The North Carolina Court of Appeals will decide in the weeks ahead whether the state Utilities Commission had the right to start regulating a barge and mainland parking lot tied to the Bald Head Island ferry. A dispute over that decision generated an hour of oral arguments Wednesday at the state’s second-highest court.
BALD HEAD ISLAND — The North Carolina Utilities Commission has asserted its authority over Bald Head Island’s parking and barge operations, half of the island’s…