If you find the weather outside is frightful ? as in frightfully freezing ? you can plan a trip to some warm place, if you can find one, and you won?t miss out on comment periods or meetings on the National Park Service?s effort to formulate an ORV plan for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. […]
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Island Free Press has a new ad manager
Jordan Tomberlin is The Island Free Press’ new director of advertising sales. After several months of training, Tomberlin took over managing the newspaper’s advertising on Jan. 1, replacing Evan Ferguson. Tomberlin was born and raised in Burnsville in the mountains of western North Carolina and has been vacationing on Hatteras and Ocracoke islands for more […]
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UPDATE: The deal is sealed, and Serendipity will be on the move
The iconic beach house Serendipity has new owners and will soon be moved from its current location in Mirlo Beach in northern Rodanthe. No longer will the house be the first cottage on Hatteras Island that travelers see as they head south on Highway 12. Nor will it have the sweeping vista of empty beaches […]
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Crew is rescued from trawler still aground at Oregon Inlet
By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN A 77-foot fishing trawler that was stuck on the Oregon Inlet bar just east of the Bonner Bridge was freed last evening about 8:30 p.m. According to Ensign Caleb Peacock, public information officer for U.S. Coast Guard Sector North Carolina, the trawler Sheila Rene was towed by the 110-foot […]
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Taylorsville N.C. man wins Conner’s car giveaway
On New Year’s Eve, the Conner family capped off their year-long 50th anniversary celebration of their supermarket by hosting a block party in the store parking lot and drawing from 250 names to see which lucky customer would start the new decade one car richer. Several hundred people showed up to eat John Conner’s famous […]
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Myrna King Robke
AVON –Myrna KingRobke was born April 13, 1941 in Norfolk, Va., toJohnie L. King, Sr. and Lina W. King. She was thegranddaughterof Mary “Mamie” Meekins. She married Harvey Robke in 1963 and traveledthe world as a Navy wife. Myrna settled back in Avon in 1975. Uponreturning toAvon, Myrna spent 20 years working in realestate. She […]
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Francis Warren Meekins, Sr.
MANTEO– Francis Warren Meekins, Sr. died Wednesday, June 23, at his home inSunnyside on Roanoke Island. Born in Mooresville, N.C., onJune14, 1933, he was the son of the late D. Victor Meekins and the lateCatherine Deaton Meekins of Sunnyside. Hewas editor and publisher of The Coastland Times. He will be rememberedfor his love of North […]
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Wesley Rudolph Peele
MANTEO –WesleyRudolph Peele, 85, died Wednesday, Dec. 14, in Nags Head. Mr. Peele wasborn on Hatteras Island on July 12, 1925. Mr. Peele was acommercial fisherman and former trucking company owner and was also acharter boat captain from the late 1950s until his retirement in themid 1990s on the Martha Ann and the Honey. Mr. […]
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