A Coastal Flood Warning is in effect for Hatteras Island and the northern Outer Banks from 7:00 a.m. on Sunday until 2:00 p.m. on Monday, per an update from the National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City office. A High Surf Advisory is also in effect from 8:00 a.m. on Sunday through 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday for […]
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By Rachael Graf, Community Engagement Coordinator, Outer Banks Forever Since last October, Outer Banks Forever, the official nonprofit partner of the three Outer Banks national parks, has been working with the National Park Service and the local community to create a new experience at Cape Hatteras National Seashore: the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Pathway. Each year, […]
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This is comet C/2023 P1 (Nishimura). It was discovered on August 12, by Japanese astronomer Hideo Nishimura. He discovered it as an unexpected deep space object in a series of images he had taken. C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) is believed to orbit the Sun every 430 years and had a visual magnitude of +5.9 when I […]
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May 28, 1955 – September 23, 2023 KITTY HAWK — Deborah Ann Burden, 68, of Kitty Hawk, passed away peacefully on September 23, 2023. Deb was born on May 28, 1955, in Pennsylvania to Michael Kuntz and Betty Mae Pelo Kuntz. Her family moved to northern Virginia, where she met and married her sweetheart, Chip. […]
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January 4, 1948 – September 28, 2023 WANCHESE — The commercial fishing industry has lost one of its biggest advocates, James Alan Ruhle, Sr., at the age of 75. Twenty-one weeks to the hour after his bride, he set out for the last time on the morning of September 28, 2023. Born in Oceanside, NY […]
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2023 will end up being the second or third busiest year on record for nesting sea turtles within the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS), with a total of 377 nests reported as of the end of September. 2019 has the highest number of nests recorded within CHNS by far with 479 nests, but 2022 boasts the second-highest […]
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Minor to moderate coastal flooding is possible again this weekend and early next week, per a Friday morning update from the National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City office. Strengthening and persistent northeasterly onshore flow will develop this weekend, and will linger into next week. This will occur in tandem with the peak of the current king […]
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The Community Foundation has awarded $94,873 in Community Enrichment grants to eight nonprofits to support causes that include a new dental clinic, education for community leaders, recreation for all, the arts, people with disabilities, and older adults. An additional 40th Anniversary grant for $40,000 was awarded to Interfaith Community Outreach for substance abuse prevention and […]
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Story by Sam Walker, WOBX and Joy Crist, Island Free Press As another government shutdown looms at 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, the impacts on the Outer Banks’ most visible federal agency – the National Park Service – will depend on how long the Congressional impasse lasts and whether steps are taken by The White House to limit […]
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Dare County Clerk of Superior Court Dean M. Tolson has announced that all jurors in Group A that were summoned to Dare County Criminal Superior Court beginning on Monday, October 2, 2023, are now to report on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, at 9 a.m. in the Jury Assembly Room.All jurors in Group B that were […]
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