The North Carolina Division of Coastal Management has paused its review of proposed increases to training activities and operations in a military range complex that straddles parts of Carteret and Pamlico counties.
Carteret County
Coastal Federation plans cleanup at Hoop Pole Creek
Volunteers are needed for the project set for 10 a.m.-noon Wednesday, Oct. 21, at the nature preserve in Atlantic Beach.
Carteret to collect household hazardous waste Saturday
Residents may bring small quantities of common household hazardous items, including cooking oil, automotive fluids such as gasoline, used motor oil or antifreeze, lawn and garden pesticides, batteries, and paint Saturday to the county’s health department in Morehead City.
Volunteers needed for Cedar Island shoreline, habitat project
The North Carolina Coastal Federation and Carteret County invite past and prospective volunteers to help protect a Cedar Island shoreline, one plant at a time.
Hearing set on proposal to add military training ops in Carteret
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point’s proposal includes adding and increasing training activities and operations within the base’s range complex, and expanding restricted water areas.
NOAA gets $64 million to build new lab; former staff ‘elated’
Dr. Bud Cross, a longtime director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s historic Beaufort Laboratory, says the recent announcement the a new facility would soon be built on Pivers Island came as “great news to all of us who have worked there.”
Cooler weather foreshadows welcome fall
A squall line moves quickly across the Newport River toward Bogue Banks and Onslow Bay in Carteret County Saturday afternoon, when the National Weather Service says the high in the Newport-Morehead City area reached 93. Temperatures Sunday and Monday were cooler, in the mid- to upper-80s, but highs in the 90s are forecast to return later this week, and fall begins in two weeks. Photo: Dylan Ray
NOAA’s Beaufort Lab to get new facility
NOAA’s Beaufort Laboratory on Pivers Island is getting a new multi-million facility, the agency announced Thursday.
Nature reveals golden moment over Cedar Island
The sun sets behind a cloudbank Saturday as shown from above the Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge off Lola Road on Cedar Island in Carteret County that was established in 1964 occupies 14,494 acres on a peninsula jutting into southern Pamlico Sound, with N.C. Highway 12 slicing through and the 5,500 acres the state conserved in 2019 just to the east. Both offer opportunities to immerse one’s self into nature, such as hiking, paddling, birding and nature viewing, as well as numerous other activities. Photo: Dylan Ray
Marines to conduct training throughout remainder of August
Residents in areas near Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and its outlying airfields in Carteret and Pamlico counties and BT-11 in Pamlico Sounds can expect to hear aircraft and occasional explosions.
Amid moratorium hits, misses, shellfish growers seek leases
Latest in our series: As tensions grow among various users of public trust waters over site selection for North Carolina’s growing shellfish mariculture industry, new lease applications filed with the state would cover a combined 55 acres of bottom and water columns in six counties.
Squalls on the horizon, from way up high
Humidity fills the air west of the Jonathan Robinson Bridge, creating a series of summer squalls that shower eastern Carteret County. Forecasters with the National Weather Service on Tuesday advised of hazardous weather conditions, particularly for eastern Carteret County, Ocracoke Island and Hatteras Island with scattered strong to severe thunderstorms possible late Tuesday in advance of a cold front. Photo: Dylan Ray
NCSU, Carteret college OK aquaculture transfer agreement
North Carolina State University and Carteret Community College have signed an agreement designed to create a streamlined transfer pathway for students seeking to earn bachelor’s degrees in fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology.
Sunny surveillance
A lynx spider covertly watches as a pollinator bee forages on a sunflower blossom in a garden near Russell Creek in Beaufort. Photo: Dylan Ray
Audit reveals hundreds of potentially contaminated landfills
A state audit released Monday found that more than three-quarters of almost 700 identified landfill sites where municipal solid waste disposal occurred without regulatory oversight have never been investigated by state environmental regulators.
Pine Knoll Shores aquarium readies for ‘Birthday Splash’
With the North Carolina Aquariums celebrating 50 years in 2026, Coastal Review talks with Jay Barnes, the former Pine Knoll Shores site director about the early days of the facility, which is hosting two celebrations Saturday for the anniversary.
