The Dare County Board of Elections will operate two one-stop absentee voting sites for the Dec. 7 referendum on serving liquor by the drink in restaurants and other venues in Hatteras Township, which includes the southern villages of Buxton, Frisco, and Hatteras. Only registered voters in the three villages affected can vote in the referendum. […]
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This week on Hatteras and Ocracoke has already been pretty much of a wash-out, and it’s not likely to get much better until Friday. The watches and warnings are flying out of the National Weather Service in Newport, N.C., but John Cole, warning coordination meteorologist, says a tropical storm watch or warning is not in […]
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The Dare County Sanitation Department will be conducting a large household pick-up for residential customers only. No commercial debris will be picked up. The schedule is: Sept. 30, Thursday. Manns Harbor, East Lake, Stumpy Point Oct. 5, Tuesday. Hatteras, Frisco, Buxton Oct. 6, Wednesday. Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, and Avon Oct. 7, Thursday. Southern Shores Oct. […]
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Boiled down to its essence, replacement of the decrepit bridge over Oregon Inlet comes down to building a new span at about the same place as the existing one. So why, after nearly two decades of planning, is the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge replacement project still stuck in a bureaucratic impasse? That’s one dilemma Assistant […]
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By Pat Garber “If such a place there be, an island in the sun, where horses free as spindrift run.” –Jeanetta Hennings, from her 1985 book “Conquistadore’s Legacy: The Horses of Ocracoke.” Thirty-three years ago, on the island of Ocracoke, a Banker pony mare retreated into the marsh grasses along the Pamlico Sound to deliver […]
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OCRACOKE– Eva Rella Williams Waller, 88, died Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 in SwanQuarter, N.C. Born in Ocracoke, she was the daughter of the late Jacoband Brittina Williams and was the widow of Rudolph K. Waller. Mrs.Waller is survived by a daughter, Kay Brelig of Ocracoke, and sevengrandchildren and six great-grandchildren. In addition to her parentsand […]
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Hatteras islanders may be voting again this year on the controversial issue of liquor by the drink in local restaurants and other venues. However, if the issue makes it onto the ballot for a referendum on Dec. 7, it will be only southern Hatteras islanders who will be able to vote and only establishments in […]
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By ANNE BOWERS Hurricane Igor created huge wave action all five days of the Hatteras Wave Jam 2010 last week. True, the waves were a major score, but the wind didn’t cooperate. This was the third annual Hatteras Wave Jam. Event organizer, Bill Bell of Nags Head, spent five months organizing this wave competition, and […]
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation has taken on the U.S. Department of Interior over its opposition to the current plan to replace the aging Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet. In a letter to North Carolina Sens. Kay Hagan and Richard Burr and U.S. Rep Walter Jones and four of his colleagues on Sept. 2, […]
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The sixth annual Day at the Docks on Saturday, Sept. 18, saw wonderful weather – blue skies and a northeast breeze – and the best turnout ever, according to organizer Lynne Foster. “We were really pleased with the turnout,” said Foster. “And the weather couldn’t have been better. I think there were more people watching […]
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