On a warm autumn afternoon, Cape Hatteras Secondary School of Coastal Studies kicked off its annual Homecoming celebration with a parade from the school down the Back Road to Crossover Road and down Highway 12 back to the campus. Spectators lined the route, cheering on the Hurricanes football team, the cheerleaders, the marching band, and […]
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I don’t define myself as a breast cancer survivor, and it isn’t something I usually talk about because I am not unusual. In 1997, a few months after my bout with breast cancer, I attended the Manteo Rotary Club’s Christmas party where I learned that several friends there also were dealing with it. I did […]
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By IRENE NOLAN With only four more days to go in one-stop absentee voting, 541,693 North Carolinians had voted by yesterday, Tuesday, Oct. 26. The information was provided by the North Carolina Board of Elections and is posted on the Civitas Institute’s Vote Tracker website. Here is some more information about early and absentee voters, […]
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By CATHERINE KOZAK Bob Steinburg didn’t think it was right that a candidate for state office should go unchallenged in November’s election. Before he knew it, the Edenton Republican had filed to face off against incumbent Democrat Tim Spear for the District 2 seat in the North Carolina House of Representatives. Active for years in […]
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I’ve got to go a little different direction this time rather than trying to write a report. For weeks I feel like I’ve struggled to give a Hatteras and Ocracoke fishing report because of the lack of fish. Being clipped by hurricanes, tropical depressions, and coastal lows have made for a slow go of things. […]
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BY CATHERINE KOZAK A hard nor’easter was pounding the Outer Banks as Mickey Baker and Carmie Prete hustled home to Ocracoke Island that October night 20 years ago, intent on beating the heavy weather before Highway 12 flooded. As they crossed the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge, they spied something odd looming in the darkness, just […]
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By JOY CRIST On a crystal clear October Saturday, the famed “Nights in Rodanthe” house, Serendipity, celebrated a new milestone in its long journey from condemned rental home to Hatteras Island icon. The newly relocated and renovated Serendipity welcomed its first wedding on Oct. 23, a fitting event for a home that, thanks to Nicholas […]
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Officials talk about emergency plan in case bridge fails again BY CATHERINE KOZAK The planning process to replace the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge, begun soon after the ship hit the span 20 years ago, has turned out to be as difficult and unruly as some trips through Oregon Inlet. At the brink of approval of […]
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Twenty years ago in the early morning hours of Oct. 26, a dredge working in Oregon Inlet was torn from its moorings in a nasty northeaster and slammed into the Bonner Bridge The U.S. Coast Guard was notified about 1 a.m. from crew members of the Northerly Island who radioed that the dredge was dragging […]
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By ANNE C. BOWERS It was bizarre scene at the Cape Hatteras Secondary School for Coastal Studies when the girls took the field for a feisty game of tag football as the guys, dressed like cheerleaders, rooted for them from the sidelines. The Powder Puff Football Game took place at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. […]
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