Beginning May 1, the National Park Service Outer Banks Group will be providing scheduled public programs for the spring at Wright Brothers National Memorial, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Cape Hatteras National Seashore. These spring program schedules will run through May 27. Learn about the Wright brothers, their flight experimentation and success at the […]
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By ANNE BOWERS By ANNE BOWERS The now abandoned island of Portsmouth, which is accessible only by a 20-minute boat ride from Ocracoke or by air, celebrates its history once every two years by hosting a gathering of its surviving former residents and their descendants. About 500 people traveled from as far away as California, […]
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FRISCO– Mildred Sutton Tice, 72, died Monday, April 26, 2010 in a Chesapeake,Va., hospital. Mrs. Tice was born in Somers Point, N.J., thedaughter of the late Carl and Edith Verna Mason Sutton. Sheworked as a cashier for Food Lion and loved playing Bingo. Besides her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband,Howard Edmond […]
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The week of April 26 will be an important one for all who support access to the beaches of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The National Park Service is conducting a series of public meetings on the Outer Banks and in Raleigh and Hampton at which the public can speak or submit written comments on […]
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Two suspects have been apprehended in an investigation by National Park Service rangers into the fifth deliberate vandalism act of the 2010 season to resource protection areas within Cape Hatteras National Seashore. They are Daniel Hunt, 28, from Maryland and a local resident Brian Tillett, 34, of Rodanthe. The two men have been charged with […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN If you have noticed a lot of activity in recent days around the Frisco Pier, it’s because the owners, Tod and Angie Gaskill, are working on fixing up the pier house and are hoping that they can open part of the structure for business this year. This week, Angie […]
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By ROB TEMPLE By ROB TEMPLE Leave her, Johnny, leave her Oh leave her, Johnny, leave her! The voyage is done and the winds don’t blow And it’s time for us to leave her! —-An old sea chantey traditionally sung at the completion of a voyage. When I sailed the Windfall from her homeport of […]
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Oyster reef restoration, new green jobs, and a blue sky were all part of an Earth Day get-together on Spurgeon Stowe’s headboat, the Miss Hatteras, on Monday, April 19. More than 40 people gathered at Oden’s Dock in Hatteras village and prepared to climb aboard the boat and head out into Pamlico Sound. Their destination […]
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By SUNDAE HORN By SUNDAE HORN If you’ve been in the neighborhood of Books to Be Red on Ocracoke Island lately, you may have seen some local folks cavorting about on the Live Oak stage, exclaiming in iambic pentameter such lines as “The course of true love never did run smooth” or “What angel wakes […]
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The Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative is planning power outages next week in Avon, and Rodanthe, Waves, and Salvo for maintenance and upgrades for the Avon Substation. The work will require these temporary interruptions on electric service: Avon. Monday morning, April 26, from 12:05 a.m. until 2:30 a.m. and Friday morning, April 30, from 12:05 a.m. […]
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