A rainbow reaches skyward from the Newport River as viewed from the marsh at Radio Island following Sunday showers. The island was formed by the placement of dredge spoils from an early channel-deepening project at the Morehead City port in the 1930s and takes its name from Carteret Broadcasting Co.’s WMBL, which began broadcasting in 1947 at 740 kHz. Photo: Mark Hibbs
Carteret County
The Down East way: Harkers Island to celebrate waterfowl
This weekend, Carteret County’s historic traditions — and food — take the spotlight with the three-day Waterfowl Weekend, including the 36th annual Core Sound Decoy Festival.
Division sinks trawler at artificial reef site off Cape Lookout
The vessel joins three others at the site 28 nautical miles south of Beaufort Inlet that is popular with fishermen and divers.
Belted kingfisher surveys its kingdom
A belted kingfisher surveys its surroundings from a perch, Nov. 14 at North River Preserve in Carteret County. Photo: Nick Green
Carteret libraries join ECU Digital Bridges access initiative
The Carteret County Public Library System has joined East Carolina University in a collaborative project aimed at improving access to digital technology and literacy for residents across 29 eastern North Carolina counties.
Beacon backdrop for the birds
The 1859 Cape Lookout Lighthouse reaches 163 feet skyward beyond shorebirds hunkered down recently on a jetty across the bay at the Cape Lookout National Seashore visitor center at Shell Point on Harkers Island. Photo: Dylan Ray
Structural damage forces closure of Beaufort Lab building
A building that housed employees with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Ocean Service Lab in Beaufort has closed after engineers determined the structure’s foundation is damaged.
Sunrise skiff
A fishing skiff anchored at the North River Bridge in Otway, in Carteret County, is nearly silhouetted at dawn recently. Photo: Doug Waters
Coastal Federation breaks ground on new soundfront center
The nonprofit organization hosted a groundbreaking Friday afternoon for its new Center for Coastal Protection and Restoration being built on Bogue Sound.
State Artificial Reef Program looking for advisers, input
Regional advisers and public feedback are needed to recommend materials and reef sites for enhancements in five areas over five years.
Sunset striations
Striations of clouds blanket the sky at sunset over North River in Carteret County recently. Photo: Dylan Ray
‘Rum Keg Girl’ in Beaufort’s Burying Ground: True story?
Stories persist that she comes out at night and runs around the cemetery, her own haunted playground, where gifts left at her grave sometimes mysteriously move around to different locations.
Special tour to give voices to Beaufort’s oldest residents
“Voices of the Past” guided tours set for Nov. 2 are to “bring to life the stories of those who have long passed and have been laid to rest in the Old Burying Ground.”
Spooky storefront apparition
Webs around a vent in the tiled storefront wall of the old, now vacant, M. Mann’s & Sons building in Newport create a ghostly appearance peering out slightly menacingly at passersby from the longtime home of the former C.M. Hill Hardware, where Chatham, East Chatham and Market streets all converge with the North Carolina Railroad Co. line and East and West Railroad boulevards. Photo: Mark Hibbs
Blackbeard’s shipwreck conservation lab to offer tours
N.C. Office of State Archaeology conservators and researchers are to explain the history of the ship during 90-minute tours on Nov. 2 of the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab in Greenville.
‘Dirty snowball’ swings by Beaufort, Earth
The faint tail of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS pointing away from the setting sun is visible Sunday evening over Taylors Creek in Beaufort. NASA says the “dirty snowball’s” appearance is “a once-in-80,000-years sight.” The comet believed to be from the Oort Cloud at the edge of our Solar System was expected to swing close by at about 44 million miles from Earth — its closest pass — on Saturday. Discovered in 2023, it is named for both China’s Tsuchinshan, or Purple Mountain, Observatory and an Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in South Africa. Photo: Mark Hibbs
