Tabb

Reprinted from The Outer Banks VoiceAfter two hours of testimony from county officials and public hearing comments, a visibly frustrated Dare County Commissioners Chair Bob Woodard presented a motion to table any decision on an environmental zone of influence that borders Buxton Woods for 90 days, “so that we can study this and try to iron out exactly what we’ve been discussing.” The motion passed unanimously.
Secotan alliance event 'to bring Wingina out of the shadows'

1 week ago | coastalreview.org | Jennifer Allen

An Outer Banks nonprofit that was created to preserve traditional Indigenous principles embodied by a late-16th century Algonquian leader is concentrating on the roles of women during the organization’s annual two-day educational event scheduled for later this month in Dare County.
Morning stretch | Coastal Review

1 week ago | coastalreview.org | Mark Hibbs

Featured ImageDaddy longlegs, scientifically speaking, a member of the Leiobunum genus, stretches its legs recently on the leaf of a sweetbay magnolia, or Magnolia virginiana, a native species on the North Carolina coast. Often called harvestmen — there are at least 6,600 suborders of the species — and mistakenly identified as spiders, the insect is an arachnid that has been found everywhere on Earth except Antarctica. Photo: Mark Hibbs
Senate bill pushes for prohibiting, fining for balloon releases

2 weeks ago | coastalreview.org | Kip Tabb

Debbie Swick has been waging a single-handed campaign describing how dangerous a balloon is after it has been released. “I promise you, with every fiber of my being, helium balloons do not go to heaven,” she said and suggested alternatives. “Blow bubbles, plant a tree, scatter wildflower seeds,” the Southern Shores resident continued. “There’s so many other things that you can do besides releasing balloons,” adding, “I would not tell people not to celebrate.
Historian David Cecelski: Carolina coast still worth the fight

2 weeks ago | coastalreview.org | Jennifer Allen

RALEIGH — Historian David Cecelski didn’t mask the grief he felt while telling the “gruesome stories” littering eastern North Carolina’s past, or the mounting dread that those days will return and put the coast’s natural resources at risk of “plunder, pillaging and poisoning.”“This may not be the kind of keynote address that you’re used to,” the mild-mannered Carteret County native told a crowd of about 150 people during the first morning of the 2025 Coastal Summit.
Protective zone around Buxton Woods may be unenforceable

3 weeks ago | coastalreview.org | Kip Tabb

Reprinted from The Outer Banks VoiceSpeaking April 16 to a room of more than 40 concerned residents gathered in the former Buxton Volunteer Fire Station, Dare County Planning Director Noah Gillam addressed community concerns over the fate of a zone of influence district designed to protect Buxton Woods Reserve. The zone of influence is an area on the soundside of N.C. Highway 12 from Billy Mitchell Airport Road north to the Buxton and Cape Hatteras National Seashore boundary.
Hatteras windsurfing spot mirrors US-Canada tensions

3 weeks ago | coastalreview.org | Catherine Kozak

BUXTON – Just north of Cape Hatteras, businesses along a small stretch of soundside beach colloquially known as Canadian Hole have become a microcosm and barometer of a newly fraught international relationship. Windsurfers from Canada have reliably flocked to the Outer Banks since the 1980s, and they were later joined by kiteboarders when that sport took off in the 1990s.
Agencies set to spread word on mandatory harvest reporting

4 weeks ago | coastalreview.org | Jennifer Allen

The two agencies that enforce fisheries rules in North Carolina waters said they are ramping up their outreach to prepare commercial and recreational fishermen for the divisive mandatory harvest reporting laws that are to go into effect later this year. Starting Dec.